A lot of people said it's impossible. You know why, why bother, there's no point doing it. to and then provide the training There is nothing more powerful in shifting perceptions than seeing something that was once dismissed as unachievable become legacy. Is it laundry day? i tried to dream when the sun rise take from bright side up My name is Johnny Melbourne and I'm the team director for The Famous Project. Alexia finished the Vonda Globe which is a non-stop unassisted around the world race in 2020. And uh we were trying to find something else to [2:08] do. Could have been another Vonda Globe or something different. And we wanted to do something a little bit different [2:16] to what she'd done previously. And the idea of The Famous Project was born primarily out of that. [2:24] [Foreign Language] [2:51] Present [3:20] navigator [3:35] Two reasons to drive. Yep. One, if the wind goes to 245 we drive. Or if the wind goes to [3:43] 14 knots we drive. 14, yeah. [3:49] Yeah, okay. [4:04] I'm Davari, I'm from England and I'm a professional sailor. I'm the co-skipper for The Famous Project alongside Alexia [4:12] Barrier and I have sailed around the world now six times and this is the exciting lap number seven. Alexia [4:20] made the phone call and said she had this crazy idea and immediately I said yes and I think because [4:28] part of me was like will it ever happen but the other part of me was just like what an [4:34] amazing opportunity and if I'm going to go around the world again then this is the way I want to [4:38] go around the world. [4:50] When the project first came together we did a lot of sailing and training on the training boat on a [4:56] triaran getting used to the speed getting comfortable and you could really feel the progress was moving forward. And now [5:03] we've been prepping sport and the anticipation to take this boat sailing and see what she can do. We've been [5:10] watching the videos of its previous uh Jules Verne attempts and you know everybody started to visualize that's going to [5:17] be us. We're on this boat. Yeah, we're super lucky to have Idec Sport, you know, is the current record [5:23] holder which I think uh people expect us to go out and break the record because we theoretically still got [5:30] the fastest boat in the world for sure. She's an incredible machine. Super strong, super sturdy. Our goal primarily is [5:37] to sail around the world and set a reference time for the first female team to sail non-stop unassisted around [5:43] the planet. Within that we will participate in the Jules Verne Trophy and try our very best to to break [5:52] that record in the in the same at the same time. [6:10] [Foreign Language] [6:40] Foremost [7:09] [Foreign Language] [7:21] Okay [7:26] Okay [7:42] [Inaudible] [8:02] Not much for this. [8:13] And you're feeling right now [8:36] so we need to work again on the budget. Yeah. But now and I think we know we have to [8:42] have a discussion with Fabric about the contract, his contracts, 'cuz we keep talking about it. I need to call [8:49] Yeah. Tell him in your contract. Yeah. Hey guys. [9:05] [Foreign Language] [9:50] competitive [10:20] With any project like this we are we are kind of driven or or um restrained or I don't know [10:25] unlocked by the amount of money that we can get in. Money buys improvement and training and I guess ultimately [10:33] safety. And we struggled this last year with unlocking the last part of the funding that we need to to [10:40] uh do this thing. It's coming online now which is amazing. And it's not too late

[00:09] now [00:14] I'm going to make quick [00:45] technology for the famous project [00:58] so tomorrow night we're going to bring the boat to Brest. We have 11 people, 12 people on the boat. [01:08] maybe she's sailing. Are you ready for the briefing, D? Oh, I'm ready, I'm ready. Let me get my notepad. [01:17] Oh my god, you're about to go sailing, that's so exciting. [01:23] so maybe it will be boring but I wanted to share that moment with you. We're in the boat again. [01:30] We're on the boat. [01:35] schooler, yeah, it's important. Yes, yes. [01:57] the Brest [02:01] legend [02:43] How was last night sailing in? Well, last night we were actually sailing and now we're not. Um, no, it [02:51] was fun, it was really good. [Foreign Language] [03:26] Welcome everyone. We are going to sail for the fourth time on [who] never sailed on the boat. [03:36] We did twice around the world with the boat. [03:43] so we're jogging off. Um, we're going away for 24 hours and uh now we're uh yeah talking off. You [03:52] can, as you can see, it's not a a 40 ft yacht, it's a little bit bigger. [04:16] Yeah, we are off, ready to go. [04:28] It's a warm up. [04:52] heat [05:08] heat [05:24] um my name is Molly and um I became involved with the Famous Project last September. Um so I was [05:35] racing another boat in Sanremo and I saw the Famous Project was there in the bay sailing and I was [05:40] like, I have to talk to Alexia. [05:49] Yeah, yeah, come on. First of all, he's amazing. He's like an encyclopedia of the boat 'cause he's worked on [05:55] the boat for so long and he's done two Jules Verne attempts on the boat so he he amazes me [06:04] because he knows so much and doesn't write anything down and I'm like, "How do you remember that from like [06:11] 10 years ago about this book?" Um so we are kind of both boat craft boat captains together. Um it [06:20] is a massive role and I would not be able to do it on my own. It's really happening and [06:25] I'm going to be there and be a part of it and it's kind of crazy in like the best [06:31] possible way. It is super nice to be finally sailing this big boat. It feels so easy to go fast [06:43] which I think is a good sign. [07:11] You did. Oh, they did it, but I was like, I have a hand. [07:44] Okay, so Molly, Italian American but speaks French, that's the secret. Tamara, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, flag bearer for [07:56] Spain, sailed around the world. [08:02] Of course, we had to take her and uh knowing that in a few months we're going out on the [08:08] water and and on this tri and and and this amazing group of of girls. Uh as you can see, [08:15] we're very mixed uh cultural so that's very entertaining sometimes. [08:50] [Foreign Language] [09:16] to tip [09:19] Okay, should we look?

