{"id":681,"date":"2005-02-08T12:43:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/orange-ii-entering-the-indian-ocean\/"},"modified":"2005-02-08T12:43:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T11:43:00","slug":"orange-ii-entering-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/en\/orange-ii-entering-the-indian-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange II entering the Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde; font-size: 12pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-344\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; float: left;\" title=\"Orange II entering Indian Ocen (\u00a9 Photo Gilles Martin-Raget)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/Orange-II-entre-dans-lOcean-Indien.jpg\" alt=\"Orange-II-entre-dans-lOcean-Indien\" width=\"220\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/Orange-II-entre-dans-lOcean-Indien.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2005\/02\/Orange-II-entre-dans-lOcean-Indien-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/span><span>Orange II entering the Indian Ocean<span style=\"font-family: arial black,avant garde;\"><br \/>______________________________________________________________________<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Express sailing for maxi catamaran Orange II which has crossed Cape of Good Hope longitude in less than 15 days. She improves of 2d 6h 16&#8242; the reference time hold by Cheyenne which confirm the abilities of that 37-meter long multihull.<\/strong><br \/><em><strong>Bruno Peyron<\/strong><\/em> : <em>&#8220;&#8230;We are really amazed by the potential of the boat which is quicker what we are thinking about&#8230;&#8221;, declared the skipper of Orange II a few days after the start from Ushant. But when recording that first record on that RTW attempt, he has to look at things in perspectives : &#8220;&#8230;we are the first amazed. However, the essential is to last&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An affirmation shared by <strong>Gilles Ollier,<\/strong> creator with the <em><strong>Gilles Ollier Design Team and builder of the boat in Multiplast shed in Vannes<\/strong><\/em> : <em>&#8220;&#8230;we are confident of the high speed potential of that boat. But, as usual, we have hard worked on the reliability in order to allow the crew to sail the boat in a good safety&#8230;&#8221;.<\/em><br \/>If Orange II has a great advance in time as in distance \u2013 quite 4 days and 1800 miles \u2013 nothing is never done at sea. Ellen MacArthur has showed it to us on her winning RTW record attempt in single-handed, loosing a gain of quite 5 days between Cape Horn to Equator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference marks<\/strong><br \/>Ushant \/ Cape of Good Hope \/ 14d 08h 19&#8242; \/ Average speed 22.4 knots<br \/>Equator \/ Cape of Good Hope \/ 7d 05h 22&#8242;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orange II entering the Indian Ocean______________________________________________________________________ Express sailing for maxi catamaran Orange II which has crossed Cape of Good Hope longitude in less than 15 days. She improves of 2d 6h 16&#8242; the reference time hold by Cheyenne which confirm the abilities of that 37-meter long multihull.Bruno Peyron : &#8220;&#8230;We are really amazed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-composite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Orange II entering the Indian Ocean - Multiplast<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.multiplast.eu\/en\/orange-ii-entering-the-indian-ocean\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Orange II entering the Indian Ocean - Multiplast\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Orange II entering the Indian Ocean______________________________________________________________________ Express sailing for maxi catamaran Orange II which has crossed Cape of Good Hope longitude in less than 15 days. 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