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Frenchman Coville, 48, crossed a finish line off Brittany on
Sunday after a voyage of 49 days three hours seven minutes and
38 seconds in his 31-metre trimaran, slashing more than eight
days off the previous record, according to his sponsor Sodebo.
"I've been working on it for 10 years ... the emotion is
intense," he told news channel LCI after arriving in Brest.
It was Coville's fifth attempt to beat a record set in 2008 by
Francis Joyon, another Frenchman, who sailed round the world in
57 days and 13 hours. Coville's Sodebo Ultim yacht achieved an
average speed of 24.1 knots.
"Mentally I had my highs and my lows but I knew where I wanted
to get to," he told Le Parisien newspaper after a voyage in
which he said he did not sleep more than three hours at a
stretch. "Physically I could not have gone much further."
(Reporting by Andrew Callus; editing by Amlan Chakraborty and
David Clarke)
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