Jules Verne Trophy
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Jules Verne Trophy
"In this Jules Verne, we’ll have tried it all!" said Bruno Peyron laughing about the latest pitfalls of the Atlantic. Celebrated yesterday by the Figaro fleet in the Transat The Transat #thetransat #ostar AG2R Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. -Saint Barth, celebrated today by the 60 footers in (...)
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Volvo Ocean Race / Leg 7
Disaster struck Lisa McDonald’s Amer Sports Too when they were dismasted at 1645 GMT yesterday afternoon - all crew are safe and no one was injured. At the time Amer Sport Too was lying at 39 14.92N, 058 21.5W, roughly 400 miles south east of Halifax, Nova Scotia. After considering all available options after the dismasting, skipper Lisa (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
520 miles at an average of 21.66 knots over the last 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records at 1000 this morning: needless to say that the maxi-catamaran Orange is making the most of this trade wind that is pushing them along at a crisp pace towards the Azores high. The Marseilles Giant was plotted today 700 mils to the SW (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
The next three days will be under strict surveillance... Indeed, the maxi-cat Orange is continuing to progress in a NE trade wind, that’s to say fairly close to the wind and it should take them as far as the edge of the Azores high which is less than 1,000 nm to the north before turning towards (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
"The scenery was a bit lunar last night" said Bruno Peyron during the chat session today. "There was a sort of orange veil before us". Gilles Chiorri chipped in: "We’re in a completely Orange world". After an explanation, we realised that the maxi-catamaran Orange was covered with orange sand, coming all the way from the African deserts. (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
268 miles covered in 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records , an average speed Speed #speedsailing of 8.85 knots based on the boat’s position an 11h00 today... " We had not been expecting much wind anyway " explained Bruno Peyron during the radio chat session. "However, we’d prefer to be on a heading of 330° (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
The Marseilles Giant is in a situation where she is forced to curve her route towards the American continent. While the main reason is eventually to skirt round the Azores high to the west, right now she is being forced to cope with a 12-knot northerly headwind, which means she has got to... beat. Just the point of sailing she hates and now (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Crossing the Equator is not the only piece of news for Orange today. Bruno Peyron chose the boat’s entry into the northern hemisphere as the moment to reveal the shadow which has a cast over the maxi-cat’s fine course in the South Atlantic. The titanium ball supporting the mast has cracked. It is quite impossible to assess the (...)
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East-West Atlantic record
In a frustrating finale to Maiden II’s westbound transatlantic crossing, the Bahamian winds denied the crew the opportunity to break the two-year-old record Record #sailingrecord . With 200 miles remaining to break the record Record #sailingrecord last night, the local winds died, leaving a few knots of upwind breeze for the (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Indeed, there wasn’t much of an alternative to the long gybe to the east started a week ago by the maxi-cat Orange after passing the Falklands. But skirting the enormous low that swept in from Argentina round to the east, and the crossing of the ridge of high pressure the day before yesterday was a risky exercise whose success lay as (...)
L’idée d’un tour du monde à la voile en moins de 80 jours date de 1985. Yves Le Cornec et d’autres marins rêvaient de ce que réalisera le premier l’équipage de Bruno Peyron en 1993.
History
Date |
Skipper |
Boat |
Time |
Average Speed
Speed
#speedsailing
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6 january 2012 |
Loïck Peyron (Fra) |
Banque Populaire V (trimaran 40m) |
45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds |
26,51 knots |
20 march 2010 |
Franck Cammas (Fra) |
Groupama 3 (trimaran 30,50m) |
48 days 7 hours 44 minutes 52 seconds |
18,76 knots |
16 march 2005 |
Bruno Peyron (Fra) |
Orange 2 (catamaran 36m) |
50 days 16 hours et 20 minutes 04 seconds |
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29 april 2004 |
Olivier de Kersauson |
Geronimo (trimaran 32m) |
63 days, 13 hours, 59 minutes 46 seconds |
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5 april 2004 |
Steve Fossett (USA) |
Cheyenne, ex-PlayStation (catamaran 38m) |
58 days 9 hours 32 minutes 45 seconds |
non official |
5 may 2002 |
Bruno Peyron (Fra) |
Orange (catamaran 33 m) |
64 days 8 hours 37 minutes 24 seconds |
13,98 knots |
19 may 1997 |
Olivier de Kersauson (Fra) |
Sport-Elec (trimaran de 27,4 m) |
71 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes 8 seconds |
12.66 knots |
1er april 1994 |
Peter Blake (NZL) |
Enza (catamaran de 27 m) |
74 days, 22 hours 17 minutes 22 seconds |
12 knots |
20 april 1993 |
Bruno Peyron (Fra) |
Commodore Explorer (catamaran 26 m) |
79 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes 56 seconds |
11.35 knots |