Neil Payter has been professional sailor and commercial fisherman since 1985 then moved onto becoming a professional skipper and feels now ready for the Global Solo Challenge.
He holds a Yachtmaster Ocean certificate and has been an RYA Yachtmaster Offshore instructor for over 20 years. He has crossed the Atlantic 14 times, sailed from South of France to Namibia and back, and clocked over 160.000 miles at sea making him a very experienced sailor and seaman. He has also raced in the OSTAR and the Azores and Back Race single-handed and in the Round Britain and Ireland.
We have interviewed him in Lanzarote where he was enjoying beautiful weather and a view of the Atlantic Ocean.
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