Following Obiter's recent profile of Sian Reynolds, the 26-year-old solicitor wending her way across the oceans in the Clipper Round of the World Yacht challenge, it transpires that she is not alone - there are some nine people with a legal connection taking part in the race.


The boat representing Chinese city Qingdao has two London-based solicitors, Christian Lambie and Christopher Jones, tackling the whole trip, while Shrewsbury solicitor Linda Green and barrister Neil Moody from Winchester are taking part in various legs.



Meanwhile, Clarke Willmott partner Robert Morfee from Bristol will be on board Jamaica for legs five and six. He will be joined on the latter by Helen Smith-Pryor, a legal secretary from Chigwell, and Duncan Bagshaw, a barrister from Birmingham, who will also complete leg seven.



Completing the legal sailing set is Michelle Fanneran, a barrister from London, who is taking part in five out of the seven legs on Uniquely Singapore.



The ten boats have now completed the second leg from La Rochelle, France to Salvador in Brazil, and Ms Reynolds' Glasgow: Scotland with style is in first position. Uniquely Singapore is sixth, Qingdao eighth and Jamaica tenth.



But there is still a long, long way to go, and the joys of the Southern Ocean still await the crews.