Class 40-rekord: 377.7 nm på 24 timmar!

Imponerande av Sorel/Carpentier att snitta 15.7 knop över ett dygn sin Class 40. V&B är en Mach 40.3, och man var ju redan i augusti snabbaste Class 40 från Fastnet till mål med exakt samma snittfart (alla siffror här).

Toppfarterna verkar ligga upp mot 30 knop. Inte illa!

The ferocious pressure in the air, on the water and in the boats in this 13th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre saw the Class40, V and B, break the 24-hour speed record today (Friday).

French skippers Maxime Sorel and Antoine Carpentier, in second place on V and B traveled 377.7 nautical miles between Thursday, November 9, 07:30 (UTC) and Friday, November 10 (07:30) at an average speed of 15.7 knots.

As if the Anglo-Spanish and French rivalry at the front of the Class40 fleet needed any more stoking. British skipper Phil Sharp and his Catalan co-skipper Pablo Santurde, the leaders on Imerys Clean Energy will be doubly conscious of V and B’s speed as the previous record was held by Thalès II, skippered by Gonzalo Botin and Santurde. They travelled 373.3 miles at 15.56 knots average on July 16, 2016 during the Transat Quebec-Saint-Malo.