Currently midway between the Cape of Good Hope and the Kerguelen Islands, skipper Thomas Coville has become the single-handed 24-hour distance record holder on a multihull. Yesterday evening (7 December) at 18:15 GMT Thomas covered a total distance of 620.80 miles at the average speed of 25.87 knots.

The trimaran Sodeb’O is making headway beam onto the wind in a 22 to 26 knot north-northwesterly airflow with waves of 4 metres. He has just broken his previous record set in the same zone on 6 January 2008. At that time he covered 619 miles in 25.80 knots.

The wind is filling in so the record is set to continue to increase over the coming hours.