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418 Entered for 2006 Zwitserleven Round Texel Race
On Monday June 12th 2006, the organization of the 29th Zwitserleven Round Texel Race received 418 pre-entries. As of Wednesday June 14th, sailors from all over the world will drop in and the annual catamaran spectacle will start on the Dutch Wadden Island Texel. The complete national multihull top is present, among which last year’s overall winners Mischa Heemskerk and Sander de Boer and record-holders Wouter Samama and Jeroen van Leeuwen. Zwitserleven Sailing Team Booth/Dercksen, part of the Dutch Olympic team, will try again its luck in winning the line honours. A helicopter will give the famous smokey starting signal on Saturday June 17th at about noon.
Round Texel Co-ordinator Edwin Lodder: "For now, the pre-entries are less than in 2005, but we expect late comers. Especially with the good weather forecast for the coming week. After last year’s rough conditions, many participants decided to wait and see what will happen this time." At the moment, the fleet represents ten nationalities. Former overall winner and silver medallist of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Darren Bundock (AUS), and French top sailor Jean-Christophe Mourniac are back to challenge the Dutchmen. The young winners of the Texel Dutch Open 2005, Kearns and Bearns (GBR), will defend their title. This championship, officially recognized by the Royal Dutch Yachting Association, is to be sailed from June 14th until June 16th and exists of course races. Many sailors consider it as a good training for the Zwitserleven Round Texel on Saturday. On Friday afternoon, ten teams will participate in the first TNG Short Track. They will sail knock-out races and the last two boats will battle against each other in the final.
Orange II and Bruno Peyron Move to Code Orange
Newport, Thursday 8th June 2006 - Frenchman Bruno Peyron, the skipper of Orange II, has moved to "Code Orange " today, which means that Peyron and the crew of the giant maxi-catamaran may set sail in the next few days on their attempt at the North Atlantic crossing record, between New York (USA) and The Lizard (GB).Bruno Peyron and Orange II Set to Attempt Transatlantic Record
- French adventurer Bruno Peyron is on standby for the "window of
opportunity" to break American Steve
Fossett's North Atlantic crossing
record (from New York to The Lizard, in England)
- Fossett's record is 4 days, 17h, 28 minutes and 06 seconds. (established in 2001)
- By comparison, a cruise ship takes 6 days to make the 3100 nautical mile Transatlantic voyage
- Only Peyron has tackled this record since Fawcett's '01 accomplishment; in 2004, he missed the record by a mere 31 minutes
- Peyron will use as his weapon the giant maxi-catamaran Orange II
- The boat is longer (121 ft.) and nearly as wide (59 ft.) as a tennis court
- It stands, with its rotating wing mast, as tall as the Arc de Triomphe
- It sails downwind with 5X more sail area than a Volvo Open 70
- The best weather would be a low pressure system, with constant wind at
27-35 knots (and no waves), that Orange II could ride -- without
interruption -- across the entire ocean
- To beat Fossett's record, a boat speed average of 26 knots must be maintained at all times
- Peyron holds the 24-hour speed record (established in 2004) aboard Orange II, having averaged 29.42 knots.
- Peyron holds the around-the-world speed record (established in 2005) aboard Orange II (50 d, 16 h, 20 min, 4 sec, established in 2005)
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