Francis Joyon Transatlantic Record Update: Solo sailor Joyon is into the second day of his east/west transatlantic record run, and is right now weaving his way through the Canary Islands (hope he doesn’t hit any of the Vendee Globe racers…). Check out his position reports here. The big man is doing okay, sailing over 700 miles in 36 hours, for an average speed north of 19 knots (he needs to average about 17 knots to break PlayStation’s record of 9 days and 13 hours). But things get trickier as he makes the transition to the Trade winds. And its downwind from there. I’m almost willing to say that I’ll eat my laptop if Joyon breaks PlayStation’s record. Almost…



“What? Zimmermann said he’d eat his laptop? That I’d like to see. Sheet on…”

(Photo: F. Van Malleghem / Mer & Média)