2015 Jules Verne Trophy – Record attempt – Day 6 + Video
by Spindrift racing on 28 Nov 2015
Spindrift 2 - 2015 Jules Verne Trophy Yann Riou / Spindrift racing
2015 Jules Verne Trophy – By switching hemisphere at 0131hrs GMT (0231hrs French time), the crew on Spindrift 2 managed to break the five-day barrier for the Ushant-Equator course.
The new record time is now four days, twenty-one hours, twenty-nine minutes (the previous record held by Loïck Peyron and his crew on Banque Populaire V was five days fourteen hours and fifty-five minutes).
The first live video link with the boat was made for the occasion, with Jo Wilfried Tsonga as the guest. During their conversation, the French tennis player asked Yann Guichard particularly about life on board a 40-metre boat with 14 sailors. The trimaran is now en route to the Cape of Good Hope and must negotiate the southern hemisphere trade winds and the St Helena High.
15h15 GMT: 373 miles ahead of the current record holder
Distance covered from the start: 3697 miles
Average speed over 24 hours: 24 knots
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