February 13, 2005
Ellen can do it but we can't
I have a passing interest in yachts and the sea and the biggest recent event was of course Ellen Macarthur's round the world record breaking journey. Journalists can compare her favourably or not against other great sportswomen or even other great women - however, I completely believe she did for her own reasons and would find these comparisons irrelevant.
What is relevant, though, is we're in Falmouth again and so the first thing we did after unpacking was to pop round to see the not so beautifully named B&Q trimaran.
Having driven down through fairly extreme weather, we were presented with amazingly high winds and so not allowed down to the pontoon to have a closer look. Ellen faces everything the weather can throw at her and we can't even be trusted to step onto a floating pontoon. The people in the second picture live in the Portdennis development and have private access (and bring their friends no doubt).
Not sure the photo does justice to the atrocious conditions but it's a fine boat nonetheless.
