Come on Ellen!!! Anyone else following her voyage?

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I've been following the little lady on www.teamellen.com and on the BBC site since she set sail in December,its amazing reading everything thats happened!

I could barely sail around a lake or harbour and she's sailed around the whole world on her own 8O

Current position

Latitude: 34deg 38min North
Longitude 28deg 26min West

Distance sailed: 25,841 miles
Distance to go: 1,326 miles

Nearly home :D

Surely this will be ones of the greatet feats of human endeavour and endurrance in the histroy of mankind if she makes it inside the record?
 
personally not interested at all...

it would be remotely interesting if she faced any danger.
 
What like nearly colliding with the largest living creature on the Earth like she did the other day....or sailing accross the most dangerous seas on earth...or trying to avoid hitting icebergs bigger than mount everest?

:roll: :P
 
she has support boats all around hers and helicopters circling the skies above her, she has communication by sattelite and plenty of food and water.

not like the old days is it?
 
stuie said:
she has support boats all around hers and helicopters circling the skies above her, she has communication by sattelite and plenty of food and water.

not like the old days is it?
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No, she has no support boats or helicopters. If she sinks automatic beacons go off but then they have to get to her. She gets about an hour's sleep on a night. She has to climb 30ft of mast in mountainous seas. It's been freezing cold, she's in living quarters the size of a cubby hole and she's cut and bruised.

True about the communication aspect though.

Yay Ellen.
 
gingerfreak said:
stuie said:
she has support boats all around hers and helicopters circling the skies above her, she has communication by sattelite and plenty of food and water.

not like the old days is it?
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No, she has no support boats or helicopters. If she sinks automatic beacons go off but then they have to get to her. She gets about an hour's sleep on a night. She has to climb 30ft of mast in mountainous seas. It's been freezing cold, she's in living quarters the size of a cubby hole and she's cut and bruised.

True about the communication aspect though.

Yay Ellen.
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Seems a pointless exercise to me.

If she was fit i might have a casual interest.

As she looks like she actually has been at sea for years, my interest is in the negative.

Sorry for being shallow about it but I'd be more interested if she was eaten by sharks.
:P
 
PMSL :lol:

She strikes me as someone who has nothing better to do than be on her own in a big boat miles away from civilisation :lol:
 
I heard a sick joke about her record been beaten the other week, but................no, no, no, just can't bring myself to tell it. :roll:
 
I'm sure she would think equally highly of going on a repetitive two week holiday to a little island in the mediterranean every year where the most dangerous thing that can happen is being frisked by the Guardia and the highlight of the entire experience is paying overinflated prices for everyting while listening to electronic music squahsed in a crowd of thousands in a small club :P :lol:
 
DJ Soulman said:
I heard a sick joke about her record been beaten the other week, but................no, no, no, just can't bring myself to tell it. :roll:
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It's not a very good joke anyway, and I like those sort of sick jokes.
 
discodude said:
plus is it just me or does she look like she has a touch of down syndrome?
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Oooooohhhh go and neck a load of thrills and stalk someone on the internet or something discochump.
 
TBH I'd rather cheer on someone who has beaten cancer, or someone who is doing something ro raise money for charity, i.e Jane Tomlinson, raising money for cancer despite being terminally ill herself.

Am I right in saying that Ellen McCarthur has been given a hefty sponsorship sum for doing her travels? Is any of it going to a good cause? :roll:
 
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