[SAFRAN] After a three-month winter refit and upgrade, the SAFRAN Open 60 monohull racing boat will be relaunched on Wednesday, March 26 at La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany. Several races are on the agenda this season, with the main target being the Vendée Globe 2008 round-the-world solo race.
The SAFRAN racing boat was revamped this winter under the direction of skipper Marc Guillemot and the Safran Sailing Team. Although the new monohull boat has already proven to be a fierce contender (finishing second in the Transat Jacques Vabre and fifth in the Transat Ecover B to B), it still needed some refurbishment and fine-tuning. “We completely repainted the boat,” notes Marc Guillemot, “then addressed a few issues concerning protection, comfort, maneuvering, steering, ballast handling, etc.” Read more...
The SAFRAN racing boat was revamped this winter under the direction of skipper Marc Guillemot and the Safran Sailing Team. Although the new monohull boat has already proven to be a fierce contender (finishing second in the Transat Jacques Vabre and fifth in the Transat Ecover B to B), it still needed some refurbishment and fine-tuning. “We completely repainted the boat,” notes Marc Guillemot, “then addressed a few issues concerning protection, comfort, maneuvering, steering, ballast handling, etc.” Read more...
