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.
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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
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
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
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)
Bucking his preference for being in the thick of the action, Christophe Launay finally gets up in a chopper like the lazy photogs and shows why his is one of the very best. This shot from the incredible nearly 500 boat fleet at the Tour De Belle-Ile. The 77-foot maxi tri Gitana 11 broke the record in 2 hours and 42 minutes with Seb Josse at the helm, but nearly was overtaken at the end by Lionel Lemanchois on the super-fast Irens Multi 50 trimaran Prince De Bretagne.
Words: Alan Block
Maxi Banque Populaire V designed by VPLP and built by CDK at the Cité de la Voile Éric Tabarly in Lorient, Brittany, France.
