The maxi trimaran Spindrift2 (formerly Banque Populaire V) will be making it's racing debut for Spindrift Racing in the upcoming RORC Rolex Fastnet race.
From the following article on the Spindrift Racing website:
http://www.spindrift-racing.com/2013/08/first-race-for-the-giant-trimaran-spindrift-2/
After a studious July, punctuated by two long, intensive training sessions, Spindrift 2, the largest racing trimaran in the world, will compete in the 45th edition of the classic, legendary and very British Rolex Fastnet Race. The colourful 608-mile course starts in Cowes, England’s sailing Mecca, passes along the coast of Cornwall and round the famous Irish rock called Fastnet, returning via the Isles of Scilly to the finish in Plymouth bay.
Competing in one of the greatest RORC races is a huge motivation for the two skippers and they have one eye on the record (1 day, 8 hours and 48 minutes) set by the same boat in the 2011 race. It is an ambitious benchmark and to beat it they will need to be faultless on board and make the best of the weather conditions available.
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