Yachtsman Val Howells from Pembrokeshire talks to Gerry Monte describing his recent 30,000-mile voyage, alone, around the world - a voyage in which he says he was in his poorest-ever mental, emotional and physical state, almost broken, both spiritually and financially, by the strain of building two ocean-going yachts in which he and his son competed in the solo race across the Atlantic.
For Val that race ended after three days, but when he sailed back from his round-the-world trip, three years after setting out, he claims he came back a different man.
In this conversation he describes losing his rudder half-way across the Atlantic, cruising the magic islands of the Pacific, and whaling in an open boat off the Azores and all the time sailing to find himself. BBC Wales
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