Florence Arthaud (28 October 1957 – 9 March 2015) was a French sailor from Boulogne-Billancourt.
She was the daughter of Jacques Arthaud, director of the Arthaud publishing house. At age 17, she was in a
serious car accident, which resulted in paralysis. She was hospitalized for 6months and her recovery took 2years.
She had a daughter with Loïc Lingois, a French professional sailor. In 1989, she recorded a song, "Flo",
with Pierre Bachelet about her sailing. In 1990, she won the Route du Rhum for Pierre 1er.
In 1997, she won the Transpacific with Bruno Peyron.She sailed in the 1989–90 Whitbread Round
the World Race on board Charles Jourdan.In 1990, Arthaud established a new world record for the
fastest solo crossing of the North Atlantic, beating the previous record by two days.In 2014, she took part
in Sea Shepherd's "GrindStop" campaign against pilot-whale whaling in the Faroe Islands
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