SODEBO Dec 28 Jules Verne Trophy Round the World Sailing Speed Attempt. Nearing Kerguelens Report #3

Please Subscribe if you like our Global Sailing content, Like and Share. It helps us show our content to more sailors. Thank you. The Ultim Trimaran Sodebo 3, of Skipper Thomas Coville and his team, continue at record pace on their Jules Verne Trophy world circuit. The French team of Thomas Coville, Benjamin Schwartz, Frédéric Denis, Pierre Leboucher, Léonard Legrand, Guillaume Pirouelle, and Nicolas Troussel, have maintained record pace since their December 15 2025 start. As they pass Cape Good Hope after eleven days three hours, they are 1,270 nautical miles ahead of record pace set by Francis Joyon, on IDEC Sport, in 2017, who did it in 40 days 23 hours 30 minutes 30 seconds. Setting a new reference time between Ouessant, and Cap deBonne-Espérance, in 10 days 23 hours 56 minutes 57 seconds. Having covered 6,692 nautical miles they have 15,768 nautical miles to run.