Telegraph | Sport | Yachting: MacArthur blown ahead of pace. After watching a 5 day lead evaporate due to low winds (at one point she was 4 hours behind the record-setting pace) Ellen MacArthur is now 20 hours ahead of the pace set by Francis Joyon's solo record pace.
[B&Q] is a trimaran (meaning it has three hulls), is 75ft long and weighs 8.3 tonnes.And it has every bit of modern navigation equipment known to man - from satellite phones to emergency position reporting beacons.
It took a team of 30 more than 30,000 hours to build B&Q over a period of seven months.
And the boat carries several sails, including a huge mainsail, and a selection of foresails, one of which is bigger than a singles tennis court.
The whole story is available at Team Ellen.
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