Oliver Hooton finishes Clipper Race

Oliver Hooton reflects on his journey after finishing the Clipper 2023-24 Round the World Yacht Race. Copyright: Clipper Ventures Plc

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00:00It's just amazing. I was doing quite well and now I'm choking up.

00:04No, it's so much more than I thought it would be.

00:08It's beautiful. All these people just here to welcome everybody.

00:13It's really strange. It feels like 11 years, 11 months, 11 minutes.

00:17Not sure which one it feels like, but it's definitely been an adventure of a lifetime.

00:23With a little extra cherry on the top. Tell me about this cherry.

00:26Ah, the cherry of winning. Even midday yesterday, it didn't feel like it was going to be possible.

00:33And then everybody just knuckled down, we all got to it and made the boat move as well as we could.

00:38We thought if we do that, we might be lucky. And we were. We got it.

00:43At the right, at the last minute. Just perfect. Absolutely perfect.

00:47That was close. That was very close.