Terminally ill sailor in tears during storm winds on challenge
Ms Turner said the wind speed on day 24 of her challenge on Monday had reached gusts of over 34 mph.Posting on Instagram she said: "It made for some quite exciting but rather battering sailing."Secretly I was loving it."She added: "It's calmed down a little this morning, so today's focus is on resting my body."Everything is wet and damp and I am very fed up of it raining."Ms Turner has already sailed around Cornwall, Ireland and up to Shetland in northern Scotland.
She was diagnosed with her illness, which causes fainting and seizures, when she was 18.Due to complications, doctors have told her that her condition is now terminal.Ms Turner is raising money for Sailability, a charity that enables people with disabilities or who come from a difficult background to get into sailing.She surpassed her fundraising target of £30,000 within two weeks of the challenge and is now hoping to raise than £50,000.
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