An Atlantic crossing as if you were right there! Part 1 of 2
Pierre, Serge, Catherine, Sylvie, Hervé and Vincent: the 6 crew aboard the Outremer 51 Piment Rouge on the startline of the ARC+. On the program, a transatlantic passage in “competitive” mode from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, with a stopover in Mindelo, Cape Verde, before the big crossing to Grenada, toward the southern end of the West Indies. We take a look at a few excerpts from the crew’s logbook…
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Publié le
25/05/2022
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Crew of Piment Rouge
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184
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2022
About Piment Rouge Our catamaran is an Outremer 51. She reached the Canary Islands from La Grande Motte in the South of France - some 1,577 nautical miles - in a week, with peak speeds exceeding 20 knots. Piment Rouge is 51’4” (15.65 m) in length by 24’10” (7.57) in beam and weighs 25,265 lbs (11.46 t). Her draft with the daggerboards up is just over 3 feet (0.95 m), and her air draft, just shy of 76 feet (23.10 m). She has a 980 sq ft (91 m²) mainsail, a 409 sq ft (38 m²) solent and several downwind sails (from the smallest to the largest: an 882 sq ft (82 m²) Code 0, a 1,324 sq ft (123 m²) g…
