Two records in one month, here is the challenge that Yvan Bourgnon had set himself. With his son Mathis, the navigator has just established a new reference time on the Crossing the Mediterranean and again on the Channel crossing.
Left Saturday, August 4 at 4 h 50 min 30 s from England on their Nacra F20, the two men reached Dinard on Sunday 5 August at around 0 h 40 min. With a provisional journey time of 19 h 47 min 31 s (awaiting validation by the WSSRC), they improved by about 12 h the previous record held by David Leon in 31 h 38 min 40 s.
Although they have beaten this challenge hands down a press release announces" Yvan & Mathis faced a capricious weather window, with light winds at the start, then again around Guernsey and Jersey, where they also had to slalom between headwinds."
Yvan Bourgnon wanted above all to establish a new time (he hoped to cross in 15 hours) to give a new challenge to the next sailors to try this challenge
