Gitana 13
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Gitana 13 is a maxi-catamaran
that participated to many races. It, is at the moment, skippered by Lionel Lemonchois and is the property of the Gitana Team.
It has had several names :
It is the sister-ship of Club Med, winner of The Race
in 2000 with Grant Dalton
.
Catamaran
A catamaran is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure, the most basic being a frame, formed of akas...
that participated to many races. It, is at the moment, skippered by Lionel Lemonchois and is the property of the Gitana Team.
It has had several names :
- 2000 : Innovation Explorer, skippered by Loïck PeyronLoïck PeyronLoïck Peyron, born 1 December 1959 in Nantes, is a French yachtsman, younger brother of the yachtsman Bruno Peyron.He is particularly famous for winning many races in the 1990s on board his trimaran Fujicolor...
, for The RaceThe Race (yachting race)The Race was a round-the-world sailing race starting in Barcelona, Spain on December 31, 2000. It was the first ever non-stop, no-rules, no-limits, round-the-world sailing event, with a $2 million US prize...
, where it finishes in second position. - 2002 : Orange, skippered by Bruno PeyronBruno PeyronBruno Tristan Peyron is a French yachtsman who, along with his crew on the catamaran Orange II, broke the outright round-the-world sailing record in March 2005. He was the first winner of the Jules Verne Trophy in 1994, for completing a round-the-world trip in under 80 days...
, with which it wins the Jules Verne TrophyJules Verne TrophyThe Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew provided the vessel has registered with the organization and paid an entry fee. A vessel holding the Jules Verne trophy will not necessarily hold the...
in 2002. - 2003 : Kingfisher 2, skippered by Ellen MacArthurEllen MacArthurDame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE is an English sailor, up until 2009, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in West Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005 she broke the world record for the fastest solo...
. It broke its mast in 2003, south-East Kerguelen Islands, on the route of the Jules Verne TrophyJules Verne TrophyThe Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew provided the vessel has registered with the organization and paid an entry fee. A vessel holding the Jules Verne trophy will not necessarily hold the...
. - 2006 : Gitana 13 after being bought by the Gitana Team.
It is the sister-ship of Club Med, winner of The Race
The Race (yachting race)
The Race was a round-the-world sailing race starting in Barcelona, Spain on December 31, 2000. It was the first ever non-stop, no-rules, no-limits, round-the-world sailing event, with a $2 million US prize...
in 2000 with Grant Dalton
Grant Dalton
-Background:Grant Dalton is a professional sailor who started sailing at the age 8 in the P Class and soon started racing as a member of Maraeti Beach Boating Club...
.
Records
- Under the name Orange : Winner of the Jules Verne TrophyJules Verne TrophyThe Jules Verne Trophy is a prize for the fastest circumnavigation of the world by any type of yacht with no restrictions on the size of the crew provided the vessel has registered with the organization and paid an entry fee. A vessel holding the Jules Verne trophy will not necessarily hold the...
(Around the world sailing recordAround the world sailing recordThe first around the world sailing record was, logically, set by the first person who circumnavigated the world: Juan Sebastián Elcano and the remaining members of Ferdinand Magellan's crew who completed their journey in 1522. The first solo record was set by Joshua Slocum in the Spray .Most races...
) in 2002, in 64 days 8 hours 37 minutes 24 seconds. - Under the name Gitana 13 : Record of the transpacific between San Francisco and YokohamaYokohamais the capital city of Kanagawa Prefecture and the second largest city in Japan by population after Tokyo and most populous municipality of Japan. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of Tokyo, in the Kantō region of the main island of Honshu...
in 11 days, 12 minutes and 55 seconds in 2008.
Dimensions
- Launched : 2000
- Type : CatamaranCatamaranA catamaran is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure, the most basic being a frame, formed of akas...
- Architect : Gilles Ollier
- Shipyard : Multiplast
- Length : 33.50 m (110 ft)
- Width : 17.50 m (57.41 ft)
- Displacement : 20 tons
- Mast height : 39 m (128 ft)
- Sails: 610 m² / 800 m²
- Crew : 12