Jules Verne Trophy
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Jules Verne Trophy
Mission accomplished for the maxi-cat Orange which on Saturday at around 2000 eased her mainsheet and hoisted the big masthead gennaker. They’ve made their rendezvous with the south-east trades and the Marseilles Giant is now on a direct heading for the northern hemisphere at more than 20 knots average. Bruno Peyron and his men are (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Another ridge crossed. One more. Certainly not the last on the way to Ushant. Orange is beating slowly through a sea still choppy from the fury of the low. Peyron is all smiles. He managed to miss the storm by a few miles. Now they must find a way out of the calms of the high. And it’s going to be to the tune of multiple sail changes, a (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
As forecast for three days now, the current situation is not the simplest for the maxi-catamaran Orange which must cope with the most complex of meteorological situations. While for the moment Bruno Peyron and his men are close reaching at almost 20 knots, they will be forced to ease up tomorrow when they enter a zone of high pressure that (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Deliberately, and because there is no other choice, Orange has surrendered herself to the anticyclone. The wild run started under Australia has butted up, off Tristan da Cunha, against the soft belly of high pressure circulating off Africa. Speeds are tumbling. The sails are barely being filled. Helmsmen and trimmers are hunting the tiniest (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
The high is still filling. It is pushing away the low. Collusive, these two systems seem to be joining forces to bar Orange’s route back up the heart of the South Atlantic. The emergency exit envisaged yesterday to the east of the centre of high pressure has evaporated in Peyron’s face, far off the African coast. Behind, the low is (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
As expected since Sunday evening, the maxi-catamaran Orange is heading NE, progressively distancing herself from the South American coast. The Marseilles Giant has decided to favour and invest in a route not often attempted in previous circumnavigations in order to avoid tackling head on a low with winds estimated at 60 knots. Bruno Peyron (...)
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TROPHEE JULES VERNE
The climb back up the Atlantic is bringing with it its fair share of tactical options. Although the Orange maxi-catamaran Orange is currently hugging the coast of the Falklands, she is never the less continuing to make the most of a good south-westerly 20-knot flow, pushing her north-east, which is where she wants to go. However, what lies (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Orange has rounded the formidable Horn - four days ahead of Olivier de Kersauson’s 1997 time. Today (Saturday 13th April) at 12h28 French time, Bruno Peyron and his crew on board Orange crossed the line of longitude marking the last of the capes in the Trophée Jules Verne. At the end of a record Record #sailingrecord -breaking Pacific (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
You have to earn Cape Horn... Indeed, they were forced to slow down on board the maxi-catamaran Orange late yesterday because of this troublesome tropical low that was generating northerly winds, "causing the boat to jump from wave to wave and risking breaking something", according to Bruno Peyron. Mainsail furled, gennaker rolled up and (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
High speeds, straight tracks, course set directly for the southernmost tip of the Péché, the man on the helm, could distinguish 3 miles ahead the enormous ice cube in the mist. Under staysail and single reefed main, the maxi-catamaran was driving American continent, and a cry from Orange’s deck: "Iceberg dead ahead!" Philippe right down (...)
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 |