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Orange halfway round
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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Four days ago Orange had a delamination problem
"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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Orange to Cape Leeuwin with more than one day lead... from Sport Elec
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 Jules Verne (...) -
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Orange in the fifties for the first time
"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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Last chicane before cape Leeuwin
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 (...) -
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Like on a conveyor belt… at 31.2 knots speed!
31.2 knots of instantaneous speed Speed #speedsailing at 1200 for 429 miles on the clock in the last 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours best distance covered records : the maxi-catamaran Orange is notching up the miles sliding due east along latitude 46 degrees South. The giant from Marseilles is currently under staysail and double reefed main (...) -
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Orange has paid for the right to take on the fearsome southern latitudes
One day hove to. Two days beating into a nasty head sea. Orange has paid dearly for the right to take on the fearsome southern latitudes. At twenty knots on a sea that is once again manageable Peyron and his boys are all smiles at last. The very deep low that is moving away ahead of their bows is opening the door to the south. The great (...) -
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Small respite before further difficulties ahead for Orange
371 miles to the north of the Kerguelen Islands, the maxi-catamaran Orange is taking advantage of another day of transition, a short respite after the tough sailing conditions of the last 48 hours, and while waiting for a new low pressure system upon whose evolution or immobility will depend Peyron’s choice of route. The zone of low (...) -
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Two days beating into 40 knots of wind!
The face offered by the Indian Ocean to the men of Orange is astonishing both sailors and meteorologists. Exceptional weather situations have been accumulating for the maxi-catamaran, and they are getting more difficult and more complex. A boat-breaking seaway and mind-breaking weather forecasts, indeed not a year "for breaking records!". (...) -
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Orange lies to, to let the storm pass over
Waves are not far off 10 metres high, breaking waves cover the cockpit submerging the crew on watch, riveted to the helm and the sheets. The steaming sea is striped with long trails of white foam and there are gusts of up to 65 knots (between 110 and 120 km/h).
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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".