Tats<p>Sail World: An interview with Jenny Decker about her solo circumnavigation.</p><p>Sailing alone around the world is a serious physical and mental challenge for anyone, but for Jenny Decker, an American sailor and professional nurse who suffers from Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease, the adventure is an even bolder mission. Decker, now 40, was diagnosed with CMT—a hereditary neurological disorder that affects the peripheral nerves that deliver commands to one's feet, legs, hands, and arms—when she was a teenager, but she has long refused to back down in the face of this currently incurable and progressive disease.<br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/CharcotMarieTooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharcotMarieTooth</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/cmt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cmt</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.sail-world.com/news/280270/Jenny-Decker-on-her-solo-circumnavigation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sail-world.com/news/280270/Jen</span><span class="invisible">ny-Decker-on-her-solo-circumnavigation</span></a></p>