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2008/02/14 - 13h51
New time for Groupama 3 between Ushant and Cape Leeuwin
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Groupama 3 crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin at 0951 UT this Thursday. In so doing Franck Cammas and his nine crew
have established a new reference time between Ushant and the SW tip of Australia, of 21 days 2 hours. They have improved on
the time set by Bruno Peyron and his men in 2005 by 11 hours 6 minutes.
However, the difficult conditions encountered
by the maxi trimaran since her passage of the Cape of Good Hope, early afternoon on 6th February, has not enabled the crew
of Groupama 3 to add the reference time between the two capes to their list of achievements.
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