Please select your home edition. World Europe Powerboat. World North America Powerboat. World Oceania FishingBoating. World Australia FishingBoating.
World New Zealand FishingBoating. While we've been pondering our summer sailing, this year's El Nino cycle has led to warm spells and big melt-offs at the ski hills. Normally, this is cause for fingerpicking the blues, but I've found myself so engrossed with the various offshore events unfurling around the globe that that my lack of powder turns hasn't seemed so bad.
Take, for example, skipper Charles Caudrelier's new solo passage record of just 8 days, 8 hours 20 minutes and 36 seconds to cross the Indian Ocean from South Africa's Cape Agulhas to the longitude of Tasmania, Australia.
That's an average pace of As the saying goes, luck is the confluence of preparation an opportunity, and there's zero question that Caudrelier, 49 and a two-time Volvo Ocean Race winner and one-time winning skipper , has been preparing for decades for this ongoing tour de force that he's playing out aboard his ' trimaran, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild.
West Coast time , Caudrelier enjoys a lead of 2, nautical miles over Thomas Colville, who is sailing alone aboard the ' trimaran Sobebo. Ponder that for a second. A lead of more than 2, nautical miles, in a race that started at the same time on the same day, and that's contested aboard relatively evenly paced foiling trimarans? That's like leading Transpac by more than the entire course. Six skippers began the Arkea Ultim Challenge on January 7, and while the boats are crazy fast, they are fragile creatures that are almost as wide as they are long and that employ foils that are vulnerable to impacts.
