It took just 94 days for Guirec Soudée’s name to go down in sailing history: On December 23, 2025, the 34-year-old Breton set sail off the coast of Ouessant aboard his 31-metre-long and 21-metre-wide maxi-trimaran Ultim MACSF. It had been partially built from the former Géronimo from Kersauson.
The solo sailor then mastered a circumnavigation in the opposite direction (from east to west), without any stopovers, pulverizing Jean-Luc Van Den Heede’s 22-year-old record (122 days) with a sensational time of 94 days, 21 hours and 58 minutes.
His route took him against the prevailing winds and currents past the three capes: Cape Horn, Cape Leeuwin and finally the Cape of Good Hope. Not even a damaged starboard rudder after a collision with a fishing boat stopped him!
Guirec Soudée is therefore only the sixth sailor to complete such a circumnavigation, the first on a multihull and by far the fastest. A truly epic journey around the world!