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WSSRC Ratify Route de l'Or Record
The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) has ratified the New York to San Francisco record set by Gitana 13. Lionel LEMONCHOIS (FRA) and his nine crew onboard the 110-foot catamaran Gitana 13 smashed the 10 year old record for Route de l’Or. The previous record was 57 days, 3 hours and 21 minu...
New record for Gitana 13 of 43 days 38 minutes
Gitana 13 crossed the finish line of La Route de l’Or, situated just off the infamous island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay, at 1707 (UT). After over 43 days 38 minutes at sea, including a forced five and a half day stand-by at Cape Horn, Lionel Lemonchois and his nine crew improved on the referen...
Gitana 13 expected into San Francisco this afternoon (UT)
At the 0930 position report, Gitana 13 still had 105 miles to go to make San Francisco Bay, the final destination of its adventure in the Route de l’Or. Now positioned on a direct course towards the finish, Lionel Lemonchois and his nine crew are set to cross the finish line situated on the outskirt...
A game of cat and mouse towards San Francisco
After setting out six weeks ago in the conquest of a record never before coveted by a maxi-multihull of Gitana 13’s dimensions, Lionel Lemonchois and his nine crew are experiencing their final hours at sea on this Route de l’Or. However, the weather situation currently reigning off the American coas...
Less than 1,000 miles to the goal
After setting out from New York over thirty nine days ago to challenge the Route de l’Or record, Gitana 13 passed under the symbolic barrier of 1,000 miles to go, shortly before midnight last night. Currently off the coast of Mexico (State of Lower Southern Carolina), Lionel Lemonchois and his nine ...
Climbing upwind
Aboard the maxi-catamaran equipped by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild the speed has picked up again. Finally free of the zone of calms yesterday morning, Lionel Lemonchois and his nine crew have got back together with weather conditions, which are more favourable to their progress towards San Francisco...
Final ‘sprint’ for Gitana 13
The fifth week at sea for Gitana 13 in the Route de l’Or has been marked by a change of hemisphere – early on Tuesday night – and by the crossing of the tricky Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone. And it was with a Doldrums, which proved considerably less cooperative than its Atlantic homologue, that Li...
Gitana's back into the Northen Hemisphere
Gitana 13’s recent return to the northern hemisphere corresponds to the second encounter with the Intertropical Convergence Zone for Lionel Lemonchois and his crew on this trip. The various difficulties in this meteorologically complex zone will dominate the attention of the ten men onboard. The cre...
From one Pacific to the next
The Route de l’Or stretches along both sides of the American continent, where unusual sailing conditions are the norm. Lionel Lemonchois and his nine-man crew will have experienced similar weather phenomena only weeks apart. As suggested by its slowing speeds, Gitana 13 is readying for its second ta...
Climbing the steps
At the end of the afternoon, the maxi-catamaran fitted out by Baron Benjamin de Rothschild will complete its 30th day at sea. Lionel Lemonchois and his nine-man crew are still jibing their way toward the northern hemisphere at a good clip in southeasterly winds blowing at an average of 12 knots....
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