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Innovation Explorer

Gitana 13 in 2010.
Other names	Innovation Explorer Orange Kingfisher 2 Swift
Designer(s)	Gilles Ollier
Builder	Multiplast
Launched	2000
Racing career
Skippers	Loïck Peyron Bruno Peyron Ellen MacArthur Lionel Lemonchois
Specifications
Displacement	20 t (20 long tons; 22 short tons)
Length	33.50 m (109.9 ft) (LOA)
Beam	17.50 m (57.4 ft)
Mast height	39 m (128 ft)
Sail area	610 m2 (6,600 sq ft) (upwind) 800 m2 (8,600 sq ft) (downwind)
Crew	10–12

The boat was initially launched "Code Zero" as its owners searched for sponsorship. It was soon renamed Innovation Explorer and is an ocean-racing catamaran. It was built for The Race, a no-limits non-stop crewed circumnavigation in which she took second place.

The boat has two sister ships developed at the same time for Club Med and Team Adventure.^[1]

She has had several owners and several names, including:^[2][3]

The boat was skippered by Loïck Peyron and Skip Novak in The Race coming 2nd in a time of 64d 22h 32m 38s.

The boat was brought by Bruno Peyron in 2002 where she broke the Around the world sailing record and the Jules Verne Trophy. (Not to be confused with Orange II (boat) which broke the record in 2005)

Skippered by Ellen MacArthur in 2003. Whilst competing for the Jules Verne Trophy, she broke her mast near the south-east Kerguelen Islands,

With skipper Lionel Lemonchois

• As Orange, she won the Jules Verne Trophy (Around the world sailing record) in 64 days, 8 hours, 37 minutes and 24 seconds, in 2002.^[4]
• As Gitana 13, she set the transpacific record between San Francisco and Yokohama in 43 days, 3 minutes and 18 seconds, in 2008.^[5]
• Record from New York to San Francisco via Cape Horn, 2008 Feb, 43d 3m 18s ^[5]