{"id":2863,"date":"2016-11-05T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T09:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2016-12-06T11:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T10:29:59","slug":"francis-joyon-espere-depart-dimanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/francis-joyon-espere-depart-dimanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Joyon hopes to set off on sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving in Brest on Friday afternoon, Francis Joyon and his crew on the maxi trimaran Idec Sport are hoping that conditions will be favorable for them launching, this Sunday, their attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy. Before setting off on this second try at beating the record for sailing around the world, non-stop and without outside assistance, the navigator from France\u2019s Eure-et-Loir department will be taking a close look, this Saturday, at weather conditions. The coming hours will be decisive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a9Mer et M\u00e9dia \/ Idec Sport<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cRegarding our departure date, I\u2019d say that we\u2019re 40 % likely to leave on Sunday,\u201d <\/em>declared Francis Joyon on Friday to the newspaper Ouest France<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re in no way certain about being able to leave quickly, but the boat is in position. We took four hours to come from La Trinit\u00e9. The boat went really fast. We got up to 37 knots, so that\u2019s really satisfying.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Because speed will definitely be necessary if the maxi trimaran Idec Sport is to beat the record set in 2011 by Lo\u00efck Peyron at the helm of Banque Populaire (45 days, 13 hours and 42 minutes).<\/p>\n

A good dose of confidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bear in mind that in 2015, Francis Joyon already made a first attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy, but missed out on beating the record when he crossed the finish line at Ushant in 47 days, 14 hours and 47 minutes. This time, Joyon and his crew show boundless determination and are dead set on having their names go down as winners of the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that it\u2019ll be a difficult challenge,\u201d<\/em> Francis Joyon confided 24 hours ago to Ouest France<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cThe<\/em> time that was achieved is quite remarkable, but we also know that we have a chance at succeeding because we\u2019re trained up, we have a good boat, we\u2019re a good team.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

All that the Idec Sport crew needs to do now is to pray that there will be wind on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Isabelle Trancoen (article translated from French)<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arriving in Brest on Friday afternoon, Francis Joyon and his crew on the maxi trimaran Idec Sport are hoping that conditions will be favorable for them launching, this Sunday, their attempt at the Jules Verne Trophy. Before setting off on this second try at beating the record for sailing around the world, non-stop and without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,29,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses-2016-2017","category-idec","category-joyon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3071,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/3071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tropheejulesverne.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}