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Ellen MacArthur
01 Mar 2005
Ellen MacArthur: she's one tough little lady who aroused astonishing opinions following her record-breaking solo circumnavigation. Love her or hate her, everyone had an opinion, including Bob Fisher, who was quoted as The Guardian's yachting correspondent making some pretty rough comments, including "There are a lot of people in the professional sailing contingent who wouldn't sail across the Solent with her".
Fisher later insisted he had been misquoted.
And horse racing commentator Clare Balding was quoted as saying: "Dead Ringers has done it for me. I cannot read the daily reports from Ellen MacArthur without picturing the impressionist Jan Ravens, clad in yellow sou'wester and galoshes, sitting in a heap by the washing machine, sobbing 'I don't think I can cope any more'."
Then there were the rules sticklers, who insisted Ms MacArthur had broken the ColRegs by not keeping an adequate lookout??. .
BB congratulates Ms MacArthur: an astonishing feat.
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