Ocean Records - Route du Thé - Hongkong HKG-London GBR - Day 19

Carefully avoiding the St-Helena anticyclone, the Maxi-Trimaran 'IDEC' reached the southern trade winds accelerating to speeds around 25kn. Francis Joyon FRA and his team endeavour to deviate the innertropical convergence zone going West. ----- The latest estimated race time is 31 days, i.e. 5 days less as the previous record. The actual advance on the previous record this morning UTC was 674nm. ----- The race tracker and the news with videos.