Sarah has been brought up around boats; her family has owned and run a boatbuilding company at Norton Canes Docks, on the northerly limit of the BCN since 1986. She has also lived next to the Wyrley & Essington Canal since childhood. Sarah purchased her first boat in 2009, ex-FMC Vienna. In 2010 she acquired ex-FMC Ling from British Waterways and she bought her current boat, ex-FMC Lamprey, in 2012. Sarah operates Glascote Basin Boatyard on the Coventry Canal in Tamworth.
She was elected as Chair at the AGM on 5 March 2022 for a 3-year term.