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}} Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born 8 July 1976) is a retired British sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight. MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat which gained her international renown. Francis Joyon, the Frenchman who had held the record before MacArthur, recovered the record again in early 2008, beating MacArthur's record by nearly two weeks. Following her retirement from professional sailing on 2 September 2010, MacArthur announced the launch of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a charity that works with business and education to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. == Early life == MacArthur was born in Derbyshire where she lived with her parents, who were both teachers, and two brothers Fergus and Lewis. She acquired her early interest in sailing, firstly by her desire to emulate her idol at the time, Sophie Burke, and secondly by reading Arthur Ransome's ''Swallows and Amazons series'' of books. She has since become the Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust which owns and operates Ransome's yacht, ''Nancy Blackett''. Her first experience of sailing was on a boat owned by her aunt Thea MacArthur on the east coast of England. She saved her school dinner money for three years to buy her first boat, an eight-foot dinghy, which she named ''Threp'ny Bit'' even though decimalisation had taken place before she was born. She sellotaped a real 'threepenny bit' coin onto the bow. MacArthur attended Wirksworth County Infants and Junior Schools and the Anthony Gell School and also worked at a sailing school in Hull.〔Daily Mail Weekend Interview. 20 May 2012, p6〕 When she was 17, MacArthur bought a Corribee and named it ''Iduna''; she described the first moment she saw it as "love at first sight". In 1995 she sailed ''Iduna'' single-handed on a circumnavigation of Great Britain. In 1997 she finished 17th in the Mini Transat solo transatlantic race after fitting out her 21 ft (6.4 m) Classe Mini yacht ''Le Poisson'' herself while living in a French boatyard. She was named 1998 British Telecom/Royal Yachting Association "Yachtsman of The Year" in the UK and "Sailing's Young Hope" in France. Asteroid 20043 Ellenmacarthur is named after her.〔http://www.ipa.nw.ru/PAGE/DEPFUND/LSBSS/ALF/21.htm〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ellen MacArthur」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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