Jojo Pickering
JoJo spent her early childhood sailing 20,000 NM across multiple oceans on a traditional cutter, later explored the Mediterranean and Atlantic as a teen, experienced a brief land-based interlude, and has since built a professional sailing career on a variety of classic and modern vessels.
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BIO
JoJo grew up on boats and spent the first six years of her life sailing from East Africa via the Seychelles, South Africa and Brazil on a 42ft gaff-rigged cutter with no engine or radio. No surprise then, that her sailing methodology is rooted in a traditional sailing ethos, having crossed the Atlantic twice and racked up 20,000 NM before the age of five. Her teenage years were spent sailing in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, the US Seaboard and the North Sea before landfall in Falmouth (UK) when an encounter with a circus-theatre troupe brought about a radical change of life-style. Jump forward a few years and JoJo’s bond with sailing was rekindled with an Atlantic circuit with her novice family crew on their 35ft cutter, Island Swift. She has been sailing professionally ever since on larger vessels ranging from Clipper 60s to 100-year-old Bristol Channel Pilot Cutters.