A decade ago, if you said that a sail boat could cross the Atlantic in 3 days and some hours you’d have been laughed at,
....but now two boats could be heading for just that.
The maxi-trimarans Groupama 3 and Banque Populaire V are both chasing the trans-Atlantic record held by G3 with a time of 4 days 3 hours 57 minutes. Both were on track, putting in consistent Franck average speeds of over 32 knots. Both were aiming to ride ahead of a front coming from Canada. Now, Cammas has lost a bit of ground and it remains to be seen whether Pascal Bidégorry, who set out from New York a little over two and a half hours after Groupama 3, made a better call. G3 starting vid and pix here
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BPV starting video here.
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Video here:
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