The Hydroptère is an experimental sailing hydrofoil designed by the French sailor Alain Thébault. Its multihull hydrofoil design allows the sail-powered vessel to reach high speeds on water. The design is based on experience from a range of hydrofoil sailcraft that Thébault built in cooperation with the late Eric Tabarly since the 1990s. On 2008-10-05 […]
Imponerande av Franck Cammas och hans team på Groupama 3!!! Foto: Yvan Zedda. 8 days 07 hours 44 minutes 52 seconds! The Jules Verne Trophy now belongs to ten men who have sailed around the globe at an average of 18.76 knots along the optimum course, beating the reference time set by Orange 2 in […]
Another chance to win a pair of Dirty Dog sunglasses! Leave a comment before friday 1200CET, and guess the round the world time for Franck Cammas and his team on Groupama 3. The record to beat is 50 days 16 hours 20 minutes. Closest guess win a pair of Jaba (seen on BMW/Oracle in the […]
Groupama 3 crossed the equator after having spent almost 42 days at sea. The giant multihull was 26 hours behind the record holder at this final marker. It was a matter of mission accomplished for Patrick Morvan and his team in Marseille last weekend. The Americas Cup, which was won last month by the American […]
Groupama 3 has been losing a lot of ground against the Jules Vernes Trophy record since rounding Cap Horn. 70 skippers from seven countries competed in the OK Worlds held last month in Wellington New Zealand. The following report from our Yachting correspondent Julie Ash from TV One Sport A premier new sailing event has […]
2010 Melges 24 World Championship Notice Of Race & Online Entry Now Live Tallinn, Estonia – 17 February 2010 – The International Melges 24 Class is pleased to announce that the Notice of Race and Online Entry for the 2010 Melges 24 World Championship, to be hosted by the Kalev Yacht Club, Tallinn, Estonia in […]
Groupama ligger just nu lite före tidtabellen (baserad på Orange II som innehar rekordet runt jorden). Tror vi att Franck Cammas och hans gäng klarar av ta rekordet? First record for Groupama 3 during the Jules Verne Trophy Taking just 8 days 17 hours and 39 minutes to traverse the Indian Ocean, the maxi trimaran […]
Jag var ju i Hamburg i helgen för att delta i “International Yacht Forum 2010 – The future in Offshore Yacht Racing” men också för att träffa människorna bakom IRC Baltic Open. Förutom Tyskland så fanns Danmark, Sverige, Finland, Estland och Storbritanien representerade. Många menade att man inte hade kappseglat ordentligt mellan länderna sedan IOR, […]