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Inde
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Posted: Mon Oct 1st, 2007 02:14 am |
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Quite amazing
http://www.groupama.co.uk/latestnews...e15/cammas.asp
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CflglaaTm0
Regards
PS. It seems the first site is down, sorry.
Last edited on Mon Oct 1st, 2007 02:55 am by Inde
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Posted: Mon Oct 1st, 2007 03:06 am |
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Here is the text from the down site.
Franck Cammas and his racing team sailing the maxi-trimaran Groupama 3 have smashed four world records since starting out on a series world record attempts in 2007.
Route of Discovery
On 1st May, Franck and the team reached San Salvador in the Bahamas to beat the existing world record for the crossing from Cadiz by over 2 days.
Groupama 3 crossed the line after 7 days, 10 hours, 58 minutes and 53 seconds at sea to take the record from American, Steve Fossett. This transatlantic crossing followed in the footsteps of Christopher Columbus five
centuries ago and his voyage to discover the New World when he took 70 days to reach San Salvador.
Groupama 3 completed the 3,901 miles challenge with an incredible average speed of 21.79 knots.
From Miami to New York
On June 4, Team Groupama completed the 950 miles sprint along the American east coast from Miami to New York in only 1 day, 11 hours, 5 minutes and 20 seconds with an astonishing average speed of around 30 knots. This trumped the previous World record, also held by Steve Fossett by approximately 19 hours.
The Atlantic in a hundred hours!
After a nail-biting finish, the Groupama 3 team set a new World record, crossing the North Atlantic from New York to Lizard Point in record in a time of 4 days 3 hours 57 minutes 54 seconds, at an average of 28.65 knots over the 2,925 mile course.
Led by Franck Cammas, the nine crew in Groupama 3 sped to victory and crossed the finish line off Lizard Point on Monday at 23 hours 00 minutes 49 seconds (GMT), beating the record set by Bruno Peyron on Orange 2 last year by 4 hours 26 minutes.
During the race Franck Cammas claimed two new world speed records after logging 794 miles in 24 hours on Friday and then improving it on Saturday with an amazing 795.2-mile run.
Find out more!
Groupama has supported Frank Cammas and his racing team since 1997. During this time they have won ocean challenges across the globe and achieved four Ocean Racing Multihull Assocation (ORMA) World Championships.
This valuable sponsorship represents a powerful mechanism for boosting the Group’s image at home in France and internationally.
To find out more about Franck’s racing team and their full racing agenda visit: http://www.cammas-groupama.com/en
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Posted: Fri Oct 12th, 2007 06:21 am |
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Wow, that is some serious sailing, Gracias for that info!!
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