Yvan Bourgnon and Vincent Beauvarlet depart on their beach cat circumnavigation attempt

They have departed Les Sables D'olonne on the first leg of their round the world voyage on their specially designed and built beach cat "SMA 1er" they intend to transit through the Suez and Panama Canals.

The tracker is here:

http://defisma.com/suivi-en-temps-reel-du-defi-sma/

Their facebook page is here:

https://www.facebook.com/yvan.bourgnon

and the teams website is here:

http://defisma.com/