FRANCIS JOYON GOING FOR THE WORLD CIRCUMNAVIGATION SAIL RECORD

Francis Joyon, one of the top multihull skippers is just waiting for the right conditions to set sail on one more attempt at the world sailing circumnavigation record that belongs to Banque Populaire and Loick Peyron (45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds). Banque Populaire was crewed by 14, IDEC, Joyon's boat has a crew of only 6!!! They tried last year (with the same crew) and failed for about two days. IDEC is the "old" Groupama 3 with some modifications. Groupama 3 was the holder of the record (with Cammas - 2010) before Peyron took it away (2012). I wish them good look :-).