A woman will spend a year sailing around the world in a 70ft yacht crewed by amateurs.
First mate Zoe Longley, from Derby, will be one of two professional sailors on board one of 10 yachts taking part in the biannual Clipper Round the World Yacht Race – dubbed the "world's toughest endurance challenge".
The crews will make six ocean crossings and call into 14 ports across the globe, including Oban, Cape Town, Qingdao and Seattle.
She said the race was set to be "intense" but the opportunity to sail around the world was a dream come true.
She said: "I've wanted to sail around the world for a long time.
"I've heard it's a bit of a test but I'm very much up for it as I'm sure all the crew are.
"There's lots of pulling on ropes, lots of pulling on sails, lots of boat tilting trying not to fall off."
Each crew, aside from the skipper and first mate, is made up of amateurs who will be steering their vessels 40,000 nautical miles when the event gets under way from Portsmouth on 31 August.
Miss Longley, 27, said: "They don't have to have had any previous experience before they sign up to do the Clipper Race but they would have all done at least four weeks of intense sailing to prepare for the race.
"And then as the race goes on the training continues, it never stops so by the end of the race the circumnavigators are pretty good – there's actually two mates this year that were circumnavigators the race before."
