It's over - Thomas Coville about to finish, but not with a record

6:39 AM Wed 30 Mar 2011 GMT

'Sodeb'O - a great effort, but the weather was against him' Jean Claude Figenwald

It's over. French sailor Thomas Coville set off on Saturday 29 January in the morning, offshore of the Cr?ac'h lighthouse on Ushant, a French Island in the English Channel to try, for the second time, to best the record of fellow Frenchman Francis Joyon for a solo round world voyage, set in 2005 at 59+ days. In 2008, he had made the attempt, missing by two days. Since then he had worked on his boat Sodebo, making her faster, stronger. Finally in January, he thought he had a chance. The weather, however, had other ideas. In the Pacific it was ...

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