From Force Cash to Extreme 40 Gitana
Tradition isn’t an empty word with the Rothschilds… In the 1990s, Baron Benjamin de Rothschild invested in a Formula 40, a competitive 40 foot catamaran, whose given name will bend the rules of the Gitana tradition slightly, since it will be called Force Cash. It’s aboard this craft, during the numerous years of sailing a catamaran on Lake Geneva, that the owner of Gitana Team was able to discover the pleasures of slipping along in a multihull.
In 2009, the arrival of the new craft – the Extrême 40 – is reminiscent of this Formula 40, which is today dedicated to those learning how to sail amongst collaborators of the Edmond de Rothschild Group.
A 40 foot one design catamaran made entirely of carbon, the Extreme 40’ was born from the collaboration of the Olympic Tornado champion, Yves Loday, and the Tornado Sport company. This boat is highly sensitive to trim and hence offers a particularly interesting platform: it can be fully dismantled, as is the case with its two section mast, and was imagined and built to be transported in a container equal to its length. This allows the craft to be assembled and rigged in a day, but above all, it enables it to be taken to some rather atypical sailing sites.
Extreme 40 Groupe Edmond de Rothschild in figures
- LOA : 12,19 metres (40 foot)
- Beam : 7,92 metres (26 foot)
- Weight : 1 250 kg
- Mast height : 18, 89 metres (62 foot)
- Mainsail surface : 75m2
- Jib : 25 m2
- Gennaker : 78 m2
- Crew : 4 persons + one guest referred to as the 5th man during races.