113 views Photo Uploaded: Feb 25 2008 07:50:18 GMT Taken: 2008:02:25 09:49:48 Manufacturer: SONY Camera: DSC-H5Aperture: F5.6 Shutter: 10/5000 sec ISO: 125 Flash: No (Turned off) This is what remains of the French yacht that set out on an attempt to beat the record for travelling around the world in a sailing vessel.
The $NZ16 million Groupama 3 left the English Channel on January 24 but on Monday 18th February in the Southern Ocean, 150km off Dunedin, New Zealand, while skirting around the rougher patches of the southern seas, one of the yachts hulls snapped, it slit off and the yacht capsized, smashing the mast in three and flipping the yacht over, (report courtesy of The Otago Daily Times),
It was salvaged by the crew and bought to Otago Harbour.
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