Yachting Monthly

Bluewater plans

Kelly Rashleigh, fulltime musician turned adventurer from Stratford-upon-Avon, is preparing to sail around the world with her husband and three young children.

Running away to sea seems very dramatic but 2020 was dramatic for so many in so many different ways. We are musicians first and foremost. My husband Hugh has done his stint at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and I used to spend four to five nights a week entertaining drinkers and revellers.

We were making a pretty good living doing something we loved and it had been that way for years; we were happy,

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