Return to the Torresen Marine Home Page

« News Home

« Previous Article: Mid Ocean Match Races
IDEC Turns Back Next Article »



Visit to our full Chicago to Mackinac Race Coverage celebrating 100 years of racing to Mackinac.

IDEC is Off


Having left New York this afternoon in order to reach the Ambrose light, Francis Joyon crossed the starting line of the W to E Transatlantic record at 19h03′36” GMT (15h03′36” local time). The trimaran set off at more than 15 knots, and the French skipper hoped to catch a more solid breeze further away from the coast.
To beat Laurent Bourgnon’s record, IDEC has to reach the Lizard (GB) before June the 2nd, at 21h37′16” GMT.

Share or bookmark this story:
[Digg] [Reddit] [del.icio.us] [Facebook] [Technorati] [Google] [StumbleUpon]

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 26th, 2005 at 5:58 pm and is filed under Main Stories. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Leave a Reply