I’m bumping this. I can’t believe there is no discussion here, an amazing story is playing out in the southern ocean. After 20 days Idec is now almost 2000 miles ahead of Ellen’s pace and is very near the pace of the much larger fully crewed Orange II. After passing the Cape of Good Hope his router told him to put the peddle down to delay the time he would be forced to slow down as a low pressure system overtook him. Joyon never did let the low catch him, he broke the single handed 24 hr. record, then broke it again and then broke it again. It now stands at 616.07 miles. That’s averaging over 25 kts. day and night.
No doubt an astonishing feat is unfolding before our eyes. This man is a mad-man single handed sailor and he is on pace to set a record that will likely stand for a long time in a boat that is very close to the limits of one human being to control it (without the aid of hydraulics or electro-mechanical systems)
I blogged about him this morning at
www.teamseacats.com
