Three years after 15 year old Seb Clover sailed into the record books by becoming the youngest skipper to sail single-handed across the Atlantic,in a Contessa 32 his mother Dolores, is having a go in a Contessa 26.

Dolores is retracing Seb’s track on her own single-handed transatlantic odyssey.  She set out alone from Puerto Colon in Tenerife on the 12th February and is set to make Antigua around the 16th March – making the Clover family the only family whose every member has sailed single-handed across the Atlantic!

The boat’s cockpit has twice been swamped by seas which have come aboard and the tradewinds in a year which has been claimed by some to be the worst Atlantic weather in 200 years.

Dolores has already travelled over one and a half thousand miles and still has a thousand miles to go before she reaches safe haven at Nelsons Dockyard Antigua – on or around the 16th March.