Francis Joyon is set to depart on his attempt to regain the record currently held by Thomas Coville on the Trans Atlantic New York to Lizard route. Francis will need to maintain a higher than 20 knot average to retake the record.
The tracker for the attempt is here:
http://www.trimaran-idec.com/multimedia_cartographie.asp
From the following article:
http://www.trimaran-idec.com/actualite_article.asp?id=225
The rough Google translate is below:
Monday, June 10, 2013
Francis Joyon should depart tomorrow Tuesday 11 June in the early
hours of the day to the onslaught of the record for crossing the Atlantic in
a multihull and single-handed, aboard his maxi trimaran IDEC. It should
cross the historic departure of this mythical record line materialized by
Ambrose light in New York City between 2 hours and 8 French time. He must
then fight alone facing the Atlantic and up the Lizard to the Western tip of
Cornwall English during less than 5 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes and 40
seconds to inscribe his name on the shelves of the World Sailing Speed
Record Council and clear of the current holder, Thomas Coville. Francis
Joyon completed then a double feat, a title which he owned until 2008, and
especially to become the only man to hold the four world records the most
significant sailing and single-handed, World Tour, record the fastest speed
over 24 hours, Route de la Découverte and the North Atlantic record.
A window... correct!
"The weather window referred this night is... correct!" The expression is
Jean-Yves Bernot, the master of navigation at le grand large, attending
since always Francis Joyon in its greatest challenges sailing. In clear and
decoded, the conditions are conducive, certainly not ideal, but with enough
arguments to trigger an attempt. The two men watched from the France
development on the North American continent from depression of force and
trajectory that meet the requirements of a record become more difficult to
beat attempts. Francis Joyon has accumulated last weekend enough certainty
and conviction to board a plane destined for New York yesterday, and find
his large trimaran IDEC moored in the marina at Gateway in Brooklyn, New
York.
A possible start between 2 and 8 o'clock in the morning
Cleaning hulls, last refuelling, made as the accustomed alone and by itself,
and Joyon refine this evening by telephone the latest weather developments
with Jean-Yves Bernot, before evening the perilous trip to the starting line
and the former location of the legendary lighthouse of Ambrose at the
entrance of the Bay of New York, Lighthouse dismantled in 2008 following
numerous collisions, and now replaced by light buoys. A start officially
recorded between 2 and 8 o'clock in the morning French time would allow it
to benefit from the light of the end of American day to browse the delicate
miles ferry on the grand River New Yorkers. Depression in circulation on
Labrador should prevail in its winds sustained thirty knots, well oriented
to the South East is on an easily negotiable sea during at least the first
two thirds of the course. As is often the case in this record attempt, it is
the final approach phase on the British Isles, which contains the largest
batch of uncertainties. Wind is expected to pick this weekend and complicate
the task of the lone sailor. But the movement of this depression on a
sufficiently North Road should however allow IDEC to slide closer to the
direct route, and thus optimize its trajectory toward the entrance of the
English channel by accumulating the "effective" miles to Lizard.
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