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Orange to Cape Leeuwin with more than one day lead... from Sport Elec
lundi 1er avril 2002 –
"Leeuwin ! Australia ! The second great cape of the voyage..." it was at 1458 GMT yesterday that the maxi-catamaran Orange crossed the latitude of the Australian cape, the second compulsory passage point of this circumnavigation. The giant from Marseilles covered the distance between Ushant and Cape Leeuwin in 29 days 07 hours and 22 minutes, setting a new reference time in the process. They beat the previous record Record #sailingrecord set by Sir Peter Blake on Enza in 1997 (29d 16h 01mn) by 8 hours and 39 minutes. "This passage through the Indian Ocean for our 2002 Jules Verne Trophy attempt will not go down in the annals," wrote Bruno in an e-mail last night, because we must have lost two days. But no bother ! We’re still alive and kicking with a giant catamaran that is just begging to accelerate as soon as conditions let her express her full potential". For information, Olivier de Kersauson, the current holder of the Jules Verne Trophy crossed the latitude of the Australian cape after 30 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes. It is interesting to note that the maxi-catamaran Orange and the current holder of the Jules Verne Trophy crossed the mythical latitude within less than 50 miles of each other ! (the maxi-catamaran Orange being the furthest south).
"As for our score card, to be honest I didn’t want to look at the positions for three or four days to avoid seeing the "damage" but... OK, you can’t get away from it. Compared with the Jules Verne record Record #sailingrecord , we have lost a little of our lead !" wrote Bruno Peyron in his nightly e-mail. And he continued in the chat session : "we attacked a bit too hard when entering the Indian and we put plenty of horsepower and energy into it. But it didn’t pay... And then we tended to be a bit undercanvassed while were trying to work out what to do. But at the same time we were in conditions of crossed seaways that were not letting us exploit our full potential. It’s clear that we’re sailing a notch under those of The Race but we don’t have the same goal : we want to bring home the Jules Verne Trophy and not record the times of 2001/2002...".
Quote / unquote...
Bruno Peyron : "For the moment we have the second time to the Equator, the first to the Cape of Good Hope and the first from Ushant to Leeuwin ? So, these two days lost in the Indian are not so bad..."
Philippe Péché : "Yesterday on crossing the latitude of Cape Leeuwin, I passed not far from home. It’s true that I was thinking about my little family and I even had a look when I was on deck to see if I could see the lights of the car !"
Pierrick Garenne / Mer & Média / Translation by David Palmer - SeaSpeak / Orange
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