Ferry / Passenger Ship Scandola at the Chantier Naval de Marseille.
Category In the Shed
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Mar 15
Mar 15
Trimaran Lending Club
Lorient, Morbihan, Brittany, France 47º43’46″N 03º22'19″W
Maxi Trimaran Lending Club ex Banque Populaire VII with her new color at the Cité de la voile Éric Tabarly.
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Jul 14
Jul 14
Lorima Carbon Mast Factory
Lorient, Keroman Submarine Base, Brittany, France 47º43’48″N 03º22'12″W
At work! Technical photo shoot at Lorima Carbon Mast! From World Class Superyachts to High Performance Racing Yachts, Lorima leads the way and innovates in today s construction of Carbon fiber masts and spars..Lorima masts are carbon fiber One Shot tubes, built in female tools in a 38 m long autoclave.
Photo assignment for Lorima Carbon Mast.
Video : http://vimeo.com/106676618
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Jul 14
Jul 14
Marsaudon Composites
Lorient, Keroman Submarine Base, Brittany, France 47º43’46″N 03º22'14″W
Marsaudon Composites capitalising on their expertise in composite boat building from high-tech racing yachts to custom designed super-maxis and cruise racers. Marsaudon Composites is an internationally renowned boatbuilding company.
Photo assignment for Marsaudon Composites.
Video: http://vimeo.com/106676618
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Jan 13
Jan 13
2013
Global
Thank you to every one for an incredible run, you rock my world and I sincerely wish you all the happiness and success that life can bring in 2013!
Video: http://bit.ly/1BRXZsI
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Apr 12
Apr 12
Hydroptère
La Ciotat, Bouches-du-Rhône, France 43º10’09″N 5º36’26″E
Enjoy these photos from our visit to the legendary Hydroptère trimaran at her home in La Ciotat to have a look at her stylish & apropos ‘flying fish’ livery which began application on the main hulls over the winter season thanks to the creative design process by the agency Dragon Rouge. Always a unique and somewhat ominous experience to photograph a Hot Rod in waiting, you are able to feel the Hydroptère’s energy and capacity for flight even while she is resting on the hard
Within the next few weeks, the Hydroptère team will assemble the boat on the quay outside the H2X shed for an intensive logistical analysis and inspection routine to ready the boat for her inevitable great things to come. L’Hydroptère is to undergo an ambitious schedule, primarily the Transpac passage record attempt from Los Angeles to Honolulu, slated for June of 2012 and currently held by Olivier Kersauson and his crew of Geronimo, set in 2005.
L’Hydroptère is no stranger to speed records and is the proud holder of the outright speed record by a manned vessel at 51.36 knots for 500 meters (2010) and 50.17 knots for 1000 meters (2009). The only speed higher has been by achieved a kitesurfer at 55.65 knots, but we doubt that the men of L’Hydroptère have had their final say in the matter.
A very enthusiastic Alain Thébault, the skipper of the newly decorated flying fish, had this to say:
“I had a dream, I wanted to make a boat fly. In the US, everything is possible. I am impatient to share my flying carpet with American people.”
A magic flying carpet indeed, we look forward to your immediate future visit to the States and the continuation of the successful legacy of L’Hydroptère with an anticipatory ear to the water.
Words: Fred Eagle
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Dec 11
Dec 11
Orange II
Vannes, Brittany, France 47°38'56"N 2°45'39.78"W
Fade to Orange
Orange 2 was a battlewagon of a solution to the Jules Verne problem that turned out to be the right tool for a 50-day job in 2005, but the way the trimarans Groupama 3 and then BP5 shattered just about every record that Bruno Peyron’s big cat took brings up an obvious question: Will we ever see a new record-breaking maxi cat again? This study in geometry comes from earlier this year at the Multiplast yard in Vannes, Brittany.
Words: Alan Block
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Jul 11
Jul 11
Sodebo the Razors Edge
Saint Philibert, Brittany, France 47º34’26″N 3º00’24″W
Another surreal view from the lens of Christophe Launay, this time from the Sodeb’O shed in La Trinité, where the big trimaran is being cleaned up and mothballed until Thomas Coville gets back from his Volvo Ocean Race campaign aboard Franck Cammas’ Team Groupama.
Meanwhile, Francis Joyon, Coville’s nemesis in the record-breaking game, is on standby with IDEC in Brooklyn, NY, readying for his chance to crush Coville’s solo transatlantic record of 5 days, 19 hours, 29 minutes and 20 seconds. For comparison’s sake, Rambler 100, the most powerful and modern of racing monohulls, just had a brilliant crossing last week of 6 days, 22 hours, with about 20 more mouths to feed than Joyon…
Words: Alan Block
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May 11
May 11
CClass Patient Lady VI
Saint Pierre Quiberon, Brittany, France 47º30’62″N 3º07’74″W
Restoration of the 26 year old C Class Catamaran Patient Lady VI under the auspice of Benjamin Muyl, Herve Penformis, Axel de Beaufort and Sam Thomas at the Ecole Nationale de Voile, Saint Pierre Quiberon.
Patient Lady VI was “given” to Benjamin Muy from Fred Eaton for 1 symbolic dollar, it ‘s actually the only C Class in continental Europe (Invictus is in the UK)
