One version will be an aluminum trimaran built by Australian shipbuilder Austal at Mobile, Alabama.

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Mr Tetley nursed his unsuitable trimaran almost all the way home, until she sank in the Atlantic.

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The 2001 Vendee Globe winner, onboard the 60ft trimaran Geant, sailed the 2, 800 miles at an average of 13.61 knots.

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At that point Ellison began building a 90-foot trimaran, nicknamed "DoGZilla" because it complies with the default rules in the Deed of Gift.

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Then the trimaran will enter the MOD70 European Tour, a competition around Europe with stopovers in Kiel (Germany), Dublin (Ireland), Cascais (Portugal), Marseille (France) and Genoa (Italy).

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Gautier will rediscover his trimaran Foncia after modification work to improve the layout of the deck, which should make manoeuvres much easier to perform for the crew on board.

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The court fight "is so Larry Ellison can race his decamillion-dollar trimaran in a Deed of Gift match that will have absolutely no participation by anybody, " says Barry Ostrager, the Simpson Thatcher lawyer representing Alinghi.

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It wasn't the first accident involving the high-performance catamarans, which were introduced as one of many changes to make the stodgy old sport of sailing more appealing to mainstream sports fans after Oracle Team USA, owned by software tycoon Larry Ellison, won the Cup in 2010 with a giant trimaran.

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The trimaran Race for Water will participate in several race events this year, starting with the Krys Ocean Race, a transatlantic race sailing from New York on 7 July and arriving in Brest around 14 July during the Tonnerres de Brest, a fantastic gathering and parade of tall ships.

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