Craig Wood Sails

⚛TRIPLE AMPUTEE
🌏2x World Record holder
⚓ SAILOR

[Craig Wood Sails @CraigWoodSails]

Choose how you handle a situation because that's all we can do.

[Rich Leigh @RichLeighPR]

At just 18 years old, @CraigWoodSails lost both legs, his left hand and suffered other major injuries after stepping on a controlled IED in Afghanistan.

Craig, from Doncaster, spent weeks in a coma - “I remember a feeling like dogs were eating my legs while in the coma” - years rebuilding his life, and was told he’d never sail again.

Yet years later, aged 33, he became the first triple amputee to sail solo and unsupported across the Pacific Ocean, raising £70,000 for Blesma, The Limbless Veterans and Turn to Starboard, and breaking 2 Guinness World Records.

But, this conversation isn’t really about sailing.

It’s about identity.

What happens when the thing you thought you’d be is taken away from you?

How do you rebuild yourself when your old life disappears?

We talked about trauma, purpose, addiction, fatherhood, the danger of letting other people define your limits, and why his mum’s brutally honest question changed everything:

“You’re still going to be a triple amputee. So what now?”

Craig Wood on Project Possible. Don’t miss it.

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[Craig Wood Sails @CraigWoodSails]

Here's some thing I have learned along my journey as a triple amputee for the past 17 years.

Tell me which one you think applies to you best?
#resilience #mindset #amputee #adaptive #veteran

[Beyond the Barracks - Gina A @militarymemos]

@CraigWoodSails Surviving the Blast-Part 2 #britishsoldier #leadership ... https://t.co/ZIZfc5AmMv via @CraigWoodSails #beingthankful #theteam @Blesma #recordbreaker

[Craig Wood Sails @CraigWoodSails]

Who knows what this is?

[Craig Wood Sails @CraigWoodSails]

Really excited to share some epic news with you.

In 2025, I hope to defy all odds as a triple-amputee and sail the entire Pacific Ocean solo. That’s a whopping 6,000 nautical miles (10,000km), from Mexico to Japan on a 41-foot custom-built aluminium catamaran

#sailing