OLYMPIC silver medallist Heather Fell from Tavistock is about to undertake another major sporting challenge as she tackles part of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race. Heather, who won her silver in the modern pentathlete for Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, will join team Jamaica Get All Right crew for the remainder of the circumnavigation. The Clipper Race is renowned as one of toughest challenges in sport and Heather hopes the skills she learned as a pentathlete will stand her in good stead. 'My small amount of sailing experience is insignificant in the scale of this but I can't wait for the challenge,' she said. 'The taster I experienced during the Clipper Race training has made me realise what I'm letting myself in for. I've got a mixture of extreme nerves combined with huge excitement.' She will join Jamaica Get All Right crew in its home port of Port Antonio in Jamaica for the 13th race in the series to New York, which gets underway on May 24. Heather will also be a crew member for the last three races, which will see the fleet depart New York to start its long awaited final home-coming leg on June 7, racing via Northern Ireland and the Netherlands to arrive in London on July 12, where it originally started on September 1, 2013. She first stepped on a Clipper Race boat as a child in the inaugural race in 1996 when she visited the fleet in Plymouth before it set off round the world.  This is the former world number one's first major sporting challenge since she retired from modern pentathlon in January, although she completed the 982-mile John O'Groats to Land's End bike ride in nine days a year ago to raise money for the Bath Rugby Foundation.