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Gitana trimaran foiling. Les membres de Gitana Team se sont lancés un défi. Watch the upper right corner to view how trims affects speed. 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.

Vannes France July 17 2017 The first oceanic trimaran designed to fly offshore was launched today in southwest Brittany under the proud gaze of. In fact it was Guillaume Verdier and his associates who worked in collaboration with the Gitana. 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.

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. So in the starboard float is a C-shaped foil while in the port float is an L. Gitana foiling Trimaran full transition setup from floating to fliying mode.

Already published but worth seeing again. 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. 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.

Launch of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild first foiling offshore trimaran 18072017 At 0830 GMT this Monday the first oceanic trimaran designed to fly offshore was launched in Vannes south-west Brittany under the proud gaze of her owners Ariane and Benjamin de Rothschild her designers and builders and of course the whole of Gitana Team supporting skipper Sébastien Josse. 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. Team Verdier in collaboration with the Gitana design office.

The MOD70 Multi One Design 70ft is a well-proven ocean-racing trimaran that regulary hits 40 knot speeds. Gitana 17 le bateau-volant. 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.