Grands Records - Geronimo Returns To The Atlantic
07 April 20:30

PARIS, 7 April (AFP) - Olivier de Kersauson and his crew on board their giant trimaran Geronimo returned to the Atlantic at 17:45 on Wednesday (Paris time - 15:45 GMT) as they rounded Cape Horn (the extreme tip of South America), according to the press service for the Breton sailor.

Kersauson has taken 41 days, 16 hours and 27 minutes to cover the distance from Ushant to the Horn. And it's not been an easy ride all the way. The men on board Geronimo were manoeuvring the boat all day Wednesday and took an unusually southerly route to pass over 100 nautical miles from this famous "boulder".

The same source confirmed that this southerly route and the weather forecasts for coming days mean that Geronimo will be passing the Falkland Islands to port.
The giant catamaran Cheyenne, skippered by American Steve Fossett, which set a new round-the-world record (of 58 days, 9 hours, 32 minutes and 45 seconds), passed through here in 39 days,16 hours and 15 minutes, although Orange (skippered by Frenchman Bruno Peyron on his Jules Verne Trophy record-setting voyage of 2002 - 64 days, 08 hours, 37 minutes, 24 seconds) managed it in 42 days, 2 hours and 52 minutes.

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