Who keeps track of the record?
Before anyone thinks of trying this again they should read the account of 2 Hobie 18 sailers that survived the crossing!
http://users.tpg.com.au/kkmiller/hobie/across_atlantic.html
How much risk and pain are you willing to take? Takes a "special" type to do these kind of trips.
Crossing Oceans is still in s special category because of the lack of hope for help.
Good luck to Vittorio and Nico!
They are posting some cool videos on their YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/VittorioMalingri/videos
Before anyone thinks of trying this again they should read the account of 2 Hobie 18 sailers that survived the crossing!
That aint nothin!
These guys were real asskickers
http://www.helmdesign.com/polar-01.html
After 10 days the guys are about 140 miles from Guadeloupe
Here's the course.
They are only miles from the finish now, but losing rapidly on the track-record.
Here's a interesting link to all attempts, the first crossing was made on a H18
Magnum, in 1986.
http://www.sail.ie/misc/cats_atlantic.htm
Grtz, André
Edited by catmodding on Apr 20, 2017 - 03:40 PM.
Still has to be verified but they posted on Facebook
"We have crossed the finish line at point-Ã -Pitre at 12:19:47 UTC (Italian time 14:19:47). The new record is 11 days 1 HOUR AND 9 minutes. And it's ours!"
Old record set by Benot Lequin & Pierre-Yves Moreau in 2007 was 11d 11h 25m
I didn't realize that Vittorio Malingri, Nico Malingri, had done this before in 2008 in a time of 13d 17h 48m missing the record.
Congratulations!