I received a huge amount of help and goodwill from the Dartmouth community which I won’t forget,” he says. Following that first round-Britain adventure Henry


was selected to join the prestigious Artemis Offshore Academy – Britain’s centre of excellence for solo offshore sailing. He was one of only three to be chosen from 300 applicants. He was with the academy for four years and competed in four arduous La Solitaire du Figaro single-handed, multi-stage races. He was also part of the crew that achieved five world sailing speed records onboard trimaran, Phaedo3. This impressive CV helped Henry secure a coveted place on the United Nations team for the famous Volvo Ocean Race, formerly known as the Whitbread Ocean Race. Henry had watched the round-the-world race avidly as a child and always dreamed of being in the competition, which sees seven teams travel 45,000 nautical miles, this time in identical vessels. “Every boat in the race had to be exactly the same with no modifications,” explains Henry. What matters, he says, is the money that’s spent on the salaries of the crew: “The team that won spent about £20 million, we spent £10 million and came second to last”. Henry’s team consisted of five girls and five boys - the only boat to have a 50/50 mixed team - and the majority of them were under 30. They started in October 2017 and finished in July 2018 in sixth place. “We were actually last during the whole race, all nine months, until the final leg when we pushed it and got ahead. We were pleased with the result as we were the youngest team and it was


our first Volvo race. There is usually a huge amount of preparation that goes into the race but our crew was put together relatively late so we only had two months to get ready.” There are 11 legs; each lasts three weeks, and teams


in the race had to be exactly the same with no modifications,”


“Every boat


are given two weeks off between each leg to debrief, prepare for the next stage and deal with any boat repairs. Henry says a lot of the time was spent in gyms with personal trainers trying to bulk up and rebuild muscle: “We lost quite a bit of weight at sea because we couldn’t carry that much food as it would weigh the boat down, so we took the same freeze-dried food astronauts eat in space. You add water to the carbonara, roast chicken or beef stroganoff and hope for a tasty meal, but most of the time it just looked like brown or white mush and you


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