yeah so it's our final summer training which is kind of sad but we got to make the most of it we're out for 6 days and looking at the weather I think we're going to go south um so it's almost like we're doing the start of the course we go south until appropriate time and then we'll turn around and come back but uh it's about jailing as a team practicing maneuvers living on the boat making those final decisions of things we want to happen in the refit because next time we sell it be wetter colder and we be on standby so it's all coming round quickly but it's all good so I say again deployed one 6 knots of wind until about 2 o'clock in the morning, then the wind will strengthen to 12 knots of wind, which will allow us to bear away a little and perhaps change sails, to switch to the G0, but I'm speaking Chinese to you—that means putting a bigger sail at the front of the boat to go faster. If we want to be realistic about the time of 40 days and 23 hours set on Board IDec Sport by Francis Joyon, since 2017, much more experienced teams on this type of boat with much more [3m:28] financial means have not managed to beat this exceptional time. So, if we look on paper, we have zero chance of [3m:36] beating the record, but I've always been very strong as an outsider. I really want us to finish this round [3m:42] the world and set a reference time for women because maybe for some of you that [3m:48] doesn't mean anything, but for women, it's huge. It means a lot to move the lines of their [3m:53] sport, to really kick the anthill of the last male bastion of ocean racing, it's [4m:02] it's something. [5m:22] We're adjusting the headsail, so the sail called the gennaker, and so the fine-tuning. [5m:31] I'm at the helm and we're trying to hit the target speed, so that means finding the right setting [0m5:40] with the right trajectory to go as fast as possible. What are the settings? It's changing the shape of [5m:46] the sail. Yes, it's changing, but it's down to a few centimeters because we're almost there. She [5m:51] just changed something that slowed us down, so they're going to put it back to the previous configuration 5m:58] and try something else to see if we can gain a few tenths of a knot more. [6m:13] Hello Clément, everything is fine. Well, DS is at the front there, in the most submerged daggerboards in the [6m:20] hole, it can't not work. It's a bit complicated. We managed to make her pee, to make her eat [6m:27] a good medication. Otherwise, well, we're planting stakes, we're moving forward. I'll tell you more as soon as I've done [6m:34] a bit of weather forecast at the beginning. [6m:48] when you set off for a Jules Verne Trophy, the rule is simple: you take the boat of your choice and the crew [6m:53] of your choice. So, once we knew we were setting off aboard IDec Sport, I looked at how many [0m6:57] crew the previous projects had set off with. So, before, the boat was called Groupama, they set off with 10, and more recently, [7m:04] they set off with 6 with Francis Joyon. So I thought, why not 8? So we [7m:09] created a selection, started sailing, and finally we ended up with a group of 7. We [7m:16] resigned ourselves and said, "Well, we'll leave with 7." And then, in August, we did a [7m:20] multi-day training session and one of the crew members, Déborlair, got injured, and we were only 6 on [7m:26] board. And there, I realized that, well, if we have a lot of misfortune, etc., [7m:32] it gets tough, it gets super physically demanding. So, talking to D, I said, "Do you have an idea?" [7m:37] And finally, in the meantime, we received this message from Stacey Jackson. So, we have the North Hemisphere legend who is called [7m:44] Dafari, and now we have the South Hemisphere legend on board who is called Stacey Jackson. She joined the team [7m:51] a little less than a month ago. I really appreciate her character. I invited her to Brest. So the Australian arrives in Brest. [7m:57] We only saw her for 3 days and, and it worked out right away. [8m:10] ready boys [8m:27] I'm really excited to have joined, um, little bit late, um, but you know, better late than never, um, really [8m:35] looking forward to it. The girls have obviously been doing a lot of work leading it now and um, you [8m:40] know, worked really hard to get this off and [8m:46] an important point is that she is a trainer for survival courses in Australia. Moreover, we are going to [8m:53] England to spend 3 days in Newcastle in a specialized pool to do our last survival course all together. It's [9m:02] something truly primordial to realize how important it is. Really, rule number 1: [9m:10] don't fall overboard because we will be in a pool with waves, cold, at [0m9:14] night in survival suits. It's going to be tough.

