Rochelaise Robin Marais has bought, Sablais Manu Cousin's IMOCA (Coup de Pouce in the 2024 Vendee Globe). With his eye to October's Route du Rhum for a first competitive outing.
The boat is a Farr daggerboard design, first launched in 2007, by Jean-Pierre Dick. Racing under Paprec's colours, he was forced to abandon into New Zealand during the 2008 Vendee Globe. After a collision with a UFO (Unidentified Floating Object) left him rudderless.
Robin is a graduate of the Classe Mini 6.50 (see Ad Lib 93 & 94). Cutting his solo offshore teeth on the 2013 Mini transat.
Before placing eighteenth (out of a fleet of fifty seven), aboard Class40 Ma Chance, in the 2018 Route du Rhum.
The budget to campaign a foiling IMOCA, like those on the victory pontoon ahead of him (see Ad Lib 91), is not currently available. But steady, step-wise, progression is a strategy which has, thus far, served Robin well.
Picture Credits
Robin Marais Route du Rhum 2018 courtesy of Christophe Breschi
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