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#JulesVerneTrophy
Spindrift 2’s Jules Verne Trophy : Line crossed at 15:01 UTC after 47 days 10 hours 59 minutes and 02 seconds at sea
The trimaran skippered by Yann Guichard has finished its first Jules Verne Trophy Jules Verne Trophy #TropheeJulesVerne , registering the second fastest time in history, and with Dona Bertarelli becoming the fastest woman to have sailed around the world. -
#RorcFR #Spindrift
Rolex Fastnet Race 2015 : Spindrift 2 finishes first in a time of 2d, 10h, 57m, 41s
On August 18th at 23:57:41 (CET), the maxi-trimaran Spindrift 2 was the first boat across the finish line in Plymouth in the 46th Rolex Fastnet Race after a thrilling tactical race in an unusually calm Celtic Sea. For 58 hours, Dona Bertarelli’s and Yann Guichard’s crew raced through erratic winds within sight of their closest (...) -
#GC32
Alinghi joins the Bullitt GC32 Racing Tour
After winning both the Vulcain Trophy (Lake Geneva) on its Decision 35 and the 2014 Extreme Sailing Series Extreme Sailing Series #extremesailing (global), Alinghi announces that it will compete in the 2015 Bullitt GC32 GC32 #GC32 Racing Tour. The team will also again race on Lake Geneva on the D35 (...) -
Plastic pollution
The “Race for Water Odyssey” will begin in Bordeaux (France) on March 15
Initiated by the Race for Water Foundation based in Lausanne, Switzerland, the “Race for Water Odyssey” (R4WO) will begin in Bordeaux (France) on March 15, 2015. The objective of this unique expedition is to conduct the first global assessment of plastic Plastic #DéchetsPlastiques pollution in oceans by visiting island beaches (...) -
#Optimist
6th Monaco Optimist Team Race : Four Aces for Gstaad Yacht Club
For the fourth consecutive year, four Swiss youngsters from the Gstaad Yacht Club won the Monaco Optimist Team Race, an international event organised by the Yacht Club de Monaco, with the support of FxPro and FON that drew 13 nations. -
#EXSS
Extreme Sailing Series : Alinghi crowned 2014 & Sydney champions
It is mission accomplished for Ernesto Bertarelli’s Swiss team Alinghi, as Morgan Larson and the team grabbed victory with both hands at Act 8 Sydney, and with it the 2014 Extreme Sailing SeriesTM title. -
Extreme Sailing Series
Morgan Larson and the Swiss team Alinghi snatched victory in France
Morgan Larson and the Swiss team Alinghi snatched victory from the hands of their fellow countrymen Realteam in the final race at the Extreme Sailing Series Extreme Sailing Series #extremesailing ™ in Nice, to take victory on French waters in front of thousands of spectators – and with that they now have one hand firmly placed on (...) -
Mini 650
Simon Koster : « I chose Olivier Mousselon from Mer Forte»
Swiss skipper Simon Koster who finished the Mini-Transat Mini-Transat #MiniTransat 2013 at the 3rd place in the serie division will be back in the solo transatlantic in 2015. He has chosen a new yacht designer and is beginning the building of a new proto 650. He explains his (...) -
Kitesurf
John Heineken won the KiteFoil GoldCup Switzerland
The best Kitefoilers of the world from 15 nations traveled up to the Engadin for the second stop of the Kitefoil Goldcup world tour. The event took place on beautiful lake Silvaplana, St Moritz, a mecca for skiers in winter and at 1,800 meters above sea level, a stunning crystal clear blue lake that attracts world class sailing and windsurfing (...) -
Spindrift Racing
Dona Bertarelli : "After the changes we made, Spindrift 2 is behaving as expected"
Spindrift 2 has had its first sail after the winter optimisation, spending a night at sea criss-crossing the Bay of Biscay. The control was there straight away and the boat ran like clockwork. The 2014 season has begun and it has started well for Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard’s (...)
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