Solo sailor circumnavigator still can't take a trick

5:51 AM Sat 5 Mar 2011 GMT

'Sodebo&rsquo;s course - showing how far behind - and how far north - he is compared to current record holder Francis Joyon&rsquo;s position at the same stage of his journey' .

French solo sailor Thomas Coville, trying to be the fastest to sail around the world solo, just can't seem to take a trick. It's the weather - but isn't that all the time? Weather is god on the ocean, and sometimes it's just weather-luck that makes the difference between a mundane voyage and a spectacular one. This time it's the ice - inclement winds and currents have caused a giant area of ice in the eastern Pacific section of the Southern Ocean to make him climb north, and further north and still further north, making his voyage so long that ...

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by Nancy Knudsen