Ellen MacArthur

Dame Ellen MacArthur, DBE ( born July 8, 1976 in Derbyshire ) is a British sailor who is successful in racing and for three years held the world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the world in the one-handed sailing.

Life

Ellen MacArthur began in her childhood with the sailing. Her first small dinghy called Threepenny bit she bought with 13 years of money for the school food they had traveled for years. At age 21, she performed her first single-handed race across the Atlantic - the Mini - Transat 1997 where she placed 17th Place. In 1998, she first came to international attention when she won her class of boat single-handed transatlantic race Route du Rhum.

2001, the 24 -year-old became famous when she finished second in the Vendée Globe, currently the toughest races for solo sailing around the world. Almost 100 days, she was then alone with her boat Kingfisher ( named after its sponsor Kingfisher ) at sea, what they reported regularly by video camera.

In 2002 she won with Kingfisher again their boat class in the Route du Rhum.

On 28 November 2004 she began her world record for the fastest non-stop single-handed circumnavigation. 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds necessary for its 27,348 nautical miles (about 50,648 km ) long route on her trimaran B & Q, which has a length of 75 feet ( 22.9 m), a width of 16.2 m and had a mast height of 30.6 m, with a weight of 8.3 tons. 53 days after its launch on the coast südbritischen MacArthur rounded Cape Horn and crossed the ice cover in the Southern Ocean in record time, taking in the fastest 24 hours ( Etmal ) circumnavigation of the globe lay back 501.6 nautical miles. On February 7, 2005, she reached around 22:29:17 GMT clock the imaginary finish line at the entrance to the English Channel off the island of Ouessant in North West France and thus beat the fastest time of the previous record holder Francis Joyon ( 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes, 22 seconds), which corresponds to approximately 532 nautical miles by 1 day, 8 hours, 45 minutes at MacArthur average speed of 15.9 knots. The British held the record until January 2008, when Francis Joyon brought him back with a time of 57 days, 13 hours and 34 minutes.

Honors

  • 2001 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award ( Weltseglerin of the year)
  • For their world record was 2005 by Elizabeth II ( youngest woman) in the nobility ( her new title of nobility: "Lady " ) collected (DBE ). ( Order of the British Empire )
  • 2005 ISAF Rolex World Sailor of the Year Award ( Weltseglerin of the year)
  • 2007 First Honorary Member ( Inductee ) in the newly created ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame
  • 2008 Knight of the Legion of Honor
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