Another challenge for Bourgnon

Yvan Bourgnon never ceases to surprise us. After his singlehanded round the world trip in a sport cat, then the Northwest Passage singlehanded, without assistance and again in a sport cat – 7,500 km among the ice and polar bears in 70 days on the most inhospitable seas on the planet - Yvan has just made his new challenge official. And it is enormous, as it concerns the last big record that no one has yet succeeded in adding to their list: round the world in a multihull via the three Capes ‘the wrong way’, against the winds and the current. A huge challenge, which he is going to attempt aboard the former IDEC, with which Francis Joyon beat 9 records, and which is now in San Francisco after having been sold to the Chinese skipper, Guo Chuan.

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