By finishing his single-handed, non-stop round-the-world race withoiut assistance on Wednesday morning in 80 days, 19 hours, 23 minutes and 43 seconds, Alex Thomson (HUGO BOSS) has become the fastest British sailor on that route.
He has actually done better than Ellen MacArthur in 2001 (2nd in 94d04h25’40’’) and Mike Golding in 2005 (3rd in 88d15h15’).
In the last Vendée Globe edition, the first British skipper was Sam Davies (4th) and her final race time was 95d04h39’.
