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 Lucy Craig
At the moment I am working at the bar at the Royal Weymouth Yacht club. My life has been a bit on hold for a while, as I have just been waiting to see the programme on TV. Basically now I am keen to use my newfound confidence to fulfil my potential. I have always been held back by a fear of failure before, but I have broken free of that.
I've never been good at showing authority. That was the scariest thing about my time on Faking It. It got easier as the weeks progressed, as I got to know more what I was talking about and as I got to know the people I was ordering about. I have taken some of that improved confidence with me back into normal life.
They say that with sailing either you get the bug or you don't. I'm not sure if I have got the bug. To be honest, I just associate sailing with sweaty palms. I'd like to do more sailing, but in a less stressful environment - maybe crewing in the Mediterranean or the Caribbean. Sailing hasn't been a bolt from the blue, but the whole Faking It experience was pretty fab.
Sir Chay Blythe
What's the biggest difficulty learning to be a yacht skipper?
It's making a transitional change from thinking you have to do things, to understanding that you have to stand back and tell other people what to do.
What was the biggest crisis during the four weeks?
The biggest crisis was when Lucy started to realise that she was going to be totally in charge. That frightened her. We had to inject her with confidence. We told her 'of course you can do it' - all the while knowing that maybe she couldn't.
How confident were you immediately before the test?
We weren't 100% confident. We knew that Lucy was good, but it is such a complex thing. Just the slightest wrong word would have given her away.
Has everyone got a yacht skipper in them? Or was Lucy special?
We couldn't have done it with anyone. Lucy was good raw material. She had a lot of enthusiasm. She was a gregarious person. It wouldn't have been possible with someone who was shy. Also, we needed someone we could manipulate slightly. What we did was a bit like theatre. We got Lucy saying lines, without her always fully understanding the implications of what she was saying.
When you started this challenge, did you think it was possible?
No, I didn't think we could do it in a million years. Once we all got behind her, and got her to eat and sleep the stuff it all started to come together. What was really interesting was the way it all came together in the last week. We made a lot of mistakes in the beginning by trying to teach Lucy the small things, things like the trim of the sail. Once we realised that she didn't have to learn that, we were much better positioned.
Did Faking It make you change what you think about being a yacht skipper?
No, not at all.
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