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C Foil on starboard, L foil on port for Gitana Team’s trimaran
The forms below the waterline, the size of the floats… at first glance, the Multi70 Edmond de Rothschild is the same boat as that which set sail from Saint Malo last November in the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum ! Indeed, true to its initial plan, the team opted to adapt the original platform, even though the latter has (...) -
#Foilers
Gitana Team : Sébastien Josse want to make fly the Multi 70’ as a GC32
Back in January, the racing stable founded by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild welcomed a newcomer to the Gitana fleet: the GC32 GC32 #GC32 Edmond de Rothschild. This 32-foot catamaran, equipped with L-foils and lifting surfaces on the float rudders, epitomises the revolution taking place in the watersports world, that of flying (...) -
#RORC
2015 RORC Caribbean 600 : Stories from the Race [video]
The RORC Caribbean 600 started from Antigua on Monday 23rd February 2015. The 600nm course circumnavigates 11 Caribbean Islands starting from Fort Charlotte, English Harbour, Antigua and heads north as far as St Martin and south to Guadeloupe taking in Barbuda, Nevis, St Kitts, Saba and St Barth’s, finishing back in (...) -
#MOD70 #MonoMaxi
RORC Caribbean 600 : Phaedo^3 has broken the multihull race record
Lloyd Thornburg’s MOD 70, Phaedo3 crossed the finish line of the 7th edition of the RORC Caribbean 600 at 20:35:30 AST on 24th February 2015 in an elapsed time of 1 day, 9 hours, 35 minutes and 30 seconds -
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 (...) -
#RdR2014
Route du Rhum : Sébastien Josse takes 3rd in Guadeloupe
On crossing the finish line of the Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum – Destination Guadeloupe in third position, on Tuesday 11 November at 03:47:09 GMT, Sébastien Josse has entered the major league in terms of epic multihull sailors. At the helm of the Multi70 Edmond de Rothschild, a 21-metre trimaran initially designed to be (...) -
Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race
Musandam-Oman Sail broke the Round Britain and Ireland course record
Sidney Gavignet and the crew of Musandam-Oman Sail, a MOD70 trimaran, crossed the finish line of the 2014 Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland Race off the Royal Yacht Squadron, Cowes, at 12.42.36 BST on Thursday 14th August 2014. -
Gitana Team
Route du Rhum 2014 and Vendée Globe 2016 for Sébastien Josse
The 2014 season promises to be equally thrilling with the major Route du Rhum Route du Rhum #RouteDuRhum meeting, whose fleet will set sail from Saint Malo on 2 November. Above all though it marks the start of a five-year campaign packed with surprises, which kicks off with the arrival of a new craft within the Gitana Team and Sébastien (...) -
San Francisco
Video : Johnny Heineken won the Bridge to Brigde 2013
Every year from 1998, the Ronstan Bridge to Bridge race invite all sailing engines for a run between two gates from the Golden Gate. This year, the competition was included in a 18 feet event and french photographer and cameraman Christophe Favreau was there. -
MOD 70
The Multi One Championship 2012 is won by Spindrift racing
In the famous Yacht Club Italiano in Genoa, Wednesday October 3rd, the glittering prizegiving for the first MOD70 European Tour lowered the curtain on the first exciting season of competition in the new MOD70 class. Winners of the KRYS OCEAN RACE and second overall in the MOD70 European Tour, Yann Guichard and the crew of Spindrift racing win (...)
Trimaran de 60 à 70 pieds de course au large (ex-MOD70 et évolutions)
