Thomas Coville, the veteran French solo offshore ocean racing sailor, today became the third skipper in the ULTIME class to finish the 2018 Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe yacht race from Saint Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre.
Colville’s race time was 16 days, seven hours, 45 minutes and 36 seconds. That includes a lengthy stopover of almost six days in La Coruna in northern Spain where repairs to the forward beam of his giant trimaran Sodebo Ultim’ were carried out.