First of three programmes in which seasoned travellers recall their exploits and their reactions to extreme conditions.
"Ten thousand miles from home, in 60-foot seas, no sleep for three days, all you've got to look forward to is the next tin of ravioli - then you're capsized by a freak wave which does five thousand pounds' worth of damage to the boat...." Bill Howell , Josh Hall and Robin Knox -Johnson relive some delights of long-distance single-handed ocean voyages. Producer Alastair Wilson