For my sailing mates who understand such love Ave Gitana is a Crowther design 93 40 trimaran built in 1991.
Gitana team trimaran. Its not the extraordinary. The Dutch router effectively the 7th man of the crew unwraps the atypical situation in which the six-man crew could set sail from Tuesday and though far from perfect the potential weather window that has the whole teams attention with just days to go until we move into 2021. Indeed from 1 November it will be all systems go to take on the challenge of the round the world record under sail which the skippers of the latest addition to the Gitana fleet describe simply as the outright round the world.
She is 45 5 hull and with 6 4 bowsprit 51 9 158m LOA and 36 11m beam. Ariane de Rothschild owner of Gitana Team This trimaran is a fantastic way to carry on the 140-year history of the Gitana boats and the research and development within our family. Their modified MOD70 Now Maserati was the first to implement a vision many had already back in 2014 we asked past Round the World record holder Loick Peyron on his interview about future offshore foiling.
At the end of last week just a matter of hours was all it took for the Gitana Team to go from the satisfaction of a record time for its descent of the Atlantic aboard its flying maxi-trimaran to the great disappointment of discovering damage on its rudder which definitively put an end to its Jules Verne Trophy record attempt. A trimaran measuring 32-metres in length and 23 metres in width this Ultime once again bears witness to the passion for innovation and performance that serves as a daily guide to Ariane and Benjamin de Rothschild and the rest of the Gitana Team. Built by Grant Wichman she has a strip plank cedar cored main hull armas are duracore.
17 July 2017 170000 man-hours including 35000 hours of studies - 40 people on average over the 20-month build LOA. Vannes France July 17 2017 The first oceanic trimaran designed to fly offshore was launched today in southwest Brittany under the proud gaze. It is the story of a continuous quest and a series of experiments notably that carried out.
Ariane de Rothschild owner of Gitana Team This trimaran is a fantastic way to carry on the 140-year history of the Gitana boats and the research and development within our family. A new genre of appendage for an oceanic trimaran they are the result of a close collaboration between the Gitana design office naval architect Guillaume Verdier who is s talented as he is modest and the members of Team New Zealand Jamie France Bobby Kleinschmit as well as the Pure Design company. 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 Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is the culmination of serious consideration both on a technological and aesthetic level. 155 tonnes Air draught. The Maxi Edmond de Rothschild is the culmination of serious consideration both on a technological and aesthetic level.