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Vendée Globe – First Cape Horn for Jérémie Beyou

by Vendée Globe on 27 Dec 2016
First Cape Horn for Jérémie Beyou - Vendée Globe Francois Van Malleghem / DPPI / Vendée Globe
At 1344 hrs UTC on Tuesday 27th December 2016, Jérémie Beyou (Maître CoQ) rounded Cape Horn in third place in the Vendée Globe. It took him 51 days one hour and 42 minutes since the race started on 6th November in Les Sables d'Olonne.

This was four days, one hour and ten minutes after Banque Populaire VIII (Armel Le Cleac'h) and two days, two hours and two minutes after Hugo Boss (Alex Thomson).

This is the first time that Jérémie Beyou has rounded Cape Horn in his sailing career.
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