ADVANCED RUGGED AND UNAPOLOGETIC The ultimate offshore weapon but with all the comforts of a cruising monohull the flat sailing of a big catamaran and the unsinkability of a Corsair Trimaran.
Gitana sailing trimaran. Her skippers Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier are preparing to attempt the absolute record of sailing around the world in less than 40 days. She is 45 5 hull and with 6 4 bowsprit 51 9 158m LOA and 36 11m beam. With crewed and double-handed sailing not to mention a few singlehanded sessions for Charles Caudrelier to plan ahead for the Route du.
Built in 2001 under the name of Belgacom this 60 foot trimaran joined the Gitana stable in 2004 where she became Gitana 11. New ergonomics are needed to control a machine in which the apparent wind is constantly very strong and where there is generous spray. What is new is the plan is to set sail on another round the world record attempt which Gitana Team hopes to finish off the year with.
Gitana 17 also known as Edmond de Rothschild Group is the flying trimaran reputed to be the fastest in the world. Watch this spectacular footage of the 130ft maxi trimaran Spindrift 2 as she sails from France on her fourth attempt to break the non-stop round the world re. Successively helmed by Frdric le Peutrec and Lionel Lemonchois this multihull won great acclaim in November 2006 when the latter skipper drove her to victory in the legendary Route du Rhum 2006.
Just back from Amsterdam where with the crew of Gitana Extreme LCF Rothschild Group he racked up his second win in the Extreme 40 circuit at the weekend Yann Guichard was immediately back at the helm of Gitana 11 to continue the new maxi-trimarans test sailing programme. The Ave Gitana electric racing trimaran was built in New Zealand by Grant Wichman and launched 1991 in Auckland. On 17 July 2017 after a twenty-month build and over 35000 hours of studies Ariane and Benjamin de Rothschild launched the latest addition to their offshor.
The protective capsule of Gitana 17 is a beautiful carbon structure luminous slender and strong. The figures to note. 20 February 2021 at 1h 3m 15s UTC.
Vannes France July 17 2017 The first oceanic trimaran designed to fly offshore was launched today in southwest Brittany under the proud gaze of. Few of us knew that GITANA was the name of the Rothschilds first family yacht. Crossing of the start line.