Coville Claims West-East Transatlantic Record

Thomas Coville sailed his 105-ft trimaran Sodeb’O past the Lizard 5 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes after leaving New York, taking eight and a half hours off the previous singlehanded west-east transatlantic record set by Francis Joyon in IDEC 1 in 2005. Coville was able to beat the record despite a high pressure system that slowed him considerably toward the end of the trip. Sleeping an estimated two hours in the first three days, he kept the pedal down the whole way across — barely taking a break during the final 48 hours to the finish.