Sodebo 3

Sodebo Ultim 3 therefore improves the record by 12 hours 44 minutes 40 seconds, setting it at 40 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes and 50 seconds. The giant trimaran covered 28,315 nautical miles at the incredible average speed of 27.17 knots.

The crew of the “Sodeboy’s” set off from Brest on Monday 15 December for a very special end-of-year programme: to try to beat the famous Jules Verne Trophy record set by Francis Joyon and his crew in 2017. Since then, eight attemptshave ended in failure due to damage - including three initiated by Sodebo Ultim 3 (one in 2020 and two in 2024)!

The 32-meter Ultim, skippered by Thomas Coville, has been thoroughly tested - launched in 2019 and regularly optimised since - and seemed to be keeping up the pace, as the seven crew members rounded Cape Horn with about ten hours in hand on the record. For Thomas Coville, it was the twelfth time this crossing - as mythical as it is symbolic - had been made… but that was not the case for his six crewmates. The sailors did not disappoint in the Atlantic, managing to keep their lead all the way to the finish. The final hours were not easy, however, with the sea state swept by Storm Ingrid - 45 to 50 knots of sustained wind with gusts to 55, and 8 to 9 meters of swell.

For the record, the first officially ratified Jules Verne Trophy record dates back to 1993; at that time, it took more than 79 days for Bruno Peyron and his men to complete a non-stop round-the-world via the three capes aboard Commodore Explorer.

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