Lending Club 2 departs on LA to Honolulu record attempt

stellar!



Barry

 

https://youtu.be/xXkZdoYoboA

 

Thanks, Corley!

 

so what was their average speed? 3 days, 18 hours LA to Hawaii.

 

About 28 MPH . . .

 

From point to point is 2215 nautical miles.

With 90 hrs, you get 24.6 kts point to point.

As a wild guess, add 15% to account for actual distance traveled and you get an impressive 28.3 kts average boat speed.

Speaking of impressive, I was looking at the records and I noted that LC2 is already the second fastest boat for average speed (27.41 kts) and passage records. Only BP5 has done better with a 32 kts and a 32.94 kts.

 

Lending club 2 is the former French maxi trimaran Banque populaire VII, it has been rented by the current owner to Renault Laplanche .

 

Sounds even better if you say "we beat the record by 25%"

RW

 

I knew it was a lease and had sailed under a previous name, but had lost track of what it was previously called.

From wikipedia, the BP7 was a rename from Groupama 3:

Banque Populaire VII, formerly Groupama 3, is a sailing trimaran designed for transoceanic record-setting. She is one of the fastest ocean-going sailing vessels in the world and a previous holder of the Jules Verne Trophy. She was skippered by French yachtsman Franck Cammas, with a crew of ten and sponsored by the French insurance company Groupama.
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Interestingly enough, BP7 and Groupama3 are listed as 103 ft and LC2 is listed as 105 ft in the record book.

I am guessing that there has been an update since earlier campaigns.

Also interesting is that all of the top positions below are actually just 2 boats with 2 names for the 131 footer and 3 names for the 103/105 footer.

 

LOL!!! And there glasses were 3/4 full the whole time!

Barry