Cape Horn in 32 Days
It is at the speed of 28 knots that the maxi catamaran Orange II has rounded Cape Horn! Bruno Peyron’s giant multihull crossed the longitude 67°16 W at 23:32 GMT on Friday February 25, 2005.
Orange II has joined Cape Horn in 32 days 13 hours and 29 minutes. She finishes with the Pacific Ocean with a 7 days and three hours lead over Cheyenne’s time of passage in 2004 whereas Fossett’s cat was going to establish the absolute record around the world in 58 days.
By the same time, Orange II establishes a new official reference on the crossing of the Southern Pacific Ocean between Tasmania and Cape Horn in 8 days time 18 hours and 06 minutes. This record will have to be officialized by the WSSRC, just like the record of Indian Ocean established one week ago between the Cape of Agulhas (South Africa) and Tasmania in 9 days 11 hours and 04 minutes.
Intermediate times of passage to Cape Horn are incr edibles. Orange II will have spent 18 days and 8 hours from the Cape of Good Hope, that is to say nearly three days better than the preceding time of reference on this course held by Loïck Peyron on Innovation Explorer during The Race. She also establishes a new time of reference between the Cape Leeuwin and Cape Horn in 10 days and 23 hours, which is nearly two days of better than the preceding time of reference established by Bruno Peyron himself aboard Orange I during the Jules Verne Trophy in 2002…
Various times of passage to Cape Horn
Ushant - Cape Horn
Orange II, Bruno Peyron, 2004 : 32 days 13 hours 29 minutes
Cheyenne, Steve Fossett, 2004 : 39 days 16 hours 16 minutes (+7d 02h 47’)
Good Hope - Cape Horn
Orange II, Bruno Peyron, 2004 : 18 days 08 hours 08 minutes
Innovation Explorer, Loïc Peyron, 2001 : 21 days 07 hours 05 minutes
Leeuwin - Cape Horn
Orange II, Bruno Peyron, 2004 : 10 days 23 hou rs 35 minutes
Orange I, Bruno Peyron, 2002 : 12 days 19 hours 30 minutes
Tasmania - Cap Horn (Pacific Ocean record WSSRC)
Orange II, Bruno Peyron, 2004 : 8 days 18 hours 06 minutes
Cheyenne, Steve Fossett, 2004: 11 days 20 hours 18 minutes
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