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TROPHEE JULES VERNE
Orange is indeed pretty close in to the eats coast of the Falkland Islands
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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Rounding cape Horn andPacific record for Orange
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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Orange slows down one day to cape Horn
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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Maiden II On Standby For Transatlantic Crossing
The Maiden II team is preparing for their first major challenge. If the current weather pattern holds out, then at midday tomorrow, UK time, the 110ft maxi-catamaran will leave Cadiz for San Salvador - following the legendary route of discovery. Although the transatlantic voyage is currently classified as for training purposes, if (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Iceberg dead ahead Orange
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 (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
630, 640 miles on the log over the past 24 hours!
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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24.69 knots average for an hour at the 1200 position report...
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 (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Orange is once again heading back down towards the deep south
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 (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Orange is slaloming between two lows
"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 (...) -
Jules Verne Trophy
Passage of the International Date Line, passage of the Pacific, passage of the front...
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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Maxi multicoques de la classe Ultimes
Le terme "G-Class" a été inventé par Bruno Peyron pour définir cette catégorie hors norme de multicoques et monocoques géants et "no limit" avant qu’ils ne soient définis comme "ultim".