(FILES) This file photo taken on May 11, 2016 shows French sailor Francois Gabart aboard Macif multihull near the finish line of the transat bakerly sailing race on May 10, 2016 in New York Harbor. Gabart took the start on November 4, 2017 off the coast of Brest of an attempt to break the record of the solo non-stop circumnavigation of the World. / AFP PHOTO / DON EMMERT