We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. Top yachting photographer, Thierry Martinez, nominates B&Q Castorama\u201cFor me \u2018Moby\u2019, as Ellen MacArthur\u2019s trimaran was known, is one of the coolest yachts,\u201d says top yachting photographer, Thierry Martinez of Ellen\u2019s B&Q Castorama.
\n\u201cIn this photograph Ellen is 100 miles off the finish line at Ushant just before she broke her solo round the world record in 2005. I wasn\u2019t working for Ellen at this time, but I had followed her from the boat\u2019s launch in Sydney to the end of successful broken record.
\n\u201cThe trimaran was extra cool because it had two sides: one blue side with a French sponsor, and an orange side for an English sponsor. To shoot both sides was a challenge.
\nPhoto: Thierry Martinez
\n\u201cAs I used to work for international media, I needed both. It made life a bit harder for us, but it was a great marketing idea (by Ellen\u2019s business partner Mark Turner).
\n\u201cThere was a lot of emotion when I took this image a few hours before the finish line, as Ellen had not seen anybody else since the start, and I\u2019d been the last person she saw.\u201d
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\nB&Q Castorama stats rating:
\nTop speed: 32 knots
\nLOA: 75ft \/ 23m
\nLaunched: 2004
\nBerths: 1
\nPrice: \u00a31.2m
\nAdrenalin factor: 90%
\nThierry Martinez
\nYachting photographer Thierry Martinez has photographed the world\u2019s greatest sailors and toughest yachting competitions since he began covering the French La Poste team in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Race. He describes himself as \u2018focusing on the sailors more than the sailing machines, and still in love with this job\u2019. See thmartinez.com<\/p>\n
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We ask top sailors and marine industry gurus to choose the coolest and most innovative yachts of our times. Top yachting photographer, Thierry Martinez, nominates B&Q Castorama\u201cFor me \u2018Moby\u2019, as Ellen MacArthur\u2019s trimaran was known, is one of the coolest … <\/p>\n