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The trimaran Groupama 3, led by the French skipper Franck Cammas, won the Carthage Marseilles race setting a new trans-Mediterranean record. Cammas and his seven men crew sailed the 458 miles separating both cities in 17 hours 8 minutes and 23 seconds, beating Bruno Peyron’s 2004 record in 17 hours 56’, 33’.
Setting out from Marseilles on May 15 at 8:19 am (Tunisian time), the trimaran crossed the finishing line in Sidi Bou Said on Saturday May 16Â at 1:27 pm (Tunisian time).
Cammas who managed to steer a…Â Details
Evan Wollman’s newest record has a few things in common with some of the others he has set: It’s on the water, he had family and friends watching him, and it’s extremely repetitive.
But only this time it was on a jet ski and he wasn’t wearing a Speedo. And he was on the Severn River, not in a swimming pool.
Yesterday Wollman, 19, of Edgewater set a world record for the most distance covered on a personal watercraft within six hours. He traveled…Â Details
What will be the limit? From the current drops happening this new record will not be the last. However, this hasn’t been random heroes hucking themselves over huge waterfalls. The record has been held by professionals from the likes of Sean Baker, Corran Addison, Shannon Carroll, Tao Berman, Dave Grove, Ed Lucero, Paul Gamache, Tyler Brandt, and recently Pedro Olivia. These innovators have pushed the sport to a place few thought it could go. In March, Pedro’s decent went down in Campos Novo, Brazil on an Amazon tributary named Rio Sacre. The Salto Belo or Beautiful Falls stands 127 feet tall and only took Olivia 2.9 seconds to plunge to the rushing waters below. It only took Tyler Brandt a month to reclaim the crown of highest waterfall run in a kayak.
Back in 2007…Â Details & Picture
Mediterranean crossing record, Marseilles / Carthage Groupama 3 set off on the Mediterranean record this Friday morning at exactly 0719 UT according to the representative from the W.S.S.R.C, responsible for observing the departure of the maxi trimaran owned by the insurer-banker Groupama.
Groupama 3 will have to arrive in Carthage before 01hrs 15′ 33” (UT) on Saturday 16th May in order to break the record set by Bruno Peyron.Squalls and reduced visibility accompanied her passage across the start line situated abeam of the Pomegues lighthouse (43° 15.7′ N- 005° 17.4′ E), at the exit from the harbour of Marseilles, on the islands of Frioul.Franck Cammas and his 6 crew set off with … Details & Pictures
