Then I'll enjoy going fishing."Biography: Jeremy FanstoneBorn: 1 April, 1966.Wife: Leah (n?Newbold), Whitbread crew member, Heineken 1993-94, EF Education 1997-98.Residence: Lymington, Hampshire.Education: Honours degree in philosophy and sociology, York University.Career: 1982-84: member of British Youth Squad 1992: runner-up British trials, Finn class, Olympic reserve. 1994: Built and skippered first Whitbread 30 to victory in Round Britain and Ireland race. 1995: Soling world champion with Stuart Childerly/Tim Powell, Savannah; Silver, pre-Olympic regatta 1997-98: Crew member of Silk Cut in Whitbread 1999: Fastnet race, 1st Member, US team for Admiral's Cup 2001: Winner, Fastnet.Hobbies: Fishing.. Currency trader Alison Streeter got a call on her mobile phone from her office "What should we do about South African rand?" they asked. Nothing unusual about that, even though she was crossing the Channel at the time What was unusual, though, was that she was swimming it. Currency trader Alison Streeter got a call on her mobile phone from her office "What should we do about South African rand?" they asked. Nothing unusual about that, even though she was crossing the Channel at the time.

What was unusual, though, was that she was swimming it. It happens quite frequently, she says, because she swims the Channel rather frequently. Forty times at the last count, a few weeks ago, a world record. "I always seem to pick a time when the money markets are going crazy. I don't mind, actually, because it gives me something to think about while I'm doing it."When the phone goes in the accompanying boat it is usually answered by her mother, Freda, who relays the message. Streeter shouts her instructions back across the waves, and ploughs on towards the French coast.

Or the White Cliffs of Dover, depending on which way she is heading.The 37-year-old from Nutfield, in Surrey, has crossed the 21-mile stretch of water more times than any man, or woman, since Captain Webb first did it in his long johns 126 years ago.The first time was two days after her 18th birthday and since then she's done it one way, there and back non-stop and once three times with just a 10-minute break for a radio interview In 1992 she swam it seven times in less than six months. Only once has she failed."It was my 31st attempt and the weather was really shitty, far too windy, really I shouldn't have gone, and had to give up But in a way it was good not to complete it. I was getting far too confident after 30 crossings and here was the Channel smacking me in the face and saying, 'Have some respect'."Unquestionably, she is Britain's most phenomenal long-distance swimmer And it's not just the Channel You name it, she's swum it. Ireland to Scotland, both ways, the Scilly Isles to Land's End, Capri to Naples, Windermere, around Jersey, to and from the Isle of Wight, and around it.