 The Transat is a 2,800 mile race from Plymouth, UK, to Boston, USA |
Michel Desjoyeaux is scheduled to finish the Transat single-handed yachting race on Tuesday, setting a new record in the process. Desjoyeaux is on course to break fellow Frenchman Francis Joyon's fastest north Atlantic crossing of nine days 23 hours, which was set in 2000.
On Monday his 60-foot trimaran Geant was 550 miles out from Boston.
Compatriots Thomas Coville (Sodebo) and Franck Cammas (Groupama) were 100 miles off the 2001 Vendee Globe winner.
But Switzerland's Bernard Stamm and Vincent Riou, of France, were forced out of the race.
Stamm, leading the monohull class, lost the keel on his 60-foot Cheminees Poujoulat-Armor.
He set off his distress beacon but was safe and unharmed, and organisers revealed he had been picked up by a small tanker called "Emma".
Riou's bid ended when his 60-foot PRB dismasted. He had been lying fourth in the monohull class.
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