Vendee Globe & Ellen MacArthur
Discussion
Well with probably 4-5 days to go looks like our plucky heroine is going to break the record.now 2 days 16 hours ahead of the record with 1957 miles to go. Does this mean she will sail into Falmouth on Saturday?
Some good info on her site www.teamellen.com/
Perhaps of more interest to the yachters amongst you is the final stages of the Vendee Globe with 550 miles to go there are 3 boats within 60 miles of each other after 85 days racing. The standard of the reporting complete with the strategic analysis and tactical options has been fascinating.www.vendeeglobe.org/uk/home
Some good info on her site www.teamellen.com/
Perhaps of more interest to the yachters amongst you is the final stages of the Vendee Globe with 550 miles to go there are 3 boats within 60 miles of each other after 85 days racing. The standard of the reporting complete with the strategic analysis and tactical options has been fascinating.www.vendeeglobe.org/uk/home
I do think her achievements are fantastic.
I sail and have done offshore races, it may look easy to the man in the street but this girl deserves the highest accolade
But
I can't help laughing everytime I hear one of her reports, It just like the sketch on Dead Ringers
you think she is going to burst into tears at any moment.
(But to tell the trutth if it was me I would be crying all the time too)
I sail and have done offshore races, it may look easy to the man in the street but this girl deserves the highest accolade
But
I can't help laughing everytime I hear one of her reports, It just like the sketch on Dead Ringers
you think she is going to burst into tears at any moment.
(But to tell the trutth if it was me I would be crying all the time too)
She is a truly inspiring person. Clearly mad, but with enormous guts and determination. Yet when we've got someone who could be a real national hero, the news is full of Peter Andre and Jordan maybe getting married?
If she doesn't make the record, no doube the papers will be full of the usual 'hey aren't we all crap?' stuff. The fact she's still alive seems to be a miracle to me, never mind being ahead of the game. I hope she gets it, she certainly deserves it.
If she doesn't make the record, no doube the papers will be full of the usual 'hey aren't we all crap?' stuff. The fact she's still alive seems to be a miracle to me, never mind being ahead of the game. I hope she gets it, she certainly deserves it.
I really hope she does it (the record). Whether she goes faster than Joyon or not, her voyage itself represents achievement on such a staggering level as to be completely incomprehendable to us normal bods. If she doesn't break the record though, she'll get almost no recognition atall in our jaundiced media.
I'd be willing to bet that with her kind of determination she wouldn't give a crap about that and would say that she did it entirely for her team and herself though. In these times of worthless trash-celeb culture, she should be held up a shining example of what can be achieved if you're prepared to put THAT MUCH EFFORT into it.
Is Falmouth to be her destination port? I've been giving serious thought to going wherever it is to give it
.
I'd be willing to bet that with her kind of determination she wouldn't give a crap about that and would say that she did it entirely for her team and herself though. In these times of worthless trash-celeb culture, she should be held up a shining example of what can be achieved if you're prepared to put THAT MUCH EFFORT into it.
Is Falmouth to be her destination port? I've been giving serious thought to going wherever it is to give it
.
There are those that say that satellite-based global weather / positioning and communications software, together with motorized winches has made sailing around the globe little more than programming the Clio to go down to Sainsbury's for the weekly shop.
However having the balls to put your head down for a few zzzs when you're a thousand of miles from land, totally exhausted, it's the middle of the night, it's blowing a gale, the boat's pitching and rolling and there could be icebergs small enough for the radar to miss but large enough not to take prisoners, etc etc is so impressive that it is almost impossible to imagine!
A truly astonishing achievement and I sincerely hope Ellen's blessed with favourable weather on the run in.
However having the balls to put your head down for a few zzzs when you're a thousand of miles from land, totally exhausted, it's the middle of the night, it's blowing a gale, the boat's pitching and rolling and there could be icebergs small enough for the radar to miss but large enough not to take prisoners, etc etc is so impressive that it is almost impossible to imagine!
A truly astonishing achievement and I sincerely hope Ellen's blessed with favourable weather on the run in.
rude-boy said:
She is a truly inspiring person. Clearly mad, but with enormous guts and determination... a real national hero,
I hope she gets it, she certainly deserves it.
All of the above, mad as a bicycle, but I hope she does it!
Her autobiography really does bring home the grit and determination she has - well worth a read
What I really do like is her anti-celebrity attitude. Why is it that we lord praise on other sports personalities such as Beckham and the like - whose penalty-missing antics put us out of Euro '04, yet when one woman takes a yacht round the world single-handedly through situations that could well kill her, we gripe because she came second? She'll probably break several records and win this time around - I hope her acheivements are recognised this time.
And those eating bugs in the jungle under a camera spotlight think they've got it hard? Wimps...
And those eating bugs in the jungle under a camera spotlight think they've got it hard? Wimps...
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