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• en : Trophée Jules Verne

  Back to Geronimo’s record attempt

  It was at 02:25:16 on 18 February that Geronimo, crewed by the Cap Gemini & Ernst Young/Schneider Electric team, crossed the Round the World Record start line off Ushant. The current holder of the Trophée Jules Verne was on his way to better his own unbeaten record of 1997. Aboard this magnificent racing trimaran – the largest in the world (…)
  4 March 2002
• en : TROPHEE JULES VERNE

  Orange covers 500 miles in 24 h away from the Portuguese coast

  A "transbiscay" to set the boat up, a succession of gybes to clear Cape Finistere, then steer 180°, due south and the whole coast of Portugal is unfolding on fast forward to Orange’s windward. After one and a half day’s racing, the thirteen oilies of Peyron’s men are already drying in the Iberian sunshine.
  3 March 2002
• en : TROPHEE JULES VERNE

  Orange Saturday on the highway around the world

  

  Photo: G.Martin-Raget

  We were warned that this Saturday March 2nd would be classified "Orange" for the half-term traffic, both outward bound and inward bound? and also on the Atlantic with the toing and froing of the two "Giants": back to port for the unfortunate Geronimo and a fresh start this morning at 08 hours 36 minutes and 21 seconds (French time) for Bruno (…)
  2 March 2002
• en : Jules Verne Trophy

  Peyron starts again on Saturday morning

  Bruno Peyron, skipper of the maxi-catamaran Orange with Gilles Chiorri (boat captain) and Yann Penfornis (one of the boat’s designers) and Eric Mas (Météo Consult) at his side has just announced at a press briefing in Vannes that he will be casting off this afternoon at about 1800 setting course for Ushant to cross the starting line of the (…)
  1 March 2002
• en : Trophée Jules Verne

  Orange back on the starting line on Saturday

  The maxi-catamaran Orange’s capshrouds and shrouds, which they were still waiting on wednesday to be returned from the USA, have arrived and have cleared customs. Philippe Peche and Vladimir Dzalba Lyndis dispatched to Paris to collect them are now on the way back to Vannes with their precious load!
  1 March 2002
• en : Trophée Jules-Verne

  Geronimo off Brazil

  Early yesterday afternoon, the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Schneider Electric trimaran was already heading for the north-west point of Brazil, thanks to the light trade winds now blowing from the east-south-east.
  28 February 2002
• en : TROPHEE JULES VERNE

  Bruno Peyron is seriously envisaging a fresh start with his maxi-catamaran

  Two weeks after a breakage of the masthead prematurely interrupted Orange’s adventure in the Jules Verne Trophy, Bruno Peyron, his crew and the technicians from the Multiplast yard have pulled off the improbable gamble of reconstructing and assembling some 4 metres of mast in record time.
  27 February 2002
• en : Jules Verne Trophy

  Geronimo crosses the equator with two days in hand

  "A little over 9 days to reach the equator isn’t an achievement that will go down in the record books", said Olivier de Kersauson in his radio bulletin today.
  27 February 2002
• en : Jules Verne Trophy

  Geronimo keeps her spirits up

  With 200 miles still to go to the equator (at 13:00 GMT today), sailing conditions are hardly in Geronimo’s favour. The ten or so knots of wind available mean that the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young - Schneider Electric team trimaran is making very slow headway towards the Southern Hemisphere.
  25 February 2002
• en : No Limit

  Tracy Edwards launches MAIDEN II project

  

  Girls are no more on Club Med’ sails. They are at the helm! Photo: Ch.Guigueno

  Sailing legend Tracy Edwards is to take on the world again. The pioneer of all female sailing projects has acquired the record breaking 110 foot maxi-catamaran Club Med, renamed it Maiden II, re-formed her crew of expert women sailors, and is about to embark on a challenging three year programme which includes participation in both the Jules (…)
  25 February 2002