Pure Respect

Pure respect to Francis Joyon sailing the IDEC trimaran! From the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Leeuwin he needed 7 days 8 hours 12 minutes. This is over 3 days faster than current record holder Ellen Macarthur. Even more impressive is that he was 21 minutes faster than Orange II the current Jules Verne record holder which was fully crewed!

As he passed Cape Leeuwin he sent this classy message:

“I’m at the longitude of Cape Leeuwin at 01.33h UTC. IDEC is 1100 south of Australia. In reality, I am much closer to Antarctica and the temperature on board let’s one know that! To be precise, I’m 400 miles from the ice floes and 770 miles from the white continent itself, where the names of explorers like Shackleton and Dumont d' Urville are written. So far, the Antarctic has not been subjected to man’s greed, but let us hope that we will succeed in checking the global warming that would destroy its floes and wild life before destroying us. Here, it is fog, drizzle and mist; even the stormy petrels have disappeared in this cotton blanket.”