DOZENS of women will hit the seas this weekend for a sponsored sail across the English Channel in aid of Help for Heroes.
The Ladies Who Launch event will see ten yachts race from Lymington to Cherbourg in France.
Representing the Lymington ladies on the voyage which starts on Saturday are Alison King, wife of solo sailor Nigel King, and her crew Jane Wild and Charlotte Penman.
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