Don't miss the Jules Verne trophy. It's looking good right now. Watch them weave through the southern Ocean. Hooked into a good low right now. 631.9 NM ahead of IDEC Sport's 2017 record run. www.gitana-team.com/en/
12 days in and a day ahead of record pace. Seems to have just fallen off the back of that low pressure. IDEC Sport ( virtual, shown in red) apparently surfed one pressure system for quite a ways when circling Antarctica
There was a great article on one of the French sites about this recently. Apparently Idec just sat infront of a low for almost a week. A situation where you don't want to go too fast and outrun the low. Gitana was slowing down as they sailed out of the breeze infront of a low. They did say Idec got very lucky with that particular low and was definately one of the big contributing factors to them breaking the record.
