“I practically covered twice the normal route… but I got there in the end!”
09:34 am: The new record time wasn’t yet showing on the race control board, but that wasn’t important. What is, however, is that it now stands at 94 days, 21 hours, and 58 minutes. Twenty-two years after Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, Guirec Soudée has broken the record for the sailing “the wrong way” around the world by 28 days aboard his big trimaran MACSF. Multihulls World was there to welcome him home at Brest Harbor in Brittany, and to share the experience as he stepped ashore, and to tour his multihull.
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Published on 30/03/2026
By
Emmanuel van Deth
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Finish line Live - The Short - MACSF Walkthrough
Just in case, I’d organized to arrive in Brittany almost 24 hours ahead of the ETA announced two days earlier - I’d underestimated the work of route planner Christian Dumard… Still, as night fell over the Breton city, I imagined the pressure Guirec must have been feeling as he approached the shipping lanes and the coast, his home. Hanging on a little longer despite 35-knot gusts and a 10 to 15-foot (3 to 4-meter) swell, not breaking anything, not making any mistakes, and finally crossing the line between…
![Guirec Soudée Record | MACSF [Walkthrough/Visite Guidée] | Multihulls World](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/medias/vignette/65000/guirec_arrivee_081.jpg.avif?itok=2MgwsR2J)
