This type of sailboat seduces all the profiles of sailors, the amateur enlightened to the experienced professional. Sunday, 45 crews will start from the Transat Jacques Vabre, Le Havre, aboard these 12-meter boats.
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At its debut, in 2004, the Class40 (12-meter monochors) was considered a class reserved for enlightened amateurs, or even semi-professionals of sailing, and was sometimes watched with condescension. Then she had a superb brightness thanks to the victory of Yoann Richomme at the Rum of the Rum 2018.
So that one of the brightest professionals of its generation demonstrated a magical manner that a simple boat, without foils, built in fiberglass – with the exception of the mast, of the boom and the end-carbon butt – Was also a very fast boat, capable of playing for 18 knots, easy to use, at the costs forced and, above all, not requiring a plethoric team to ensure its functioning year.
One year later, in 2019, it’s the duo Ian Lipinski-Adrien Hardy, on Crédit Mutuel, a scow designed by the architect and long runner off David Ray, a boat with rounded bow , who wins the transat Jacques Vabre, desizing with a shot the eyes of the hawning world. This drawing then signs a “technological breakage” that the same reason, in 2011, had already launched by winning the mini-transat on similar lines on its 6.50 meter boat, leaving the observers of the time. Baé.
“Human-sized boats”
While the budgets of the last IMOCA and ultimate are out of reach, the Class40 stands away from a technological and financial outbuilding and is experiencing an acceleration of housing starts for the next rum road since we speak Today 17 new boats for the 2022 edition. Sunday, November 7 at 1:30 pm, they will be 45 Crews from Class40 of the 79 boats from the Fifteenth edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre, Double Transatlantic Race between Le Havre And, for the first time, Fort-de-France, to Martinique.
This light on the Class40 would be explained by the more and more professional profiles of the participants, certainly mixing warned enthusiasts and some experienced owners, but especially runners from Olympic sectors, the race race, the sector. of the loner of Figaro and a few Tour-du-Mondisers as Kito de Pavant (HBF-reforest’action).
“In fact, we find in this class as a fragrance of the high hours of the offshore race, with high-level regulators and types that have several times turned around the globe. All these profiles have made it up considerably. level of performance, but still in a relative budget accessibility, “says Alexis Loison, himself” Figarist “, who will be on this edition Cupippeur of Nicolas Jossier (The Nautical Evidence Channel), just as the Hegemonic Winner of the last edition of Figaro, Pierre Quiroga, aboard Edenred.
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