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Press Release N° 3
Lorient, Wednesday July 28, 16:00
records program
ORANGE II ON HER WAY TO NEW YORK !
The Orange II maxi-catamaran, skippered by Bruno Peyron, has left her Atlantic base in Lorient (Le Défi technical base) today at 15:45 and is heading for New York, her sights set on the North Atlantic record (crewed).
Orange II should be in New York around August 8, and immediately switch on the stand-by mode in order to seize the best weather window possible.
After having been owned by Jet Services V catamaran for 10 years, the absolute record is today held by Steve Fossett (USA) with only 4 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes and 6 seconds. This benchmark time was established aboard the PlayStation maxi-catamaran at a dazzling 25.78 knots of average speed!
Bruno Peyron, prior to his departure: "we will try and leave with the boat as light as possible, but should be at least 11 on board. We'll set our objectives progressively, the first one possibly being the 24-hour record - and maybe we'll try and approach the 700-mile barrier... As far as the Atlantic record itself is concerned, we know that the current performance is outstanding, and we'll have the obligation to leave New York at the end of August, in order to pursue our program of records in the Mediterranean in early September. The chance of finding a weather window in such a short period of time reindexs quite reduced, and we know this period is not the best one could dream of for this record. Our goal is nevertheless to sail the boat as much as we can, in order to keep working on her optimisation for our next Jules Verne attempt next winter. And if we have a chance to add one more record to Orange's list of achievements, we won't miss it. We dearly wish to come home to Marseilles with a substantial result, of any nature?.
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About Orange ...
Orange France is a subsidiary of Orange SA, which includes all the Mobile Phone activities of the France Telecom Group. Orange France is the leading mobile phone operator with a market share exceeding 48,8%, and more than 20,4 millions of customers (March 31th 2004 figure).
Official partners : Orange, France Telecom
Institutional partners: Ville de Marseille , Comunauté urbaine Marseille Provence Métropole
Official suppliers : TD Com, International Peinture, Henri Lloyd, Sony, UKHO, Lomac , Yamaha, Nera, Valderas Consulting, Telemar Scandinavia, Aramid Rigging, Southern Spars.
Copyright-free pictures (for press purposes) upon request :
Gilles Martin-Raget +33/(0)6 07 55 45 85 - gmr@martin-raget.com
Press Contact Maxi-Catamaran Orange :
Bénédicte Etienne - C Sports Communication : +33/(0)6 87 30 12 83 - benedicte.etienne@csports.fr
Pierre Giboire - Agence Mer & Média - pg.mer.media@wanadoo.fr
Press Contact France Télécom / Orange :
Sébastien Goalès - France Télécom : +33/(0)1 44 44 93 93 - sebastien.goales@francetelecom.com
Marie-Cécile Leprat - C Sprts Communication : +33/(0)1 58 47 84 58 - mc.leprat@csports.fr
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