[00:13] so my name is Alistister Hackit i'm the managing director of ocean safety and this weekend we're basing ourselves at the Maritime College in Newcastle in South Shields uh the aim is this weekend we're running a an RAA and world sailing safety course for everybody taking part in the famous project uh the idea being that we give all of the crew as much opportunity to see and understand and use as much of the safety equipment that they've got on board to talk about various different safety techniques uh and do the whole thing in preparation for never having to use it at all [00:48] one of the teams from the Volvo that I can't remember who it was but um the guy in question had been a swimmer of the watch they had had a man overboard and he had actually got in the water with his manual life jacket on with his wet suit on with his fins on with his mask on um and he jumped in the water to go and swim to the guy they got them back it was all everything was fine he actually said it's the scariest thing he's ever done [01:14] to jump off a boat in the middle of the ocean and swim away from it obviously he was tied to the boat and he knew that psychologically he said it was a really crappy thing to do so um [01:25] for me I think I'm I'm a fan of the swimmer of the watch but you've got to understand what it actually entails and you've got to be I assume really competent swimmers and we're always at the hands of mother nature you know the the waves the sea the wind that dictates our routine all the time so we [01:45] all talk about having a life jacket but it's only good if you're actually attached to the boat because the speed this trimearan's going at if you were to go over the side the chances of us coming back and finding you are pretty slim so that's why when we go on the trampoline I really always want to slow down the boat because there's no way that you capsize with someone on the Trump because it has no way to find you after that is that [02:10] Yeah for me teaching them man overboard is probably the most harrowing thing they're going to have to do if one of the crew falls overboard because of the type of boat they're sailing because of the uh the speeds that they're going to be traveling it's probably their worst case scenario um [02:32] so we spend a lot of time today talking about what to do in that situation there's another layer of plastic yeah well you don't want to get wet cuz maybe just share one yeah I was I didn't want [02:46] Don't let it spoil it's like Look it looks like short bread 270 calories per bar yeah we had them that size at our course it was They were grim it looks yummy no it's not nice i was And [03:01] how dry is it like you're going to have to drink so much water with that i don't mind that at all drink uh yeah but how much water do you have to drink to get that down how often [03:10] this is no you're not actually eating oh my god you are disgust they are disgusting no it's done i can't believe you are eating them where's the date that's good it's cheap they're your in bag so you know [03:26] we were talking about the firing head that's it trying to get them in the picture as well [03:41] it's so beautiful and then you just stand here like a crew [03:48] warm isn't it right turn out the other way keep it [03:56] woo oh it's Christmas [04:19] get away [04:41] so the reason we come to this pool is we can basically simulate a force eight gale in the dark with it raining all the waves the wind and it kind of makes it just a bit more realistic if we do it in a nice warm swimming pool it all becomes a bit too easy so this is a bit more of a reality check [05:01] do we have any like scissors or knife [05:13] i'm very high [05:27] yellow on your head and the two elastic boots over the end of your bladder [05:51] fore foreign foreign [06:15] foreest [07:06] We will have to hang out in the wind the reality and the the difficult conversation we have to have at times is the fact that some of the decisions we're making are life and death decisions and we have to have 100% trust in each other because that's all we've got out there and I think that reality is quite hard to to take on you kind of sit there going "Oh yeah yeah yeah." But actually when you're out there there's you know you got to you got to make it make it work [07:36] hello [07:40] don't laugh at me i'm not laughing yeah you are [07:45] i'm a captain you got to do that [07:50] i am okay let's fight this fire now what are we doing just above the top lip of the tree [08:00] so it gets down low [08:04] across the top yeah fire's gone out to the left [0m8:14] well done [0m8:19] well done [0m8:23] ready extend your forearms over the top there you go well done walk away [0m8:32] foreign [0m8:42] speech foreign speech foreign speech [0m8:52] fore security

