Photo assignment for CNB Yacht Builders – Excess Catamarans.
Category Adventure
Nov 19
Excess 15 Sea Trial
Canet-en-Roussillon, Pyrénées-Orientales, France 42º42’00″N 3º04'22″E
Photo assignment for CNB Yacht Builders – Excess Catamarans.
Sep 19
Onboard the IMOCA 60 Groupe Apicil
Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France 47º29’02″N 05º17'02″W
Onboard the IMOCA 60 Groupe Apicil, skippers: Damien Seguin and Yoann Richomme during the 48 hours race Defi Azimut.
The Défi Azimut is an atypical event in the offshore race world. It’s the meeting between the IMOCA class which gathers together the skippers of the Vendée Globe and the Lorient-based company Azimut. It also aims to combine performance, innovation and strategy. It combines the best level of sailing competition with a lot of friendliness.
With just over a month to go to the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre, the event was a test for many of the boats, whether they were old or new, foilers or not. There was a lot to see at every level and the weather conditions were ideal.
Out of the twenty boats ranked at the finish, there were 12 foilers and 8 non-foilers, three of which made it to the top ten.
Rankings for the 48-hour race
1. Charal (Beyou-Pratt): 1d 18h 43 mins 46s (foils)
2. PRB (Escoffier-Lunven): 1d 20h 08 mins 52s (foils)
3. 11th Hour (Enright-Bidegorry): 1d 20h 45 mins 47s (foils)
4. Maitre CoQ IV (Bestaven-Jourdain): 1d 21h 19 mins 08s (foils)
5. Groupe Apicil (Seguin-Richomme): 1d 22h 11 mins 26s (daggerboards)
6. Banque Populaire X (Cremer-Le Cleac’h): 1d 22h 16 mins 51s (daggerboards)
7. Initiatives Cœur (Davies-Meilhat): 1d 22h 18 mins 31s (foils)
8. MACSF (Joschke-Lagraviere): 1d 23h 42 mins 27s (foils)
9. V&B Mayenne (Sorel-Le Brec): 2d 00h 14 mins 48s (daggerboards)
10. Bureau Vallee 2 (Burton-Beaudart): 2d 00h 20 mins 54s (foils)
Photo assignment for the Groupe APICIL
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May 19
Bordeaux
Bordeaux, Gironde, France 44º50’29″N 0º34'08″W
Stroll the most graceful streets in France, eat well, drink better and then have the liveliest possible time in a city lately in touch with its Latin side. .
The centre had a grandiose 18th-century harmony unmatched in Europe. It seemed quite possible that the French Revolution never made it this far. Poor people looked rich and rich people didn’t look at all. But the city felt haughty and aloof. It had also grown shabby round the edges. No longer. Bordeaux has had the renovators in with a vengeance – restoring noble façades, installing trams and reclaiming from dereliction the vast swathe of riverbank. There are few more graceful urban sights in France than the miroir-d’eau reflecting the splendid Palais-de-la-Bourse.
Mar 19
Loïck Peyron & Amélie Grassi
Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France 47º40’30″N 03º23'45″W
Training Session with Loïck Peyron and Amélie Grassi onboard a Figaro Beneteau 3, preparing for the Sardinha Cup and for La Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro.
Photo assignment for Loïck Peyron.
Mar 19
LOÏCK PEYRON & ACTION ENFANCE – FIGARO BENETEAU 3
Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France 47º39’54″N 03º29'33″W
Training Session with Loïck Peyron onboard a Figaro Beneteau 3 Action Enfance.
The Figaro Beneteau 3 is the first production foiling one-design monohull ever to be designed. A distillation of technology and innovation, it results from a collaboration between group Beneteau’s best experts and the Van Peteghem Lauriot-Prévost (VPLP) office.
Photo assignment for Loïck Peyron.