He’s got the sailing prowess of Michel Desjoyeaux, the sponsor skills of Alex Thomson, and the looks of a goddamned underwear model, and Francois Gabart and the foiling Macif trimaran are on the verge of destroying the solo RTW record, The Golden Boy will incredibly be just a couple days outside the outright RTW record set by IDEC last year, and if not for IDEC, this solo effort would have also been a Jules Verne winner. By how much will Macif beat Peyron’s Banque Populaire Jules Verne run? Roughly 6 days, and we don’t know that there is any other human on the planet that could equal this singular accomplishment.
We’ll have the live finish up on the front page as soon as it’s available – check the thread for the very latest of everything.
