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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>SPEED Sailing Resource - Trophee Jules Vernes</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#FFFFFF> <B>PRESENTATION</B> <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> A new adventure was born, <b>the Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours"</b> created and the <b>"Trophée Jules Verne"* invented</b>, with a set of rules ratified by national and international authorities. <p> <b>In October 1992</b>, the "Trophée Jules Verne" and its rules were officially presented at the Yacht Club de France by the members of the Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours" presided over by <b>Jacques Lang, French Minister of Culture</b> at the time. <p> Under the <b>patronage of the French Ministry of Culture</b>, the Trophée was commissioned to a contemporary artist, Tom Shannon, and funded by the F.N.A.C. (Fonds National des Arts Contemporains) and the <b>Peter Stuyvesant Foundation.</b>. <p> <b>On 31st January 1993</b>, the catamarans <b><i>Enza New Zealand</i></b>, skippered by Peter Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston, and <b><i>Commodore Explorer</i></b>, 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> <b>On 20th April 1993, Bruno Peyron</b> and his team completed the challenge around the world in <b>79 days, 6 hours, 15 minutes and 56 seconds</b>, becoming <b>the first to win</b> the "Trophée Jules Verne". They were officially presented with the Trophée on 3rd December 1993, by <b>Alfred Pacquement, attachée to the French Ministry of Culture and by Florence Arthaud, president of the Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours"</b>, at a special ceremony at the Paris Boat Show. <p> <b>On 16th January 1994, <i>ENZA New Zealand</i>, with skippers Peter Blake and Robin Knox-Johnston</b> and their crew set off for their second bid for the Trophée Jules Verne. They completed their circumnavigation on <b>1st April, 1994</b> in <b>74 days, 22 hours, 17 minutes and 22 seconds</b>, thus <b>becoming the new Trophée holders</b> breaking the record set by <i>Commodore Explorer</i> in 1993 by 4 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes and 34 seconds. <p> The "Trophée Jules Verne" was handed over to Peter Blake and his crew by Bruno Peyron at a ceremony at the Musée de la Marine in Paris on 30th September, 1994 from where it was flown to New Zealand and is presently on loan and on exhibition at the Hobson Wharf Maritime Museum, Auckland. It's permanent base is the <b>Musée de la Marine</b> in Paris. Each new record holder is presented with a small replica of the original. <p> (* Registered Trademark) <p> <hr> <p> <B>"THE ASSOCIATION "TOUR DU MONDE EN 80 JOURS"</B> <p> The Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours" is open to all those who have prepared a project with the objective to attempt to claim the "Trophée Jules Verne". <p> The role of the Association is to ensure worldwide promotion of the "Trophée Jules Verne", to protect the ethics of the event and to ensure that the rules are respected.<p> The Association also centralizes and distributes information for the different challenges and coordinates and organizes the departures and arrivals of all record attempts in conjunction with international sporting bodies. <p> The Association is today made up of a group of sailors who, as guarantors of the ethics of the Association and the spirit of the "Trophée Jules Verne", have been chosen for their contribution, both past and present, to the development of the challenge for the "Trophée Jules Verne":<br> <ul> <li>Florence Arthaud<br> <li>Peter Blake<br> <li>Jean François Coste<br> <li>Yvon Fauconnier<br> <li>Gabriel Guilly<br> <li>Robin Knox-Johnston<br> <li>Titouan Lamazou<br> <li>Yves Le Cornec<br> <li>Bruno Peyron<br> <li>Olivier de Kersauzon<br> </ul> <p> <b>Within the context of the "Trophée Jules Verne", the following challengers have announced and or completed* their projects and today are the active members of the Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours": <p> <ul> <li>Florence Arthaud<br> <li>Peter Blake et Robin Knox-Johnston<br> <li>Titouan Lamazou<br> <li>Bruno Peyron<br> <li>Olivier de Kersauzon<br></b> </ul> <p> <hr> <p> <B>RULES FOR THE "TROPHEE JULES VERNE"</B> <p> <b>Préamble</b> <p> The "Trophée Jules Verne" is unique and will be awarded to the challenger who breaks the record of the round the world voyage under sail. (See page 1)<br> To become the holder of this Trophée, the challenger would now have to better this record and to have respected all the conditions within the ratified Rules.