Sailing Magazine
Pic by Henri Thibault / DPPI
By Richard Crockett
Today we read about yachts (can we really call them that?) doing 50 knots on foils and singlehanders racing around the world non-stop in a mere 64 days. It makes the record that ‘Cheyenne’ set in 2004 appear to be somewhat pedestrian!
The opening paragraph of the report on her records reads as follows: “58 days 9 hours 32 minutes 45 sees after taking the start on February 7th, American skipper Steve Fossett and his international crew of 12 aboard the 125-foot maxi-catamaran Cheyenne crossed the official WSSRC start-finish line at Le Stiff lighthouse on the French island of Ouessant (Ushant). They have just demolished the two year old Round The World Sailing record – by almost 6 days (an improvement of 5d 23h 4m 39s). Their time topples the May, 2002 mark of Bruno Peyron and Orange I – and fulfils Fossett’s decade-old ambition to achieve ‘the most important record in sailing’
pic by Fossett Ocean Challenge/DPPI
Aboard ‘Cheyenne’ was South African Nick Leggatt who penned a delightful account of their record-breaking circumnavigation.
READ IT ALL HERE: Pages from 2004 05 – SAILING Magazine – OCR
