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Article: The Greatest Sailor In The World: Ellen MacArthur, a 5'3" Brit dynamo, smashes the solo, nonstop round-the-world record and becomes a legend--and a sensation.(The Yachting life/Peers)(Profile)
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- April 1, 2005
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Byline: Barry Pickthall
Time stops for no man, they say, but last February 7th it did at least appear to pause in recognition of young Ellen MacArthur, the latest sailor, and first woman, to break the solo nonstop record for circumnavigation. Like a Cinderella rushing to make a midnight deadline, the diminutive 28-year-old yachtswoman from landlocked Derbyshire, who stands just 5'3" in her stocking feet, brought her 75-foot trimaran B&Q across the finish line at Ouessant, off the coast of Brittany, thereby joining the ranks of Joshua Slocum, Francis Chichester, Bernard Moitessier, Robin Knox-Johnson, Olivier de Kersauson, Grant Dalton and the Frenchman whose ...