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At 15.37 GMT Maserati has rounded Cape Horn against the prevailing wind

mardi 22 janvier 2013Redaction SSS [Source RP]

Giovanni Soldini, Guido Broggi, Corrado Rossignoli, Michele Sighel, Sébastien Audigane, Boris Herrmann, Jianghe Teng, Ryan Breymaier e Carlos Hernandez left New York on December 31, 2012 attempting to break the historic record Record #sailingrecord of the Golden Route. They rounded the mythical Cape Horn after 21 days, 23 hours and 14 minutes.

They did it in record Record #sailingrecord time, considering that the 110 feet maxi catamaran Gitana 13, which holds the overall time record Record #sailingrecord on the New York - San Francisco New York - San Francisco #NewYorkSanFrancisco route, rounded Cape Horn in 2008 after 22 days, 7 hours and 25 minutes, i.e. 8 hours longer than the VOR 70 Maserati. This because Gitana was forced to stand by for five days just before Cape Horn due to strong winds.

"We are really happy" says Giovanni speaking on the phone immediately after the passage. "We did a great time so far. We have been stuck in a windless area up to 10 miles from the Cape. Then – a couple of hours ago – we were just in time to haul the J4, hoist the Code 0 and reef when gusts of 20-25 knots suddenly arrived. We are now sailing with gusts of 35 knots, as expected. The wind is going to increase more over the next few hours. Our strategy will be to exploit the slightest change in the wind direction in order to head quickly towards the west and then north, parallel to the Chile coast. At the same time we must not get too close because the Andes are so high they form a wall that compresses the isobars causing the wind to increase by up to 15 knots”.

According to the World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) rules - the international body that certifies the best times of sailing boats on the historic route - the monohull Maserati has to break the time achieved by Yves Parlier in 1998, aboard Aquitaine Innovations : 57 days, 3 hours, 2 minutes. The record in the category of multihulls achieved in 2008 by Lionel Lemonchois aboard Gitana 13 is 43 days, 3 minutes, 38 seconds.


Voir en ligne : Press info http://maserati.soldini.it



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