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Jules Verne Trophy
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| Crewed round the world via the three capes |
| A few have attempted it, but those who have had the honour of engraving the name of their crew and their boat on it are rare. |
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From 1st January 2010
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Record attempt on Groupama 3
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Crewed Round the World
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During their first attempt in January 2008, Franck Cammas and his nine crew were constantly ahead of the record time
set by Géronimo and Orange 2. Yet we recall that off New Zealand on a certain 18th February, the port float
snapped, leading to Groupama 3's capsize.
Though the men were safe and sound and quickly airlifted by helicopter
by New Zealand rescuers, the maxi trimaran was badly damaged. However, thanks to the unfailing support of Groupama, the trimaran
was towed, lifted onto a cargo ship and has since been restored to its former glory at the Multiplast yard in Brittany.
Second
attempt: on 16th November 2009, after 10 days at sea, Franck Cammas called the Jules Verne Trophy team to inform them
that an aft beam bulkhead had broken, leading to serious damage to the float. Groupama 3 slowly made headway towards Cape
Town and was therefore abandoning this particular Jules Verne Trophy...
At the point the damage occurred, Groupama
3 still had a 345 mile lead over Orange 2 (that is over half a day) and was making headway at an average speed in excess of
25 knots.
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Time to beat: 50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 secondsOn 20th April 1993 Bruno Peyron headed a team which completed the first legendary round the world in 79 days, 6 hours,
15 minutes and 56 seconds and thus became the first crew to win the `Jules Verne Trophy'.
In seventeen years
there have been twenty attempts to beat the record, only six of which have borne fruit: Bruno Peyron in 1993, Peter
Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston in 1994, Olivier de Kersauson in 1997, Bruno Peyron in 2002, Olivier de
Kersauson in 2004 and Bruno Peyron again in 2005.
In 2005, Bruno Peyron placed the bar very high: 50 days,
16 hours, 20 minutes and 4 seconds... It is the main aim of the year once again and a challenge taken up by Franck and his
men.
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The Jules Verne Trophy course (21,760 nautical miles)It begins by crossing the start line defined by an imaginary line linking the Créac'h lighthouse on the island of Ushant
and the Lizard Point lighthouse. From there the aim is to circumnavigate the globe by leaving the Cape of Good Hope,
Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn to port, and crossing the finish line, described above, in the opposite direction.
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