Since departing on Monday, December 15 the French crew have set not one but two new benchmark times for the opening passages of the around-the-world route.
Coville’s men took just four days, four hours, two minutes, and 25 seconds to complete the first stage from the official Jules Verne Trophy start line off Ouessant, France to the Equator – a feat that saw them better the previous fastest time achieved by Yann Guichard’s Spindrift crew in 2019 by 15 hours and 54 minutes.
More importantly for the Sodebo sailors is the fact that they crossed into the southern hemisphere one day, 14 hours and 56 minutes faster than the current Jules Verne Trophy holders – Francis Joyon’s IDEC SPORT crew – did when they set the round-the-world record back in 2017.