<br> The holder of the Trophée retains the Trophée and title as official record holder until such time as his/her record has been bettered. The Trophée in this case would then be handed over to the new record holder.<p> <b>The route</b><p> Cross over the start line symbolised by an imaginary line drawn between the Créac'h lighthouse on Ushant Island, and the Lizard lighthouse. <br> Sail around the world leaving the capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn to port. <br> Cross over the line (as above) from the opposite direction. <p> <b>Date and Duration</b> <p> The start line is declared open as of the date of the official ratification of the present Rules namely 21st April 1992. <p> <b>Participants</b> <p> Propulsion of the boat must solely be by natural forces of the wind and of the crew. However all other forms of non-propulsive energy will be authorised. (Annexe I)<br> The "Trophée Jules Verne" challenge is open to all types of boat with no restrictions. <p> <b>Crew</b> <p> The number of crew members aboard is unrestricted. <p> <b>Assistance</b> <p> No physical outside assistance will be authorised. <i>(Annexe II)</i> <p> <b>Security</b> <p> Each challenging vessel shall be equipped with a minimum of safety equipment. <i> (Annexe III)</i> <p> <b>Responsability</b> <p> The boats and the crews attempting the "Trophée Jules Verne" challenge do so at their own risk. The boats should be in a thoroughly seaworthy condition, guaranteeing total autonomy at sea.<br> Assistance and rescue at sea will comply to the international conventions in force. <p> <b>Entry fees and conditions</b> <p> The entry fee is 80,000 French Francs. <br> The challenger's entry must be submitted three (3) months prior to the anticipated departure date. Each challenger who has paid his entry fee then becomes a member of the Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours" and accepts the articles of the Association. <p> <b>Prize/s</b> <p> The "Trophée Jules Verne" may include prize-money if a prize-money sponsor, hereafter referred to as the Event Sponsor, is found for the event.<br> The Event Sponsor would, in all cases, respect the Communications Charter as defined by the Association "Tour du Monde en 80 Jours".<br> The IYRU considers that prize-money for a speed sailing record would not in any way jeopardise the amateur status of any members of the crew. <p> <hr> <p> <FONT SIZE=+2 COLOR=D5AA2A><B>ANNEXES</B></FONT> <p> <b>Annexe I</b> <p>" Only human power may be used to work the craft, with the following exceptions : <p> I) Electricity can be used for instrumentation, navigation, communication, automatic steering and for pourposes such as lighting, heating, cooking, etc...Generators, including motors, solar panels, wind or water turbines can be used to provide electric power together with the appropriate batteries and control gear. however, power of any non-human kind may not be used for handling the sails, nor for operating any other part of the craft's gear except for charging batteries, pumping bilges, loading, unloading and transferring water-ballast or weighing anchor. Power-operated pumps must not provide any element of propulsion.<p> II) In handling the craft's sails and gear there is no objection to various forms of power transmission, such as hydraulic, provided there is no element of power storage beyond that associated with materials in their conventional sailing applications." <p> <b>Annexe II</b> <p> WSSRC : "Without assistance means that a vessel may not receive any kind of outside assitance wathever, nor take on board any supplies, materials or equipment during a record attempt. A crew might decide to anchor or even to beach their craft for repairs but if if so they must do so entirely without help. It is permitted to drop, but not to pick up, tapes, personal letters or newspapers during a passage." <p> <b>Annexe IIB</b> <p>WSSRC :"Any type of navigational equipment is allowed and there is no objection to any type of information or advice being transmittedto the vessel or received from it. However, the vessel must be sailed and directed by the crew on board, without any element of physical "remote control"." <p> <b>Annexe III</b> <p> "The IYRU/WSSRC will refuse to ratify any claim for a record if it can be shown that the craft used failed to comply with the minimum legal requirements for a sea-going craft of its size and type laid down by International Maritime Law and by its contry of origin or registration." </BODY> </HTML>