Imagine - Climate Relay

I participated in "Running Out of Time - Climate Relay 2022" by carrying the baton across the world's busiest shipping lane, the Dover Strait, from England to France, all done under sail. It was important for us to play a critical part in this relay, which is an epic fossil-fuel-free 7,767 km non-stop relay from Glasgow, Scotland, the host city of the UN's COP26 international meeting on Climate Change to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, host of COP27. The Climate Relay, being run between 30th September and 6th November 2022, 24/7 across 18 countries, is organised by the charity Carbon Copy, to raise awareness of climate issues and the power of community action to meet this enormous challenge. For us, our leg across the English Channel was also a challenge by itself. We left Lorient, France on a Friday afternoon, sailed upwind for 32 hours, picked up the baton under sail from a rower on the English side and dropped it off to a windsurfer on the French side. Then sailed back another 24 hours to Lorient. We were 3 onboard my Imoca Imagine, Pam Lee an Irish professional skipper now living in France, Natasha Gonzalez, a filmmaker from Costa Rica also transplanted to France and myself. I hope that my participation inspires others to make climate-friendly choices every day... For more on this project: https://running-out-of-time.com/ ? ? by Natasha Gonzalez @coconutssailteam