Founded in 1960, the Ocean Youth Club runs a fleet of nine 72-foot ketches, in which members - aged between 15 and 21 - sail to many parts of the world from the Azores to Iceland.
Maureen Staffer joins the crews of the Sir Thomas Sopwilh and the Samuel
Whitbread - some of whom have never set foot on a ship before - for a taste of life on the high seas under sail.
Producer JOCK CALLAGHER BBC Birmingham