The Maxi Trimaran Sodeb'o Beats The 24 Hour Record

摘要

Between the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands, the skipper Thomas Coville beat the single-handed 24-hour distance record on a multihull on Dec 7 evening at 1815 UT with a total distance of 620.80 miles covered at the average speed of 25.87 knots. The trimaran Sodeb 'O was making headway beam onto the wind in a 22 to 26 knot NN W'ly air flow with waves of 4 meters (13'). He has just broken his previous record set in the same zone on January 6th 2008. At that time he covered 619 miles in 25.80 knots. At the time of this writing, this new record has yet to be approved by the WSSRC.