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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>SPEED Sailing Resource - Trophee Jules Vernes</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF> <H1>Trophee Jules Vernes - Overview</H1> </P> In 1985, the idea of circumnavigating the world in less than 80 days was formulated by a sailor <b>Yves Le Cornec</b>. During the summer of <b>1990</b> a group of sailors assembled in Paris to define the game plan for the challenge imagined by one of their peers. <p> The `80 days' were a pretext, both elegant and media-oriented, which happened to correspond prefectly with the natural evolution of sailing events and the development of over 30 years of ocean-racing. 100 days would be less significant, and 50 days today, would be a technological impossibility. <P> <HR> On 31st January 1993, the catamarans <i>Enza New Zealand</i> skippered by Peter Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston, and <i>Commodore Explorer</i>, skippered by Bruno Peyron, were the first to challenge for the trophy. <i>Enza New Zealand</i> retired due to a collision in the Indian Ocean on 26th February. </P> On 20th April 1993, Bruno Peyron and his team completed the challenge around the world in <b>79 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes and 56 seconds</b>, becoming the first to win the "Trophee Jules Verne" </P> <i>Enza New Zealand</i> and the trimaran <i>Lyonaisse des Eaux</i> skippered by Olivier de Kersauson, left early 1994 (?) in an attempt to break the record. After some grueling racing, <i>Enza New Zealand</i> set a new record at <B>74 days (and some hours ...)</B>. <i>Lyonaisse des Eaux</i> also broke the original record by about 3 days. </P> <IMG SRC="pictures/tjv_03.jpg" ALIGN="left" ALT="Sport-Elec"> Early 1997, Olivier de Kesauson set out again on the same (but improved) trimaran, this time sponsored by <i>Sport-Elec.</i> Again the record was shattered, and is now standing at <b>71 days 14hrs 18min 8sec</b> </P> Early 1998, Tracy Edwards and her all female crew set out to break this record. They are racing on Peter Blake's modified catamaran, now sponsored by <EM> Royal & Sunalliance<EM> </P> <CENTER> <P><A HREF="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Fishwick/ayrs.htm" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="Pictures/burgtin2.gif" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" ALT="Space donated by: AYRS (link)" BORDER="0" VSPACE="20"></A> </CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>