Katie wins Young Sailor of the Year
by Sail-World Cruising on 8 Jan 2007
Katie Miller, sailing Elektra, her 21ft Corribee, in which she circumnavigated Britain SW
Katie Miller has won the Raymarine/YJA Young sailor of the Year award, presented by Dee Caffari yesterday at the London Boat Show. In July this year, Katie Miller successfully completed a solo circumnavigation of the British Isles raising almost nine thousand pounds for The Ellen MacArthur Trust.
Katie set sail from Hamble, Hampshire in April 2006 on her solo circumnavigation in her 21ft yacht, Elektra. It took Katie three months to complete the voyage.
Katie, from Birmingham first went sailing on holiday with her parents in Greece when she was 13 years old and as soon as she returned she joined the Sea Cadets. Katie was inspired by Dame Ellen MarArthur’s second place in the 2000-01 Vendée Globe and since that point followed her progress, prompting Katie to work as a volunteer for The Ellen MacArthur Trust in her holidays.
In Katie’s Gap year, before starting University at Southampton Solent, she decided to raise money for The Trust by attempting the solo journey but she said months on it still hadn’t sunk in, 'I still can’t believe I managed it. I had some bad times and some great times but it is all worth it when you see it make a difference to the children of the Trust.'
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