Solo sailing circumnavigator in more setbacks for world record

11:29 PM Fri 18 Mar 2011 GMT

'Sodebo course against that of IDEC, whom he has to beat to set a new record' .

Sadly, French solo sailor Thomas Coville on his trimaran Sodebo have once again dropped significantly behind the pace necessary for him to set a new round world record for a circumnavigation. Struggling to get past Recife, the most easterly point of South America, he is significantly behind where Francis Joyon was at this time of his voyage. A number of things are going against him at the moment, and it increasingly looks as though it could be a race right to the finish. Recently he had a collision with what one can only imagine was a pilot whale, leaving some ...

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by Sail-World Cruising