OPERON RACING
Former Names: Globe, Bagages Superior, Cafe Legal, Exide Challenger, Cafe Legal, Le Harve 2000, Euroka - Un Univers De Service, Un Univers De Service, UUDS - Republique Dominicaine
Architect: Finot
Year built & boat yard: CDK 1991
Year launched: 1991
Length: 18.28m
Beam: 5.8m
Draught: 3.96m
Displacement (weight): 10.95 tonnes
Mast height: 25m
Rigging: carbon
Keel blade: canting
Upwind sail surface: 221m2
Downwind sail surface: 460m2
Previous Results:
- 1st Vendée Globe 1992/3
- 2nd Transat Jacques Vabre 1993
- 4th Vendée Globe 1996/7
- DNF Transat Jacques Vabre 1997
- DNF Vendée Globe 2000/1
- 9th Transat Jacques Vabre 2001