The Famous Project CIC: a Crew of Seven Female Sailors to Circumnavigate the Globe

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The navigator will challenge the Jules Verne Trophy with six teammates on Francis Joyon's old boat.

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Alexia Barrier has succeeded in setting up her ambitious project and fulfilling the dream she had envisioned in 2022, after her Vendée Globe. This Tuesday, September 16, at the Musée de la Marine in Paris, she presented the six sailors selected to accompany her this fall in an attempt to break the record for a round-the-world sailing race, with a crew, without assistance and without stopovers: the famous Jules Verne Trophy. Three hundred women f…