Francois Gabart aboard the high-tech Macif has seized victory among the four trimarans that were racing across the Atlantic from the French coast. The Bridge 2017 Centennial race of the huge sailing ships commemorates the first landing in France of US troops during World War I in June 1917.
Gabart made the crossing from the French port of Saint-Nazaire in eight days and 31 minutes – a full 11 hours and 18 minutes ahead of around-the-world record holder Francis Joyon, at the helm of the Idec. Read More