Ellen MacArthur

You know, I remember teaching s- students for the unseen GCSE English language paper.

I remember one year an unseen reading paper came up about Ellen MacArthur, the sailor, and another year one came up about Joe Calzaghe, the boxer.

Yeah.

Y- you know, just the background knowledge for those two suits different groups of stud- students.

So what are the implications in terms of how we teach? Enormous numbers of implications.

Yeah.

And again, I think what I do find quite frustrating is a lot of people when they come across this study or when I give them that Ellen MacArthur, Joe Calzaghe example, they'll go, "Oh, yeah.

You know, that makes total sense." Like, some kids are gonna do better on the Ellen MacArthur than the Joe Calzaghe.

Therefore, I was like, the weight of the food came like this.

I also looked at the Ellen MacArthur, who was the round-the-world yachtswoman who's dating Ellen MacArthur now.

She used polyphasic sleeping.

And I thought part of the reason that Henry Worsley had become a cropper was because he – he was doing these long, long days on just two, because he could only boil so much water in the morning.

Sorry, melt so much snow in the morning.

And therefore he was chronically dehydrated and slightly and chronically malnourished in my opinion as well.

So I was like, right, I'm going to address the nutrition, but I'm also going to address the the length of the days and so I flew to Rome and and and and consulted Ellen MacArthur's polyphasic sleeping expert and so I but I then was like okay well I want to do multiple little naps throughout the day and then basically break explode the whole 24-hour day thing because it's daylight all the time but then I was like okay but this is crazy but the um but the putting your tent up and taking it down multiple times is not only time consuming, but it's also quite dangerous because if your tent blows away, you're gone, aren't you? And so I devised this This Polk that was also a sleeping pod.

So it had a door in the back.

yeah.

Yous have both been on Ellen MacArthur's sailing trip.

Andrew, do you want to talk a little bit about what that involves? Yeah.

For those that don't know.

And so as a child, yeah, I think there was all of that.

I then, when I was at university, watched Ellen MacArthur sail around the world.

What was that, February 2005? And that, amongst other inspirations when I was a young adult, you know, made me think, well,

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And watching that documentary is a reminder of just how backwards the sport was then, and in some areas still is.

There's still a long way to go, but we've got... equal numbers of participants in the olympic classes these days and sailing was one of the first sports to get to that we've got an element of female participation in sail gp and america's cup but in ocean racing we've seen with so many of the french legends over the years as well as a few british legends that i know a little bit better like sam davies who was competing on dmg maury and Ellen MacArthur and Cole Brower from the US has become a big star there.

It's one of the areas of the sport where men and women have been able to compete on equal terms for some decades already.

And it's great to see the ocean race pushing forwards with that gender equity.

It's like that.

Ellen MacArthur.

Ellen MacArthur.

You read my mind.

She, uh-