Francis Joyon

Francis Joyon ( born May 28, 1956 in Hanches, Eure -et -Loir, France ) is a French offshore racing and record sailors. In 2004, he orbited the first solo sailors the world on a multihull, trimaran Idec, and put it one-handed speed records. Four years later he won with an even faster single-handed on the same boat again world records.

Joyon has repeatedly participated ocean races and won, among others, the well-known single-handed transatlantic race OSTAR in 2000, and the Fastnet Race 2001.

In 2008, Joyon was voile from the French Sailing Federation, the Fédération Française de, for Sailor of the Year ( marin de l' année ) appointed.

Life

Joyon learned to sail when he helped a 18 -year-old volunteer in the maintenance of boats and other material of the French sailing school Les Glénans. He subsequently studied with other sailing schools and eventually gained access to ocean racing. When he, lying in the harbor of La Trinité- sur -Mer in the often larger boats of ocean-going vessels, two disused found floating body of the catamaran Elf Aquitaine, he used them to build his own boat.

When the professionalization of ocean racing grew and demanded that the sailors more and more marketing to Joyon was looking for its own account a niche in order to continue (only ) to provide for the sailing in the foreground, even if he then get less money from sponsors. In 1996, Joyon in the well-known single-handed transatlantic race OSTAR ( The Europe 1 STAR ) yet with a lead of 24 hours until his trimaran Banque Populaire capsized off Nova Scotia. Joyon won the next edition of the regatta (The Europe 1 New Man STAR ), in 2000. Followed a year later, the victory in the Fastnet Race 2001.

In the following years, Joyon especially the single-handed sailing record turned to on maxi trimarans. ( Ex - designed Sport Elec, for six to seven people) On Idec, he circumnavigated the world in 2004 in 72 days, setting a new record ( see below). When Ellen MacArthur undercutting the time the following year, again in 2008 Joyon sailed around the world alone and decreased the single-handed best time to less than 58 days.

Services

Racing success

  • 2010: 1st place in the Round the Iceland Race ( s) ( class of multihulls - Grand Prix) on Idec ( Team: Christophe Houdet, Rodney Pattison, Bertrand et Cudenec Roger Gianovelli )
  • 2nd place in the Route du Rhum on Idec
  • 6th place in the Route du Rhum
  • 2nd place in the Route des Phares
  • 4th in the Transat Jacques Vabre
  • 2nd place in the Grand Prix du Port de Fécamp
  • 4th place at the Course de l'Europe
  • 5th place in the ORMA Championship
  • 2nd place in the Transat Québec -Saint -Malo
  • 3rd place in the Open UAP on Banque Populaire
  • 2nd place in the Transat Jacques Vabre on Banque Populaire
  • 3rd place in the Open UAP on BPO
  • 3rd place in the Transat Jacques Vabre

Speed records

  • 2009: L' Odyssée the épices (French for " Odyssey of spices ", named after the spice trade during the French colonies in Asia) between the French island of Mauritius and Groix: 26 days 4 hrs 13 min 29 sec ( first reference time ever)
  • Single-handed circumnavigation of the globe: 57 days 13 hrs 34 min 6 sec
  • Single-handed North Atlantic crossing in east-west direction ( Ruta del Descubrimiento: Cadiz / Spain to San Salvador / Dominican Republic): 9 days 20 hrs 35 min 3 sec
  • One-hand channel crossing: 6 hrs 23 min 36 sec
  • Handed verse applies route in 24 hours ( Etmal ): 616.07 nautical miles ( not recognized by the WSSRC; undercut 6 January 2008 by Thomas Coville during which Weltumsegelungs attempt to Sodebo: 619.30 nautical miles, an average of 25.80 knots)
  • Brest- equator - one-handed set up, but at the same time broke the previous team record: 6 days 16 hrs 58 min
  • Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin - handed set up, but at the same time broke the previous team record: 7 days 8 hrs 12 min
  • Single-handed crossing of the Indian Ocean: 9 days 12 hrs 3 min
  • One-hand route Brest- Cape of Good Hope: 15 days 7 hrs 16 min (total, including crew boats, second best time for Brest- Cape of Good Hope to Bruno Peyron with Orange 2, 2004: 14 days, 5 hours 21 minutes < / ref >
  • Single-handed crossing of the Pacific Ocean: 10 days 14 hrs 25 min
  • Handed verse applies route in 24 hours ( Etmal ): 542.7 nautical miles ( 2008 Joyon itself is improved, broken in 2008 by Thomas Coville )
  • Single-handed North Atlantic Crossing (New York - Lizard Point ): 6 days 4 hours 1 min 37 sec (2008 by Thomas Coville broken: 5 days 19 hrs 29 min 20 sec)
  • Single-handed circumnavigation of the globe ( for the first time in a multihull ): 72 days 22 hrs 54 min 22 sec (2005 broken by Ellen MacArthur and improved in 2008 by Joyon itself)
  • Single-handed North Atlantic crossing in east-west direction ( Ruta del Descubrimiento: Cadiz / Spain to San Salvador / Dominican Republic): 11 days 3 hrs 17 min 20 sec (2005 broken by Thomas Coville, recaptured in 2008 by Joyon )
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