By the age of 14, Katie McCabe had seen more of the British coastline than most of us will experience in a lifetime because in 2021 the talented teenager became the youngest person ever to sail solo around Britain.
Katie made 36 stops on her 1,600 nautical mile anticlockwise voyage and experienced the best, and the worst, of times from a pod of “glowing torpedoes” (dolphins) following her boat for almost ten hours in the Bristol Channel to long, miserable spells sailing in soaking wet clothes and feeling “very, very alone”.
The adventurous schoolgirl, who lives near Exeter in Devon, was at the helm of her 26-foot wooden vessel, , for
