As a result three major events will punctuate the program drawn up for Gitana Team and the men on the 32-metre flying giant.

Gitana sailing trimaran. The Corsair 37 is a no-compromises boat with an even greater speed potential when built in Carbon. Sailing in the Indian Ocean since yesterday afternoon and their passage of the longitude of Cape Agulhas the men of Gitana Team were positioned at 4828 south at 1100 UTC with a lead of over 860 miles over the record when they informed their shore team of damage to the giants float rudder. Julie de Rotschield was an avid yachtswoman and sailor and even held several speed world records in the 1890s.

New ergonomics are needed to control a machine in which the apparent wind is constantly very strong and where there is generous spray. Built by Grant Wichman she has a strip plank cedar cored main hull armas are duracore. Crossing of the start line.

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. The Gitana 17 the fastest ocean ship in the world. Gitana 17 le bateau-volant.

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. Few of us knew that GITANA was the name of the Rothschilds first family yacht. 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 17 also known as Edmond de Rothschild Group is the flying trimaran reputed to be the fastest in the world. Welcome aboard a flying trimaran of the future. The Ave Gitana electric racing trimaran was built in New Zealand by Grant Wichman and launched 1991 in Auckland.

The boat is a Lock Crowther Design 93 built for legendary australian sailors Ian Johnston and Cathy Hawkins. The protective capsule of Gitana 17 is a beautiful carbon structure luminous slender and strong. 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.