Like announced in my previous Armel le Cléac’h loses his pole position. Dick has perfect wind conditions and exploits them as max, covering 499 miles in the last 24 hours he has beaten the single-handed speed record on an Open 60 monohull with more than 30 miles !
The record still has to be validated by ‘World Sailing Speed Record Council‘.
UPDATE :
Jean-Pierre Dicks beat his own record : 502, 53 milles in 24 hours == 20,9 knots average speed !
Top 3 all going at speeds above 20 kts, busy and not much sleeping over there.
See Rankings …
The top 5 ranking 5 hours (4h UTC)
1 – Jean-Pierre Dick (Virbac Paprec 3) 18,806.8 miles from the finish
2 – Armel Le Cléac’h (Banque Populaire) for 0.8 miles (DTL)
3 – François Gabart (MACIF) to 25.8 miles (DTL)
4 – Bernard Stamm (Cheminées Poujoulat) to 84.4 miles (DTL)
5 – Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) to 97.2 miles (DTL)