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Intrepid French Sailors Win Trophy For Circling Globe Within 80 Days; Nation Takes Respite From Its Troubles to Glory in Feat

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19930422
Author:William Drozdiak

It was more than Jules Verne and his fictional hero, Phileas Fogg, dared imagine. By the time Bruno Peyron and his four-man crew passed Lizard Point off the English coast late Tuesday, they had survived a harrowing collision with two sperm whales, recovered from a nasty tumble into the sea during gale-force winds, and staved off sheer boredom by eating freeze-dried food and listening to compact discs.

Skimming across the oceans aboard a high-tech catamaran called Commodore Explorer, Peyron's team also bested Fogg's time in an 80- day race around the world by 18 hours - while shattering the ...

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