Lending Club 2 is heading for another world record
by Jan Harley on 19 Apr 2015
World sailing speed record breaker - Lending Club 2 Lloyd Images
Lending Club 2 is slated to cross the start line at Castle Hill Light in the early hours of Sunday morning, 19 April, beginning the passage which is anticipated to earn the team its second world speed sailing record in as many tries. The Newport to Bermuda course record is currently held by Steve Fossett, who, aboard his 125-foot catamaran Playstation, set a time of 38 hours, 35 minutes and 53 seconds – at an average speed of 16 knots – in 2000.
With ideal conditions predicted, Lending Club 2 – which is capable of speeds over 40 knots – looks likely to complete the 635-nautical mile course in 28 hours or less. Details on how to follow the team follow below.
On Thursday, the Cowes to Dinard record, which the team set just two weeks ago (138-nautical miles in 5 hours and 15 minutes at an average speed of 26.36 knots) was ratified by the World Sailing Speed Racing Council and will be included, as well, in the Guinness World Records.
The Lending Club Sailing team: Co-skippers Renaud Laplanche (FRA/USA) and Ryan Breymaier (USA), who is also the Project Manager; Captain Jan Majer (USA); Navigator Boris Herrman (GER); Roland Jourdain (FRA); Jean-Baptiste Le Vaillant (FRA); Stanislas Delbarre (FRA) and Quin Bisset (NZL) who handles onboard media.
WHO: Co-skippers Renaud Laplanche and Ryan Breymaier
WHAT: the 635-nautical mile Newport to Bermuda course world sailing speed record.
WHERE: aboard the 105’ trimaran Lending Club 2
WHEN: departure after midnight Saturday, 18 April, 2015, from Castle Hill Light, Newport, R.I., USA
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