God bless Ellen MacArthur

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I love the lady. To watch that tiny square figure scramble all over her enormous boat, work with every ounce of her being to keep it going as she wishes, like a pretty little spider taming a horse - a sea-horse - is an awe-inspiring image of work, and dedication, and mind controlling and directing force; and to know that she has done it for more than two months, taking little twenty-minute catnaps to rest, getting her head cracked and her arm burned... there are no words, just no words, for it. Ellen, you are wonderful, and if you were not already married to the sea, I, like thousands of men in Britain and France, would like your babies.