MacArthur is now one day and 11 hours ahead of the pace set by Joyon.That some machine that she is sailing
http://www.teamellen.com/ and http://www.voyager2020.com/
[Edited on 29-1-05 by mangogrooveworkshop]
I wonder how the dead ringers team will handle it
Ellen MacArthur (Jan Ravens) can be seen battling against the odds as she circumnavigates the spare room with the vacuum cleaner and copes with the
pain of a red t-shirt in the white wash in her challenge to bravely take on the housework.
Does Ellen acturally sail the boat? so much of it must be remotely operated and she has a team telling her where to sail and when to go to sleep... is
she real or is she a robot that can cry?
Any way good luck to her!
Maybe it's Linda Barron and Pauline Quirk from the feather programme...no-body knows. B&Q, it's a mystery.
ellen does it all, with just remote support. the sailing isnt the hard bit, provided the winches are light enough! that power sleep lark must drive her mad though, imagine getting back home after many months of 20 minute kips! lasting damage methinks.
All that in a boat bought from a local DIY store. It must be popular because when I went for a look round B&Q the other day they didn't have
one single boat left. 
Loads of MDF and timber though so I might make a locost version. I power nap all the time, sometimes for hours on end and
usually when there's something I wanted to watch on telly, no problemo.
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Originally posted by chris.russell
Does Ellen acturally sail the boat? so much of it must be remotely operated and she has a team telling her where to sail and when to go to sleep... is she real or is she a robot that can cry?
A young lady for central UK (whatstandwell) of all places can excel in such a hard a gruelling sport. I was at the start of the BOC around the world
in 1998. Only monohulls, average 60' in length. I think they lost several boats and 2 sailors that year.
I have done my share of crewing on board J24s and a little offshore sailing. I think I will stick with my feet on soild ground and 4 wheels.
David
Call me a cynic but ----
Great to see that a fit woman using mega expensive 21st century technology can do what pensioner could do in the 1960s.
slightly quicker though, BT, thats the point!
and she's a might butcher...
Wish her well , if she beats the present record then good on her. Besides anyone that can build a flat pack that big deserves some recognision
I bet she had one screw left over and used all the glue up before she was 1/3 the way through!
I can only ever admire her achievements, money's helping her now but it didn't at the start.
Let none of us criticise until we do better ourselves!
Was it just me, or did anyone else notice that the site seems primarily french.
I know they take it much more seriously - good yatchsmen are heroes to them, but thought that was slightly unnecessary.
Three day lead now.
Come on Ellen!!
ATB
Simon
She has lost 11 hrs but is still ahead
WHAT IS THE RECORD...
WHAT IS THE RECORD... SOLO, NON-STOP AROUND THE WORLD ON A MULTIHULL...
A record only attempted fives times before in sailing history - only one sailor made the distance non-stop.
It will be extreme, it will be on the edge, it will be dangerous...
Success will be monumental - failure will be her constant companion.
Racing against the clock, no one else, just the time of the previous record, the pace is unrelenting...you push as much as you dare...
Ellen MacArthur, Skipper, trimaran B&Q
TIME TO BEAT...
72 DAYS, 22 HOURS, 54 MINUTES + 22 SECONDS
Current record set by French sailor, Francis Joyon, on board 90-foot multihull IDEC in February 2004.
WHY IS THIS RECORD SO EXCEPTIONAL...
1800+ people have reached the summit of Everest...*
450+ people have been in space...**
12 astronauts have stepped on the moon...**
Only 5 solo sailors have attempted to race around the globe non-stop on multihulls (the fastest and most extreme boats on the oceans) in pursuit of
a new world record...
Only 1 sailor succeeded to go the distance non-stop...
Ellen MacArthur will become the next sailor to attempt this world record - the youngest in history to take on the challenge...
Ellen will push the boundaries of what is possible at sea and to push her own limits beyond those she has ever known before...
THE ELLEN HAS LANDED!
What's that then, day and a half quicker???
Well done!!!!!!
Good on her, some achievement......................what have I done, built a few cars.........Doh!!!!! (suddenlt I feel a bit small!)
[Edited on 7/2/05 by NS Dev]
Heard on radio local. Presenter 1, "What a great achievement", presenter 2, "I bet she's ready for some company"
wasn,t it only last week when her lead dropped from 3 day,s to hour,s due to weather condition,s so well done to her