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BT GLOBAL CHALLENGE - NEW CREW MEMBER TO JOIN PAUSE TO REMEMBER Southampton (UK), Thursday 1st May 1997 New crew volunteers are busy packing their bags before flying out to Cape Town to meet their fellow team members. All of them are excited to be taking on the challenge of sailing in the penultimate leg, and yet apprehensive about joining their core crew members who have been together for 7 months and have sailed some 19,000 miles. Over the next two days, we shall be focusing on more newcomers to the BT Global Challenge. Susan Craggs will be replacing Geraldine O'Connor on Pause to Remember. Susan is 44 and lives and works in Ipswich, East Anglia. Susan only had three weeks notice that she had been selected as a legger and although a keen amateur sailor, confessed to "not having done anything like this before, I know it sounds corny but it really is the ultimate challenge. I have done lots of offshore racing, but this is completely different." She explains her last three weeks: "I had a phone call from The Challenge Business and it's been manic ever since, getting everything ready, sorting out work, home and trying to work out to ensure that I am fit as I possibly can be. The ethic of being on a charity boat feels great and I've had to summon up enormous reserves of courage to ask people for assistance as sponsors, and in order to get the kit I needed at such short notice. My local Debenhams store (Debenhams is one of the main underwriting sponsors for Pause to Remember) have been fantastic, providing me with several essential items and my local chandlers have been giving me discounts on everything and chasing around their suppliers to order in other items in time." Susan is not worried about being fit as she regularly works out in the gym, but she is however concerned "that I won't be able to pull my weight and make a real contribution. They are all experts and I am an enthusiastic amateur!" With Susan - a qualified physiotherapist - joining the crew, Pause to Remember now has plenty of medical expertise on board. She joins the fleet doctor Chris Price, veterinary surgeon Rebecca Haynes and dental surgeon Henry Pritchard. Pause to Remember is currently lying in 10th place overall after successfully arriving in Cape Town in 13th position despite her boom breaking during the 6,300 mile leg from Sydney. For updated information on the BT Global Challenge : Internet site : http//www.btchallenge.com Fax database : 0990 321123 (+44 990 321123 from outside UK) Recorded telephone information line : 0891 505550 (UK only) Public enquiry bureau : 01703 212124 (+44 1703 212124 from outside UK) Ceefax page 388 (UK only) |
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