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Gitana 18 - Is this the world’s fastest offshore trimaran?

This is an exceptional machine. Three years in design and build, the latest maxi Edmond de Rothschild, Gitana 18 has been designed to set new offshore records both fully crewed and solo. And while it’s a bold claim before the boat has even touched the water, there’s very good reason to believe the team when they say that they are expecting a 10-15% improvement in performance. After all, this is the team that led the foiling charge in the Ultim class after years of testing and development on a modified MOD70. Gitana 17 was the first 32m tri to get up onto foils, now it’s standard practice in this elite fleet of maxis. But while G17 was designed to fly in optimum conditions, the new sistership is designed to fly all the time given sufficient breeze and in big seas states. No one has cracked this yet, so to achieve this has required an ingenious and innovative approach. having been built in secret, as the new beast was revealed for the first time, we needed no encouragement to head over to her base in Lorient to see her for real and speak to some of the key players behind this extraordinary machine.