Huge congrats to Thomas Coville @Sodebo_Voile for sailing solo round the world
in less of 50 days, arriving on Xmas day.
From Sailing Anarchy
When Francis Joyon took nearly two weeks
off the solo RTW record in 2008, we figured it would be a long, long
time before anyone became king of that particularly mountain.
Today, a
new king will be crowned in what should go down as the most impressive
feat of the year.
Beating solo world record by more than 8 days isn’t just smashing it - its epic!
Thomas Coville is set to take more than a week off of Joyon’s still incredible mark when he arrives in Brest in a couple of hours, achieving a time that would beat even the crewed records until just a few years ago.
It’s interesting to note that fewer people have sailed around the world
alone, nonstop in a trimaran than have walked on the moon – just Ellen
Macarthur, Francis Joyon, and Coville, and each of them now have owned
that all-important trophy.
Coville, along with his sponsor –
convenience-store-sandwich-maker Sodebo – deserve massive accolades, and
not just for the second-most important ocean sailing record in the
world: Their perseverence and tenacity has been nothing short of
incredible!
This is Thomas’ 6th attempt at
the same record, and to come back and do it again after just the sheer
heartbreak of missing it by just hours in 2014 – that’s the stuff of
legends.
If you want to understand
what it means to the French to have such ownership of the most important
records in the sport, watch this video of a French naval pilot talking to Thomas a couple of hours ago.
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