Jules Verne Trophy
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Jules Verne Trophy
The missile Orange is tearing along on the edge of the Antarctic convergence zone. On board, one watch follows another just like on the first day, but now with the pleasure of seeing the dials go mad. It’s time for the assault. The elements are just right and the maxi-catamaran doesn’t need any encouragement to jam the speedo up (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
You can just imagine the current atmosphere on board the mile devouring maxi-catamaran at the moment as she continues to hurtle down the Pacific swell at full speed Speed #speedsailing . On the log the figures are racing by, progressively increasing to reach 560 miles or more than 1,000 kilometres covered these last 24 hours 24 hours 24 (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
A Sunday south of south. A big catamaran hurtling through the greatest ocean on the planet. And the 13 men, as applied today as they were on the first of their 36 days at sea, are giving the Orange giant the best of its precious fuel; wind, air, so temperamental since leaving Ushant astern. That precious resource that they must seek, hunt and (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
"To our left, about 2000 miles away, the island of Tonga... a little to the right of that the Cook islands, then a bit further on, the lagoons of Raiatéa, Wahiné and Bora Bora... In four days we could be there leaving behind the icy waters of the South Pacific..."just for one instant, and one instant only, Bruno Peyron imagined a Jules Verne (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Orange has started another symbolic day. The International Date Line symbolises the return to the West, the moment from when the sailors will be counting down the degrees that separate them from their goal. The Pacific is the other unknown immensity of this circumnavigation, an unending desolate back straight whose ultimate point is called the (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
Dry suits and balaclavas on again, diving masks glued to faces, hands clinging onto the wheel or frozen to the sheets... The menu for this rather special day is for cold and damp on board the maxi-catamaran Orange. The Marseilles giant is surfing the liquid mountains of icy water of the Southern Ocean at more than 30 knots, gobbling up almost (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
"To be honest, I must say that apart from what you already know, we had a little problem that could have had more serious consequences..." wrote Bruno Peyron in his e-mail of the day. Indeed, four days ago the maxi-catamaran Orange had a delamination problem with a part of the aft beam fairing. In addition two inside bulkheads were cracked in (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
The longitude of Cape Leeuwin has fallen astern today in the wake of the maxi-catamaran Orange and the boat has broken the record Record #sailingrecord between Ushant and the mythical Australian cape. She has a little over 1 day’s lead (1 day, 7 hours and 22 minutes) over the current holder of the Jules Verne Trophy and is currently (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
"We’ve just crossed the Antarctic convergence zone" announced Bruno Peyron. The water is at 4°C, the temperature that icebergs like... So we keeping our eyes open!" But the voice of Orange’s skipper didn’t seem too anxious this morning. In fact he sounded quite satisfied because his Marseilles giant has found the right angles (...)
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Jules Verne Trophy
The maxi-catamaran Orange continues to slalom in the Indian Ocean in the search for the ideal weather pattern. "We must be on our third system since the Cape of Good Hope", said Hervé Jan during today’s chat session. "During The Race on Club Med, we picked up a low around the Crozet Islands that took us all the way through to New (...)
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
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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 |