Game changer

Thomas Coville and his team aboard the foiling Ultim trimaran Sodebo-3 have set a new non-stop record around the world and in doing so has taken the Jules Verne Trophy.

The team's new record pace takes over 12 hours off the previous record and yet impressive though it is, the achievement represents a great deal more.

In the closing stages severe weather came close to derailing the campaign and put huge amounts of pressure on the team.

Since the record was set in 2017 there have been 13 unsuccessful attempts at beating it, Coville accounted for three of them, that's how hard this record is to achieve and why Coville's success is seen as such a major achievement.

But still there is more to this Jules Verne season - This is a story of not one but two campaigns. The second trimaran, IDEC Sport had set the previous record and now known as The Famous Project, was attempting its own non-stop lap. If successful they too would enter the record books as the first ever all women crew to complete a non-stop lap pf the planet.

But they too were facing a serious dilemma as to how best to handle the weather that was threatening to block their path at best and derail their entire campaign at worst.

So, in part 3 of our Jules Verne coverage we look at how the final stages of the two Jules Verne attempts played out.