You are Olivier De Kersauson, proud owner of a 120-foot white elephant. Bruno Peyron and Orange II have put the Jules Verne record out of reach and you are stuck in Australia after breaking down during Tracy Edwards’ lame race around the world. What do you do? You could sell the boat…or you could make up a new record to attack. That record would be the outright round Australia record, and today Geronimo took off on her lonely quest to maintain some sort of relevance in the world of mega-multihull record breaking. This will be a record of dubious distinction, and there are million more of a similar ilk (around Tasmania, around Long Island, Cape Town to Rio…you get the idea) that De Kersauson can invent if he wants to keep at it. Anyhow, at least he has put together an excellent website, on which you can follow his minor league quests. Don’t get me wrong. Geronimo is a great boat. You can see why in this short video clip. But she belongs to a previous design generation that has been surpassed. De Kersauson is going to need a new boat if he wants to go after real records again…
“Hey, Olivier! After this one let’s try to set a Sydney-Ushuaia record…”
(Photo: Andrea Francolini via Sailing Anarchy)
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