Jill started sailing at the age of three weeks and spent her formative years messing about in racing dinghies in Chichester Harbour. She made her first blue-water passage at the age of 18 but it was to be a further ten years before she was shanghaied by the skipper and started her career as an ocean-going hobo. Jill has written a handful of books, details of which are available on her website.

Jill is custodian of all three of the ship’s cameras – which is why you won’t often find her likeness in these pages. Photography is the quick-fix which she employs when time does not allow her to engage in the far more satisfying pursuit of painting in watercolour or oils.

When not sailing, painting, writing, cooking dinner, tidying up after other people, or trying to get Roxanne to do some schoolwork, Jill enjoys watching wildlife, messing about in her inflatable kayak, tapping out tunes on her squeeze box, and boring the kids with stories about the summer she spent flying float planes in Canada.

Her pet hates are doing the washing, rinsing the washing, and hanging up the wet washing. She also dislikes taking the clothes off the line, and folding the clean laundry.