A four-time circumnavigator via Cape Horn, Loïck Peyron’s most notable
achievements, include winning the ORMA Championship four times in 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2002, the OSTAR solo transatlantic race three times, the Transat Jacques Vabre twice and the Jules Verne Trophy in 2012.
Peyron joined the French Gitana Team in 2006 to race Gitana Eighty, a 60ft monohull with which he won the Transat. He raced the same yacht in the 2008/9 Vendée Globe and had been leading the race for 16 days, when Gitana’s mast broke.
In 2012 he and his crew won the Jules Verne Trophy aboard the multi trimaran Banque Populaire with a time of 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds, breaking the previous round the world sailing record by 2 days.
In November 2014, he won the Route du Rhum single-handed Transat setting a new record, from St Malo to Guadeloupe in 7 days 15 hours 8 minutes and 32 seconds (22.93 kts average speed), beating the previous record by 2h 10mn 34s.
Wikipedia Link – Loïck Peyron
