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Gitana Team
Loïck Peyron quits baron de Rothschild’s team
The 2009 season marks a turning point for the Gitana Team. Indeed the start of the year accompanies the announcement of Loïck Peyron’s departure and the officialising of an innovative race programme, which is more in harmony with the director’s current wishes. Yann Guichard joins as skipper of the Extreme 40 ans the ORMA trimaran (...) -
Team Alinghi
Swiss team capsizes off Lorient
AT 11:30 this morning, in 20 plus knots and a lumpy Atlantic swell, the 60ft trimaran Foncia capsized off Lorient Lorient L’actualité du port de Lorient et de sa région. with Alinghi sailors onboard. Of the 10 crew onboard, Piet van Niekerk and Francesco Rapetti were airlifted to hospital, both are safe and with no serious injuries. (...) -
Route du Rhum – La Banque Postale
74 solo sailors left St Malo for Guadeloupe
At 13:02 sharp, after one week of final preparations for one of the hardest and most competitive solo-racing competitions, the 74 skippers are finally out at sea, freeing themselves from the earth constraints. At the order of the race committee, the colored multihulls and monohulls sterns’ cut the 2 mile-long starting line and headed (...) -
Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale
A History of Rhum seasons
The Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum is the most famous single-handed Transatlantic race, born in 1978 from the creative mind of Michel Etevenon. Thanks to an exciting race and an amazing finish, (98 seconds separated Mike Birch’s Olympus Photo from its nearest competitor, Michel Malinovski’s Kriter V), the first edition (...) -
Nokia Oops Cup
Peyron celebrated the victory with another victory
Team Stena Sovcomflot has been nearly unbeatable in this year’s edition of Nokia Oops Cup. Thursday they won the last regatta in the series by finishing first in to St. Petersburg. Team Academy, which won last year, where 50 minutes after the Russian-Swedish boat over the (...) -
Grand Prix de Marseille
Franck Cammas wins in Marseilles and picks up his fourth title as World Multihull Champion
While Franck Cammas treated himself to victory in a further two races on Sunday, it was a very tense final between Karine Fauconnier and Fred Le Peutrec as they vied for second place in the Grand Prix de Marseille Métropole. The battle for fourth place in the Multihull World Championship was equally hard fought between Michel Desjoyeaux and (...) -
Défi Petit Navire - Record de la Baie
Fred le Peutrec faster sailor in the bay of Douarnenez
Saturday saw the completion of the third edition of the Défi Petit Navire in Douarnenez Douarnenez #Douarnenez . After three days of eyewatering battles against the clock and the competition, it is Fred Le Peutrec aboard 60’ trimaran Gitana XI (ex Belgacom) that takes outright victory with the fastest time in the event’s (...) -
Québec St Malo
Karine Fauconnier is continuing to stretch away across the Irish Sea
The top trio are clear of the Fastnet now tackling the waters of the Irish Sea. Géant passed very close to Mizzen Head on the south-western tip of Ireland in anticipation of the Fastnet, with Groupama just below. Sodebo’s much more southerly position came as a bit of a surprise at the 1300 GMT ranking, around 8 miles upwind of the (...) -
Transat Québec-Saint Malo
Fauconnier and Desjoyeaux lead race to the Fastnet by the North
Unsure last night as to whether or not their northerly option was a good one it was a satisfied Karine Fauconnier at the lunch time radio session. “Our option paid off finally. We thought for a moment that we may have been mistaken in our option but we’re very happy with the latest ranking. We’re making 25 knots virtually on (...) -
Transat Québec-Saint Malo
Soldini takes the leadership to Fauconnier
" Beginning not to have many rudders left! " Giovanni Soldini on Tim Progetto Italia has nonetheless taken the lead of the Orma multihulls on their North Atlantic sprint at 1300 GMT. Sodebo are up to second and Sergio Tacchini down to third. The leading multihulls have already swallowed up the first half of the Atlantic and are currently (...)
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