Banque Populaire V
Banque Populaire V in Brest in December 2009
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| Other names | Maxi Spindrift 2 |
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| Designer(s) | VPLP |
| Builder | CDK & JMV |
| Launched | August 2008 |
| Owner(s) | Dona Bertarelli Spindrift Racing |
| Racing career | |
| Skippers |
Pascal Bidégorry Loïck Peyron (2011–2013) Yann Guichard (2013–) |
| Specifications | |
| Displacement | 23 t (23 long tons; 25 short tons) |
| Length | 40 m (130 ft) (LOA) |
| Beam | 23 m (75 ft) |
| Draft | 5.80 m (19.0 ft) |
| Sail area | 720 m2 (7,800 sq ft) |
Banque Populaire V is an offshore-racing trimaran and Team Banque Populaire's fifth boat designed to set oceanic records. She was launched on 4 October 2008 in Nantes, France.
With her 40 m (130 ft) length, she is currently the largest racing trimaran in the world. Her current skipper is Yann Guichard. Her previous skippers are Loick Peyron and Pascal Bidégorry. Her original sponsor was the French bank Banque Populaire. Currently she is owned by Dona Bertarelli & Spindrift Racing and sponsored by Mirabaud Group, Zenith and Genes-X.
The architectural project for Banque Populaire V started in 2006. The architects VPLP (Van Peteghem / Lauriot-Prévost) designed this G-Class maxi multihull. The trimaran was built by the shipyard CDK Technologies in Lorient.
She was launched at the end of August 2008 in Lorient.
In 2009 she made her first attempt across the northern Atlantic from west to east. On Sunday 2 August 2009, she established the new record in 3 days, 15 hours, 25 minutes and 48 seconds (an average speed of 32.94 knots), beating the previous record, held by Franck Cammas on Groupama 3, by more than 12 hours. During the attempt she also broke the 24-hour distance twice, first with 880, then, several hours later, with 907 nautical miles (1,680 km).
In 2010 the boat was stationed in Brest, awaiting a weather opening to beat the Jules Verne Trophy record (circumnavigation of the world), held since 2010 by Franck Cammas and the multihull Groupama 3. The first such attempt started on January 22, 2011, but she hit some debris in the Southern Atlantic and was forced to retire on February 4.
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