VIDEO: A minute of fury aboard Thomas Coville’s Sodebo Ultim 3 flying trimaran

 

VIDEO: A minute of fury aboard Thomas Coville’s Sodebo Ultim 3 flying trimaran

Strong training for the Jules Verne Trophy.

The departure date is approaching and it is better to take advantage of the possibilities to train again and again. Starting October 15, Thomas Coville’s crew will be waiting for the best weather window to try to break the record for going around the world in less than 40 days: the Jules Verne Trophy.

Meanwhile, he is tuning, training and already putting on a great show in southern Brittany, during the preparatory voyages that give an idea of ​​both the enormous progress of the giant and flying trimarans and the difficulties, also enormous. , which will meet the crews engaged in the planetary adventure.

The spectacular video of Sodebo Ultim 3, published by Thomas Coville’s team, shows the sailors in helmets facing the spray during training with an already strong wind, but still disproportionate to the much more violent depressions that these men will have to face , particularly in the Indian and Pacific oceans.