Ellen Macarthur and her team are taking the world record breaking trimaran B&Q/Castorama up the Thames to Greenwich, London, to thank all the supporters that followed them on their non stop round the world trip.

They will be parking up beside that other great record breaking sailing ship, the Cutty Sark, (built in Scotland, named after poet Robert Burns's short skirted demoness) at Greenwich, which, if you have read Longitude by Dava Sobel, was where the scientists who first allowed global navigation to be carried out safely worked.

If you're around London, go see them. I wish I could.

Dave L