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Brummell speaks to elite sailors Alexia Barrier and Dee Caffari about their upcoming record-breaking challenge and what they hope it will ac

Aboard the world’s fastest maxi-trimaran, the Idec Sport, the team aims to set the first women’s record for the Jules Verne Trophy by sailing around the globe in fewer than 40 days. Titled “The Famous Project”, this challenge is taking place in partnership with luxury watch house, Richard Mille.

This ambitious endeavour has inspired generations of eager adventurers, including Bruno and Loïck Peyron and Olivier de Kersauson, to push the boundaries of circumnavigation and surpass the fictional journey of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s famous novel, Around the World in Eighty Days.

Led by Barrier and handpicked for their diverse and complementary sailing expertise, the team includes record-breaking sailors Dee Caffari and Marie Riou. We caught up with some of the crew prior to the expedition to find out how they are getting on.

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She’s sailed around the world six times — including the wrong way. Twice. She’s a legend in her prime. And she’s not done yet.

The frigid air is endless down here in the land of ocean and icebergs. The heavy gray clouds make it difficult to distinguish between night and day, while the whipping winds stir mountainous waves that crash overboard like an angry leviathan emerging from the depths below.

It’s here, in perhaps the most isolated spot on earth, where we find Dee Caffari, one of the most accomplished sailors of her era. She is alone, captaining her boat through the hostile waters of the Southern Ocean in a spot known as Point Nemo. The name is most certainly fitting. In Latin, Nemo translates into “no one.” And down here, the closest human you’ll find flies some 250 miles overhead in the International Space Station. The closest person on earth, well, they’re some 1,700 miles away in any direction — maybe to the north in the rugged cliffs of the Pitcairn Islands, or on the rocky terrain of Maher Island off Antarctica to the south, or perhaps on the volcanic mountain of Motu Niu of the Easter Islands to the northeast.

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