Richard Branson is claiming 24 miles, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/active/7...itesurfing-English-Channel-crossing.html

Previous record was over a much longer course, 115 miles, details here: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.karinebaillet.com/news/actualites/252/Yvan-Bourgnon-et-Karine-Baillet-defient-la-Manche-en-catamaran-de-sport.html

I think it can be broken to sub 5 hours. It won't be easy, but we do these things not because they are easy but because they are hard.