Hydroptere project - Two new boats with l'Hydroptere.ch a reality

9:16 PM Thu 4 Mar 2010 GMT

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The Hydropt?re project is not limited to the performance of the 60-feet trimaran which has beaten two world speed records at an average speed of over 50 knots in 2009 in the Mediterranean.

Alain Th?bault and his team decided to extend the limits of the project and planned to develop two new boats, with the ultimate objective of sailing around the world in approximately 40 days on l'Hydropt?re maxi.

To reach this objective, the team with the help of the 'pap?s' (retired engineers) and of their scientific adviser, The Swiss Technological Institute in Lausanne, decided to follow the same experimental process as that employed by Alain Th?bault in the development of l'Hydropt?re and to consider an intermediate step, that being to build on a reduced scale a test model i.e. l'Hydropt?re.ch.

l'Hydropt?re.ch will serve as a lab boat whose main purpose is to test geometries and behaviours in varied real conditions for the development of l'Hydropt?re maxi.

As a Swiss-French project l'Hydropt?re.ch is being built in two shipyards, one in Brittany and one in Switzerland. She should be launched beginning of summer 2010.

At the same time in Lorient, l'Hydropt?re is in a shipyard and she should be back in the water in spring.

Pictures of the flying catamaran's building www.hydroptere.com/_en/actu_detail.php?id_actu=59 centre

Short film by by Christophe Duchiron and Julien Johan www.hydroptere.com/_en/galerie-videos-hydroptere.html centre

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