Why I . . . go adventure sailing

After weeks of preparation, Trevor Thompson was finally out on the open sea in his Wayfarer dinghy. He was taking a solo cruise from Penzance to the Scilly Isles.There was no other boat in sight and the remoteness of his situation was hitting home. As he passed Wolf Rock the sky darkened, the temperature dropped, and the wind picked up to a stiff breeze. “I suddenly felt incredibly alone,” he recalls. “Just at that moment, two Risso’s dolphins appeared, swimming swiftly off the bow for several minutes. I felt an elemental connection. It was amazing.”Thompson, a GP at Wellspring Surgery in Bristol and professor of primary care education at Bristol Medical School, says that his passion for adventure sailing gives him “a complete reset of body, mind, and spirit.”“It’s like going into another dimension. Everything you normally refer to—emails, meetings—disappears and it’s just you, the boat, and the shifting sea,”…
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