Egal, ob sie es heute abend schaffen wird oder nicht: Ruhm, Ehre und Hochachtung für Ellen MacArthur, die gerade dabei ist, die schnellste Erdumseglung aller Zeiten als Einhandsegler mit einem neuen Rekord zu beenden. Heute abend wird sie nach mehr als 27.000 Seemeilen aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach den Rekord des Franzosen Francis Joyon brechen.
Aus ihrem heutigen Logbuch:
I’m absolutely exhausted, I had about 15 minutes sleep I think through the night, there has been ships everywhere, rain squalls. We had the wind direction changing. At one point the boat tacked itself because the wind shift was so great so! It’s been a full on night and I am very, very tired. I was hoping to be in before sunset tonight but that looks absolutely impossible now, so I’m just going to have to hang in here and just try and hold on until the finish.
Getting to land is a strange thing to say because it’s been a long time since we’ve even seen land. We didn’t see Cape Horn, all I’ve seen have seen are the Islands in the South Atlantic. There’s not been a lot of land sighted from B&Q so the thought of coming back to land is pretty novel in itself. I’m very much looking forward to getting in, to seeing all the team, my friends and family and all the supporters. I can’t wait to get in. It’s been a very, very long trip and an exceptionally hard one. I’ll be glad to be crossing that finish line and finally feeling a little bit of relief.
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