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Gitana 13

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Designer(s)
  
Gilles Ollier

Mast height
  
39 m (128 ft)

Length
  
34 m

Builder
  
Multiplast

Launched
  
2000

Beam
  
18 m

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Other names
  
Innovation ExplorerOrangeKingfisher 2Swift

Skippers
  
Loïck PeyronBruno PeyronEllen MacArthurLionel Lemonchois

Displacement
  
20 t (20 long tons; 22 short tons)

French gitana 13 sailing team breaks route d or record


Gitana 13 is an ocean-racing catamaran. She has had several names, including:

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  • 2000: Innovation Explorer, skippered by Loïck Peyron. She was built for the Race, a no-limits nonstop crewed circumnavigation in which she took second place.
  • 2002: Orange, won the Jules Verne Trophy with skipper Bruno Peyron in 2002
  • 2003: Kingfisher 2, skippered by Ellen MacArthur. She broke her mast in 2003, south-East Kerguelen Islands, whilst competing for Jules Verne Trophy.
  • 2006: Gitana 13 with skipper Lionel Lemonchois
  • 2010–2012: Swift

    • Gitana 13 Gitana 13 Wikipedia

    She is the sistership of Club Med, winner of The Race with skipper Grant Dalton in 2000.

    Gitana 13 ready for another record


    Records

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  • As Orange, she won the Jules Verne Trophy (Around the world sailing record) in 64 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds, in 2002.
  • As Gitana 13, she set the transpacific record between San Francisco and Yokohama in 43 days, 3 minutes and 18 seconds, in 2008.

    • Gitana 13 Gitana 13 Final Sprint to San Francisco YachtPalscom

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    Gitana 13 Latitude 38 39Lectronic Latitude

    References

    Gitana 13 Wikipedia
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