[00:09] we don't actually do anything [00:13] on the 26th damp and cold on. Oh nice. Have you done the have you done the dates for it? [00:21] if you leave on the 26th it means that you are really fast, super fast, but doable. Like if we [00:30] leave on that date, you know the reference of where Christmas is and therefore I like that. Oh, New Year's, [00:38] like it seems Christmasy. I like that we have two now. [01:04] see you soon, bye [01:18] everybody is about. So as you can see, uh it is a lot of food and it is a lot [01:26] of organization to uh get eight persons' uh food for, well, we don't know how many days, hopefully not too [01:34] many. But if you are bringing not enough food, it would not be good for the performance. But if you [01:40] bring too much food, it might be too heavy. So we are um, yeah, we're just packing individual packages for [01:48] everyone. So everyone picks their own meals uh and then um beside that everyone also picks their own snacks just [01:57] to make sure that we get to the right amount of calories a day, that we're not um uh burning [0m2:03] ourself up and getting tired and maybe sick. So, so it's a it's a trade-off between not too much but [0m2:10] also not uh uh not enough, yeah. So actually you see the squares. So we uh first we we make [0m2:19] weeks. So we decided to go for eight weeks uh just to to start off 'cuz it's always easy [0m2:25] to get food off then add food. And now we actually all the squares you see is it's it's a [0m2:31] person. So uh this is uh Alexia, Dee, Molly, Bex, Bessie, Deb, Tamara, and Stacy. So we all have their [0m2:43] own square with our own food. And now, and the next step is to make it as uh as small [0m2:49] as possible and uh make it fit in a waterproof bag. So we're going to bring it on the boat. [0m2:58] That's what I'm doing right now. I know where to go when uh I'm out of snacks. [0m3:08] Why is everyone moving around? What's going on? What? We're leaving! Don't you know? Um, am I allowed to say [0m3:16] we might leave on Saturday? It's not coming going to come out before. Yeah. Uh, it's Wednesday and we might [0m3:23] leave on Saturday. There's a 80% chance. So we're trying to get ready. Um, everyone has kind of an area [0m3:33] that they look after on the boat and we're all uh making lots of piles and going through everything for [0m3:40] that department and um finalizing spare lists basically. [0m3:54] I'm not sure [0m3:59] hello. The weather window looks good for a departure Saturday the 29th. [0m4:14] We should have a call with him because I have some questions. Okay. It's about 4 m [of waves] when you start. [0m4:22] and then the system is not crossed with the previous uh wind. No, it will be from the northwest. Okay. [0m4:34] Go. So, [0m4:40] let's go around the world. Let's do that. [0m4:45] so we had the weather briefing this morning and we are leaving on Saturday morning. [0m4:57] the plan is that there is a front coming and we leave after the front. So we're going to leave [0m5:02] with some northwest and 4 m of waves going upwind to the start line and then go away J and [0m5:12] take the start. So we should be the front in between 10 and 12 in the morning. So it doesn't [0m5:17] mean early start. You are not leaving at 8 or silly in the morning. So the front will pass here [0m5:25] between 10 and 12. So we wait for that and then we go. We go straight to the start and [0m5:32] straight away go. [0m5:53] Heat, heat [0m6:31] testing [0m6:44] Christmas to keep safe on this part if it's gusty. Yeah, yeah, you just bear away, no problem. And maybe [0m6:53] with the sea state it would be much more comfortable to stay further south. So really no problem. Okay. South. [0m7:00] just here. Uh you have to be careful when the wind will be north not to be too close to [0m7:07] the coast because there is a wind off. [0m7:15] Okay. I go to the bathroom and I maybe I'll come back, I don't know yet. [0m7:34] Oh, jeez. [0m7:47] [Inaudible] [0m8:02] and then we're on our way. [0m8:06] And enjoy, enjoy. [0m8:31] fire [0m8:43] Woo. Positive attitude attracts positivity. Enjoy. [0m9:09] best [0m9:21] What the hell. Yeah. See, you won't have a record for me. You've done all the hard work. We're going [0m9:28] to make you. You're the hardest one to say goodbye to. [0m9:39] you got to move, you got to move, you got to move, child, you got to move, you got. You [0m9:49] may be high, you may be low, you may be rich, child, you may be poor, you got to move. [0m10:01] you got to move, you got to move, child, you got to move, you may be high, you may be [0m10:11] low, you may be rich, you may be old, but when the Lord