Gitana 13

Gitana 13

Gitana 13 in 2010.
Other names	Innovation Explorer Orange Kingfisher 2 Swift
Designer(s)	Gilles Ollier
Builder	Multiplast
Launched	2000
Racing career
Skippers	Loïck Peyron Bruno Peyron Ellen MacArthur Lionel Lemonchois
Specifications
Displacement	20 t (20 long tons; 22 short tons)
Length	33.50 m (109.9 ft) (LOA)
Beam	17.50 m (57.4 ft)
Mast height	39 m (128 ft)
Sail area	610 m^2 (6,600 sq ft) (upwind) 800 m^2 (8,600 sq ft) (downwind)
Crew	10–12

Gitana 13 is an ocean-racing catamaran. She has had several names, including:^[1]

• 2000: Innovation Explorer, skippered by Loïck Peyron. She was built for the 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

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

Records

• 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.^[2]
• As Gitana 13, she set the transpacific record between San Francisco and Yokohama in 43 days, 3 minutes and 18 seconds, in 2008.^[2]

References

1. Les maxi-multicoques
2. WSSRC round the world record