Ronnie Simpson breaks down an amazing feat taking place in the Atlantic as we speak\u2026<\/p>\n
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They say round-the-world record attempts are often won and lost in the Atlantic, and thus far, Francois Gabart and his 100-foot trimaran\u00a0MACIF\u00a0<\/em>are off to a cracking start and making steady 700+ mile per day progress down the Atlantic. #winning. The objective is Thomas Coville\u2019s less-than-one-year-old solo round-the-world record of 49 days 3 hours 4 minutes onboard\u00a0Sodebo Ultim<\/em>. It took Coville no fewer than four attempts, legendary skill, a new whip and a miracle weather window across the Indian (and much of the Southern) Ocean to knock an incredible week-plus off of Francis Joyon\u2019s old record.<\/p>\n To say that his record is going to be tough to break would be an understatement, but if there\u2019s one person on earth who can do it at the moment, it\u2019s Francois Gabart. Everything the kid has touched in his career has turned to gold. With wins in the Vend\u00e9e Globe, Route du Rhum, Transat Jacques Vabre, setting the 24 hour solo distance, and more, \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 Gabart has proven himself to be nearly unbeatable since entering the solo arena; a protege of Desjoyeaux himself. Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ronnie Simpson breaks down an amazing feat taking place in the Atlantic as we speak\u2026 They say round-the-world record attempts are often won and lost in the Atlantic, and thus far, Francois Gabart and his 100-foot trimaran\u00a0MACIF\u00a0are off to a cracking start and making steady 700+ mile per day progress down the Atlantic. #winning. The objective is Thomas Coville\u2019s less-than-one-year-old solo round-the-world record of 49 days 3 hours 4 minutes onboard\u00a0Sodebo Ultim. It took Coville no fewer than four attempts, legendary skill, a new whip and a miracle weather window across the Indian (and much of the Southern) Ocean to knock an incredible week-plus off of Francis Joyon\u2019s old record. To say that his record is going to be tough to break would be an understatement, but if there\u2019s one person on earth who can do it at the moment, it\u2019s Francois Gabart. Everything the kid has touched in his career has turned to gold. With wins in the Vend\u00e9e Globe, Route du Rhum, Transat Jacques Vabre, setting the 24 hour solo distance, and more, \u2018Golden Boy\u2019 Gabart has proven himself to be nearly unbeatable since entering the solo arena; a protege of Desjoyeaux himself. Read more.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29315"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29325,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315\/revisions\/29325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}