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Gitana trimaran foiling. In fact it was Guillaume Verdier and his associates who worked in collaboration with the Gitana. Revolutionary Gitana 17 trimaran to foil solo across oceans at 50 knots The most radical of the new Ultime trimarans the incredible Gitana 17 is designed to foil at over 50 knots and cross up to. 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.

Designed by Guillaume Verdier the foil genius behind the Americas Cup winning Emirates Team New Zealand Gitana 17 is designed to be sailed solo and to beat the round the world record. Transformer le Multi70 Edmond de Rothschild un 70 pieds initialement construit pour courir en équipage. Watch the upper right corner to view how trims affects speed.

Gitana 17 le bateau-volant. Transformed into an experimental flying trimaran which makes L foils progress quickly the most efficient at the time the Mod 70 Gitana 15 returned under the hand of Guillaume Verdier one of the pioneers of the Team New Zealand foiler during the Americas Cup. 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.

Gitana sold their MOD70 and I thought that they were abandoning the project but in fact the modified floating Tri just left room for the team to embark on a new foiling trimaran project now. 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. Spare the mast tilt central dagger and you can relate with your own foiling beachcat being A FP F20 S9 IFly or whatever you might be riding to foil.

Vannes France July 17 2017 The first oceanic trimaran designed to fly offshore was launched today in southwest Brittany under the proud gaze of. A revolutionary 100ft fully foiling oceangoing trimaran capable of covering more than 900 miles in a day and sailing at speeds of 50 knots was launched in Lorient this week. Gitana 17-100 Trimaran Foiler-Launch 71717.

Gitana foiling Trimaran full transition setup from floating to fliying mode. Indeed this maxi-trimaran embodies the offshore racing universe and that of foiling which is predominantly practiced within harbours as is the case in the Americas Cup. T-foil float rudders 2 L-shaped foils 2 daggerboard on the central hull 1 T-foil rudder on the central hull 1 Naval architects.