Unless you follow sailing this is probably the first time you've heard the name Ellen Macarthur. I'm an avid racer and I can't even believe it, and didn't think it was possible. She sailed a sailboat (if you can still call those high tech rigs sailboats) around the world in 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes and 33 seconds, beating the "perfect sail" record held by Francis Joyon by 1day, 8hrs, 35minutes. That's like beating the 100m world record by a full second in my opinion (Ben Johnson excluded). She's the MAN!
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