The Reverend Bob Shepton, who has spent decades sailing and climbing in the high latitudes, has been honoured with the Ocean Cruising Club’s prestigious Lifetime Award.
The former Royal Marine officer, who is an ordained minister in the Church of England, is no stranger to awards. He won the Yachting Journalists’ Association’s. During his sailing career, he has sailed around the world via Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope, with ex-students from the school where he was chaplin, aboard his 1980 33ft Westerly Discus, . When the yacht was dismasted in the Drake Passage, Bob and his crew sailed under jury rig to the Falkland Islands.
