The two sailors cast off with a double objective: to be the first to complete the formidable round the world trip from east to west on a multihull and to raise public awareness of the circular economy.
Only a handful of courageous people took on this immense challenge. And they are even less to have succeeded. In 2017, the last to have rubbed shoulders with it, Yves Le Blévec, finished the four irons in the air off Cape Horn, a float of his trimaran pulverized by gusts at 70 knots in hollows of six meters. After two failed attempts and the loss of his boat, the skipper of Actual preferred to branch off towards other more conventional challenges and postpone – if not forever – this “Impossible Voyage” so well told by Chay Blyth in a story published in 1972.
A few months earlier, the Briton had become the first navigator to achieve the feat: to circle the world from east to west, against the prevailing winds and currents. All this in 292 days, without making a stopover unlike the American pioneer Joshua Slocum, who made several stops in Australia and South Africa during his journey of more than three years at the end of the 19e century. After Blyth …
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