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...winner was Philippe Jeantot, the deep-sea diver from Concarneau, France, who idled across the finish line the day after his 31st birthday. At the start of the race, Jeantot was unknown to the racing world, though he had made four single-handed Atlantic crossings. Yet on the first of the race's four legs, the 7,100-miles from Newport to Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through...
...Jeantot, in his black-and-yellow aluminum-hulled cutter prosaically named Crédit Agricole for the bank that sponsored it, beat by an astonishing 28½ days the previous record for a single-hulled boat, set last year by Australian Neville Gosson. This time Gosson was expected to finish fourth among the larger boats. Jeantot's eleven-ton 56-footer even shaved ten days off the previous single-handed circumnavigation record, set in a trimaran by fellow Frenchman Alain Colas in 1973-74. Jeantot's large monohull also set new race records for the fastest noon...
...second place, a cumulative 11 days 14 hr. behind Jeantot, came South African S.J. ("Bertie") Reed, 39, sailing the 15-year-old, 49-ft. sloop Altech Voortrekker, which he pronounced the world's most uncomfortable boat of its size. Next, 65 hr. 35 min. later, came Czechoslovakia's Richard Konkolski, 39, who had refused to quit despite repeated damage to his 44-ft. sloop Nike...
...last boat is not expected home for a good two weeks. At a ceremony in Newport scheduled for May 28, BOC Group, the British-based industrial conglomerate that sponsored the race, will divide $50,000 between the winner of the small-boat class and Jeantot, the large-boat victor...
...eligible, each contestant and boat had to complete a 1,000-mile solo voyage, a requirement that posed no problem to Frenchman Philippe Jeantot, who has already logged 25,000 solo miles. The weeks before the start were spent stocking provisions and spare parts, checking out radios (each sailor will be required to report his position weekly), and adjusting the self-steering gear that will allow captains a few hours' sleep...