Faced with a terminal diagnosis, 27-year-old sailor Jazz Turner refused to give up on her dreams and recently circumnavigated the UK soloA decade ago 27-year-old Jazz Turner from Seaford, East Sussex was diagnosed with an incurable condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. “They can’t give me a real estimate because my condition is so poorly understood, but I’m completely prepared,” she says. “We focus on quality of life, rather than quantity of life.” That “we” explains a big part of her positivity. For Jazz, whose condition causes severe muscular, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular problems, sailing is as close as she gets to feeling free. Support from her local sailing club eventually led her to her foster parents, and helped her rebuild her life.