Southampton Boat Show

Yeah.

The first few years at Southampton Boat Show, most people thought we were selling shampoo or hair styling products because it just sounded a bit more like that.

And again, the design of the bottles and the branding that we'd come up with also It wasn't just a white bottle with a picture of a boat on it.

It was much more considered than that.

You know, if anyone has a birthday or gets ill or whatnot, there's a huge kind of community.

You know, even here at the Southampton Boat Show, I've had maybe... seven or eight crew members of mine come down to see the boat and what not that community that was built is absolutely amazing and that feeling of being on a boat and being a small cog in a super well oiled machine is something that's like unbelievably transformative as like a key piece of my life, but also their lives.

So when I was going to kind of progress in my career and go towards this sort of solo or double-handed offshore racing, I was a bit nervous about, you know, am I going to even enjoy this? You know, I'm not a particularly solitary person.

I think if you'd asked me when I was sort of 19 or 20, my worst nightmare would be sort of spending sort of days alone, you know, just for whatever your internal monologue is or whatever.

So it's like performance-y stuff, but it's not going to sort of just kind of flake and break on you in just one season.

Yeah, yeah.

I was talking to the McLean brothers, who are erosion rowers, during the Southampton Boat Show.

They're not sponsored by Mustang Survival.

But, um, Hannah Caboon, some of you will have listened to the last episode, episode 34, if Andy's got his numbers right.

Um, Hannah said, "You've go-" afterwards she said, "You've got to get Jess in." Jess, Jess knows all about tall ships and traditional boats, and Jess, Jess was involved in the Southampton Boat Show where Hannah was recently, and there was a women's boat building kind of stand there.

And the main reason, but we'll come onto that later, was to discuss, I think it's a nonprofit organization, Women in Boat Building-

Mm-hmm

Yeah.

Um, but then I was asked to come to Southampton Boat Show.

Ah.

The Women in Boat Building, and they're boat building a canopy, and the Lyme Regis Boat-

Yes

... at Southampton.

The only nice bit of Southampton Boat Show, I'm told.

Yeah.