A series of eight programmes Around the World with Clare Francis
1: To Capetown
In some of the most dramatic real-life sailing ever seen on television CLARE FRANCIS and her crew of 11 sail in a race around the world, against the clock, with 14 rarely-seen competitors in this special two-part programme.
The event was the 1977/78 Whit-bread Round-the-World Yacht Race - 27,000 miles and seven months through some of the most notorious stretches of ocean in the world, filmed by Skipper Clare herself and members of her crew.
A champagne film. (DAILYMAIL) Producer BOB SAUNDERS