World-record violation circumnavigator heads home to France
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PARIS, FRANCE: Sailor Thomas Coville was due to arrive in a French pier of Brest on Monday hours after outstanding a universe record for a single-handed uninterrupted sailing circumnavigation of a globe.
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Frenchman Coville aged 48, crossed a finish line off a Brittany seashore on Sunday after a excursion of 49 days 3 hours 7 mins and 38 seconds, slicing some-more than 8 days off a prior record in his 31-metre trimaran multihull, according to his unite Sodebo.
It was Coville’s fifth try to kick a record set in 2008 by Francis Joyon, another Frenchman.
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His Sodebo Ultim yacht achieved an normal speed of 24.1 knots. “Mentally we had my highs and my lows though we knew where we wanted to get to,” he told Le Parisien journal in an talk after a excursion in that he pronounced he did not nap some-more than 3 hours during a stretch.
“Physically we could not have left most further,” he added.
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