Hold on to your seat guys because here you get 15 minutes worth of French speed sailor. Everything goes, kite boards, windsurfers, Orange 2, ORMA 60, open 60, open 70 and what else kind of contraption uncle Pierre build in his garage.

Rules, cover a 5 or 8 mile stretch water in the fastest time possible. Ergo we are talking sustained average speeds of 30 knots here and they have to keep it up for at least 10 minutes.

This is the high res file. 70 megs big, so download to disk before playing.

http://www.grandprixpetitnavire.com/defi/video/DPN2005SSZIK768.wmv

Also note the windward canted rig of those ORMA 60's.



There are also low res versions available, as well as other vids of same event, at this page :

http://www.grandprixpetitnavire.com/defi/video.php


The event is called Le grand Prix Petit Navire

http://www.grandprixpetitnavire.com/

The event was won by gitana 10 (If I understand that French right) with 32,70 knots.

Enjoy !

Wouter