Exhausted MacArthur battles rounds Cape Horn

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2005

LONDON (AFP) — British sailor Ellen MacArthur was 4 days 2hr 45min ahead of Francis Joyon's 72-day round-the-world record pace when she rounded the legendary Cape Horn.

MacArthur has 7,000 miles left and must finish on February 9 to break the record of 72 days 22 hours 54 minutes and 22 seconds Joyon set last February.

She took a record 44 days 23hr 36min to complete the solo trek to Cape Horn.

Her website reported the 28-year-old collapsed with fatigue after battling storms on her 75-foot trimaran BetQ for the last two days.

She has 28 days to complete the final 7,000 miles, a section of the course that took Joyon 23 days.

She said before rounding Cape Horn she would be relieved to get out of the Southern Ocean and played down her chances of...