Henri Lloyd, one of the fleet of a dozen, 70-foot Clipper boats taking part in the 2013-14 race, created history on Thursday by clocking 30.7 knots – the quickest speed ever recorded in the nine editions of the event.
The vessel was making its way to the west of Portugal on leg one of the race, which began in London earlier in September, en route to Brazil, over 5,000 nautical miles away.
Delighted crewmember Jo Morris, who was in charge when the pace was reached, said: "It was incredibly fast, I could feel it coming as the swell picked up the boat we had a huge amount of spray come over the deck so I couldn't see everything very clearly.
"We just shouted at everyone to hold on and I just let the boat glide down the wave and onto the next one. Definitely got the rest of the crew very excited, and I'm extremely happy to be the first to get the 70's over 30 knots. It's going to be amazing for those that break my record in the Southern Ocean."
Skipper Eric Holden added: "Huge congrats to Jo. The rest of the crew are now trying to convince him to sign up to more legs."We had sailed through the night on the heavy weight spinnaker and achieved what I thought was some very respectable speeds. In the morning we decided to drop the heavy weight as we were fast approaching the acceleration zone off Cape Finisterre. With the reduced sail plan I thought the speed records would be over and I went down below for some needed rest after a long night.
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