A circumnavigation with a mission

12:33 AM Mon 30 Aug 2010 GMT

'Dr Josie sailing round Britain' .

Circumnavigation has a fascination for sailors, be it round the world, the Americas, Australia or Britain. So what do you do when you are told that you only have months to live? Why, you go sail a circumnavigation...or maybe only heroes do. Dr Josie Phillips, 27, was used to being in contact with terminally ill people, but that didn't prepare her for her own diagnosis with a brain tumour. In 2008 she was told her tumour was malignant and her life expectancy was little more than a year. So what did she do? Yes, she and her husband Roger went ...

Click here for full story.

by Des Ryan