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en : No Limit
Tracy Edwards launches MAIDEN II project
image 300 x 158Girls 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 (…) -
en : Jules Verne Trophy
Geronimo has the equator in their sights
Six and a half days after crossing the Trophée Jules Verne start line off Ushant at 01:25 GMT (02:25 French time) last Monday and 2,785 miles later (an average speed approaching 18 knots), Geronimo is approaching the equator. This is the first waypoint on her circuit of the globe and one she should cross during Monday morning. -
en : Jules Verne Trophy
"Geronimo and the crew are both running like clockwork"
At 1 p.m. today (French time), Geronimo was approaching the Cape Verde islands on her way to the equator. "Everything’s going very well on board. -
en : Jules Verne trophy
Bruno Peyron : "We’ll rebuild !... and we’ll be off again !"
Bruno Peyron has left Vannes, leaving repairs to Orange’s mast in the hands of the architects and engineers of the Mulitplast boat yard. Casting his thoughts back to the start and the incident which occurred only 30 minutes afterwards, Bruno Peyron commented : " It is difficult to describe what goes through your head when so much positive (…) -
en : Jules Verne Trophy
Orange breaks her mechanics
image 300 x 158Orange on the starting line. Broken Mast (down). Photos : G.Martin-Raget
Bruno Peyron and his twelve men crew left Brest at 8:35, local time, this morning. Then they put sails and cape to the west to leave the bay of Brest and join the starting line of the round the world record. -
en : Jules Verne Trophy
Bruno Peyron : "We’ll also be trying to win the dual with Olivier de Kersauson"
image 300 x 158Photo : G.Martin-Raget
When the catamaran was sailing away from Brest for mast trials, Bruno Peyron was answering to few questions in Paris during a special press show. -
en : New York To Melbourne
Trimaran Great American II breaks Gold Rush clipper ship record
A finish gun fired from the Royal Yacht Club of Victoria at 1:29 PM today signaled a new sailing record from New York City to Melbourne. The 53-foot trimaran Great American II completed the 15,000-mile voyage to Australia in 68 days 10 hours 7 minutes 52 seconds, breaking a record that had stood for 146 years. -
en : TRANSAT JACQUES VABRE
Groupama takes victory in Salvador de Bahia
At 1853hrs local time in Brazil, 2053 hrs GMT, Groupama, the Open 60ft trimaran skippered by 28 year old Frenchman Franck Cammas, with Swiss co-skipper Steve Ravussin, crossed the line and thus took the final victory in the double-handed Transat Jacques Vabre 2001, from Le Havre, France, to Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Groupama covered 5,188.6 (…)