The picture of adventure...
The Taxicab
Local Liverpool woman
sails around the world to Driver
inspire local young people
By Alan McStay ©
Local Liverpool woman, Lisa Pover, 28 has recently returned from a Ten-month full
The taxicab driver sits in his car
circumnavigation of the globe as a crewmember on the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race.
and waits for the calls from near and far.
The race which incorporates 35,000 miles of extreme ocean racing including braving the icy
He knows all the crooks,
conditions of the north Pacific, the energy sapping heat of the tropics, the mountainous seas he knows all the rooks.
of the Southern Ocean and the frustrating calms of The Doldrums is intended to give ordinary He knows all the bad roads,
people like Lisa the dream opportunity to achieve the extraordinary. he knows all the nooks.

Lisa was chosen by the Culture Company along with two other Scousers to take part in a
He knows all our sorrows,
single leg of the race and act as an ambassador for the city. However, when she realised
he knows all our joy.
there were no locals completing the whole race her adventure really began. She explains...
He knows all the girls

who are chasing the boys.
“I was simply a Liverpool cabbie making a wage just like any other person. However, in
He knows all our troubles
February 07, I entered a Culture Company competition with the prize of a single leg aboard
he knows all our strife.
Liverpool 08 yacht. You didn’t need to be a sailor, which I definitely wasn’t but had to be
He knows every man who
up for a challenge which I always am. During my training I noticed there were no locals
ducks out from his wife.
doing the whole race and decided I wanted to put that right. With just a week to go before
the race start I was talking to a local businessman who had got into the back of my cab and
after hearing my story he decided he wanted to sponsor me to do the whole thing”.
If the taxicab driver

told half what he knows,
That businessman was Michael Ryder and with his support Lisa, who has since become a
he would turn all friends
fully qualified Yacht Master, is in the process of setting up the Lisa Pover Trust. The Trust,
into bitter foes.
which acclaimed sailor and Clipper Chairman Sir Robin Knox-Johntson has kindly agreed
He would sow a small wind
to become a patron, aims to offer young people within the local community ‘Life Changing’
that would soon be a gale.
experiences just like hers, is currently in the process of raising the funding needed to send
engulf us in trouble
10 Liverpool people (18 plus) on the next race as part of a Round the World Liverpool
and land us all in jail.
Relay Team representing the city. In addition, it also aims to take local schoolchildren
to one of the ports to see the boats and the crew as a part of a special educational He would start up a story
programme. which gaining in force
would cause half our wives to sue for divorce.
To launch the Trust Lisa will be showcasing a Photo/Multimedia exhibition themed around
He would get all our homes
her experiences. The exhibition, entitled ‘Daring to be Different’ my journey from Taxi
mixed up in fright,
Driver to Ocean Racer, will have an educational program attached to it run by St Georges
and turn our bright days
Hall which offers kids (or adults) the opportunity to have some fun hands-on experiences.
into sorrowing nights.
The exhibition is open to the public from 10am - 5pm and started on 18th April 09 for 10
In fact he would keep
weeks at St Georges Hall, Lime Street. For further information on both the trust or the
the whole town in stew
exhibition contact Lisa Pover 07595 246 315 info@lisapovertrust.org www.lisapover.com
if he told but one tenth
the things he knew.
But silent he is if you pay him his fees.
Then he doesn’t know a thing about his ABCs
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