Born in Exeter in 1973, Conrad Humphreys grew up in Exmouth, where he sailed Cadets and won the Junior Worlds in 1989. At 19 he joined a crew for the 1993-94 Whitbread Round the World Race, then studied ocean science and meteorology at the University of Plymouth.
In 2000-2001 he won the BT Global Challenge, taking four of seven legs and becoming the youngest winning skipper of the event. He then navigated for Mike Golding in the EDS Atlantic Challenge and in 2003 won the 50ft class of the Transat Jacques Vabre with Paul Larsen.
He finished 7th in the 2004-05 Vendée Globe, the fifth British sailor to complete it. He later raced in the Extreme Sailing Series, the Archipelago Raid and the 2011 Solitaire du Figaro.
In 2014 he entered the Route du Rhum in a Class40, number 132, but dismasted about 400 miles west of Lisbon and retired. In 2016 he was professional skipper on Channel 4's recreation of Captain Bligh's voyage.
