After passing Ecuador, Coville on the basis of the Jules Verne Trophy record

After a first aborted attempt, the crew of the Sodebo Ultim 3 is this time well into the Jules Verne Trophy. At 12:56 a.m. in the night from Wednesday to Thursday, Thomas Coville and the six men of his crew (Frédéric Denis, Pierre Leboucher, Léonard Legrand, Guillaume Pirouelle, Benjamin Scwartz, Nicolas Troussel) crossed the Equator in 5 days 3 hours 21 minutes and 18 seconds, with a lead of 15 hours and 37 minutes over the world record of Francis Joyon and the Idec crew Sports.