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San Salvador, Bahamas - Francis Joyon of France has made land, and set a new world sailing record* for the Discovery Route from Cadiz, Spain.  With a time of 9 days, 20 hours, and 35 minutes, IDEC has beat the previous record set by Thomas Coville, and added yet another feat to Joyon's collection (Joyon also holds the 'round the world solo record).  This route is an approximation of the course that Columbus took in 1492 when it is often said he "discovered" the new world (though the Americas were already populated, and ha

Canary Islands - Francis Joyon left Cadiz, Spain yesterday, sailing his famous maxi-trimaran yacht IDEC for a new world trans-Atlantic record on the historic Discovery Route from Cadiz to San Salvador in the Bahamas - the same route it is assumed Christopher Columbus took in 1492. With the 'round the world solo record under his belt (set in January), Joyon is aiming to break the Discovery Route time set by Thomas Coville on Sodeb'O, and it's going to be a tough

Caligari, Sardinia, Italy - "If you go overboard, you're dead."  Some form of that is the mantra of many an ocean sailor, and particularly solo sailors.  The idea is to stay on the boat, no matter what.  So on Friday, during the solo (singlehanded) Cap Istanbul Race, when Matthieu Girolet came upon competing boat SIRMA flogging in the darkness with a torn spinnaker, the horror of what had happened was soon obvious.  SIRMA was empty, and her skipper Christophe Bouvet was somewhere out in the darkness, lost at sea.

San Francisco, California - We now have some details on the DNF for Wenlemir in the Singlehanded Transpac. The US Coast Guard told YachtPals today that Wen Lin of the Swan 47 yacht Wenlemir set off his EPIRB at 7 pm last Thursday evening, from about 135 miles off the coast of California.