Competitive Sailing Sailing Café #2: Ergonomics and safety in offshore racing July 1 2024July 9 2024 For its second Sailing Café of the year, Bretagne Développement Innovation chose to discuss ergonomics and onboard safety in ocean racing. The focus was on Imoca boats, with Romain Attanasio, skipper of Fortinet Best Western, Matthieu Vincent, member of the Initiatives Cœur design office, and Ulysse David, who is part of the MerConcept design office for the Imoca Macif Santé Prévoyance. Continue Reading
Competitive Sailing America’s Cup, “Building the AC75 was a catalyst for skills”. July 1 2024July 9 2024 Construction of the AC75 for the French challenge Orient Express Racing Team was completed at Multiplast at the end of March, after ten months of intense work. How did the yard manage this major project? What were the major challenges? Answers from Samuel Napoleoni, Cup project manager at Multiplast. Continue Reading
Competitive Sailing What’s new in Sailing Valley Companies? March 28 2024July 9 2024 Find in this article brief information about companies in the Sailing Valley with links in French for further details. Continue Reading
Competitive Sailing Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest: what resources have been deployed to guarantee safety? March 11 2024November 4 2024 Between coordination, pathologies, unseaworthy zones and UFO detection, the theme of safety during the Arkea Ultim Challenge was explored by Guillaume Rottee, race director, Renaud Bañuls, founder of Share The Ocean, Laure Jacolot, race doctor, and Fredéric Renaudeau, president of the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique. Continue Reading
Competitive Sailing Arkea Ultim Challenge – Brest: how did the teams prepare for this first round-the-world voyage in an Ultim? March 6 2024November 4 2024 Guillaume, 03/06/2024 – Replays on the link below are in French How long before the start did the teams switch to solo round-the-world mode? How did they organize themselves before and during the race, so that the skippers could tackle this first round-the-world race in the Ultim class? SVR-Lazartigue’s Antoine… Continue Reading
Competitive Sailing Ultim Adagio: logbook of the race’s old sea dog February 5 2024November 4 2024 Skippered by Eric Péron, Adagio is the oldest of the six boats that set sail from Brest for the Arkea Ultim Challenge, the first round-the-world race dedicated to Ultims. With Xavier Guilbaud, naval architect at VPLP Design, who designed her, we retraced the history of this ship, which bears witness to the evolution of trimarans and their adaptation to today’s technological standards. Continue Reading