Gitana 13

Gitana 13
Racing career
Gitana 13 in 2010.
Other names	Innovation Explorer Orange Kingfisher 2 Swift
Designer(s)	Gilles Ollier
Builder	Multiplast
Launched	2000
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 m² (6,600 sq ft) (upwind) 800 m² (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 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]

Records
Preceded by Sport Elec with Olivier de Kersauson	Jules Verne Trophy 2002–2004	Succeeded by Geronimo with Olivier de Kersauson

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