Francis Joyon is back in business. Aboard his maxi trimaran IDEC, already holder of three prestigious records alone: around the world, road of discovery and Record of 24 hours – from browser has this North Atlantic chrono time in his line of sight and why not improved his timing on the Route de la découverte.
Francis Joyon and IDEC are back for a 2013 campaign that looks rich in emotions. Before thinking of the Route du Rhum 2014 – where the fight in fleet with new applicants as Lionel Lemonchois and Armel Le Cléac ‘ h will be superb and furious – Francis Joyon has for main ambition this year to delight to Thomas Coville North Atlantic Record. That is the only one of four major records currently lacking on its prestigious list.
Meanwhile, Thomas Coville has already left on the Route de la Découverte, between Cadiz and San El Salvador. Francis Joyon could heat up on this route (Thomas Coville the bat or not) to try to improve his own time: 9 days, 20 hours, 35 minutes and 03 seconds for 3884 miles on the direct route, time set in November 2008.
The only record that is missing its top!
Francis Joyon to this day the distinction of being both the solitary sailor the fastest around the world (57 days and 13 hours…) and the fastest 24-hour, with his astonishing record of the day established last summer 668 nautical miles (average time of 27.83 nodes!) is almost sixty miles more than the previous chrono…
North Atlantic Record will constitute his major objective 2013. In July 2005, Francis Joyon and IDEC had improved a day (6 days and 4 hours) the ‘old’ record of the trimaran Primagaz of Laurent Bourgnon, which dated from 1994. Three years later, in July 2008, Thomas Coville had beaten this same chrono in 5 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 20 seconds, an average of 20.97 nodes. Spinning at more than 21 knots on the crossing of the Atlantic, this is so the bar for IDEC and Francis Joyon. And Francis was a great revenge to take on this course: in his attempt of 2011, maxi red trimaran capsized shortly after the departure from New York. If the case is anything but a formality