Figaro : les dernières infos Tip & Shaft

The 57th Solitaire du Figaro Paprec comes to a close on Saturday in Le Havre with the prize-giving ceremony, crowning Nicolas Lunven, only the seventh sailor in history to claim a third overall victory. To look back on this edition, Sailorz brought together three other three-time winners, Jérémie Beyou, Yann Eliès and Armel Le Cléac’h, along with the 2021 and 2025 champions, Pierre Quiroga and Alexis Loison.

Long, mentally draining and intensely tactical, the second stage of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec was won by rookie sailor Paul Loiseau, just ahead of Nicolas Lunven. After a fierce battle, Alexis Thomas took third place. In the overall standings, Tom Dolan, 5th in Pornichet, retains the lead. Analysis of this “infernal stage” with three Figaro experts: skippers Yoann Richomme and Jules Ducelier, alongside weather router Dominic Vittet.

The opening leg of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec was won by Tom Dolan, ahead of Loïs Berrehar and Paul Morvan. Sailorz looks back at the race with three Figaro specialists: skippers Gildas Mahé and Gaston Morvan, along with Port-la-Forêt Finistère training centre coach Erwan Tabarly.

36 skippers will line up in Perros-Guirec on Sunday for the start of the 57th edition of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, featuring three legs taking the fleet to Vigo, Pornichet and Le Havre. As before every major race, Sailorz asked a panel of experts to assess the contenders this year, including defending champion and 2025 runner-up Alexis Loison and Charlotte Yven, 2023 winner Corentin Horeau, Jules Delpech, with five Solitaire appearances under his belt, and Romen Richard, coach at the Centre Excellence Voile de La Rochelle.

Seven years after his eighth and most recent appearance, which ended in victory at the first-ever Figaro 3 edition, Yoann Richomme is back on the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec (which he also won in 2016), starting on 17 May from Perros-Guirec. An edition he approaches with a mix of doubts and motivation.

A crossing of the English Channel in an Optimist at 12, an European 29er title at 16, a debut in the Figaro class at 17 and a first circuit victory to mark his 18th birthday, Tom Goron is proving to be a phenomenon of precocity in the world of competitive sailing. Between the Spi Ouest-France, which he won aboard PRB, and the Trophée BPGO he will race again with Nicolas Lunven (start on 18 April), Sailorz took a closer look at his profile.

Back on the Figaro Beneteau circuit this year while waiting for the launch of his future Imoca in just over a year’s time, Loïs Berrehar stood out at the Solo Guy Cotten, the first race of the season, by winning the 240-mile offshore race on Thursday evening. Fifth overall in an event won by Paul Morvan, the Banque Populaire skipper (32) looks back on the race and discusses his Imoca project.

It is the Solo Guy Cotten that, from March 6 to 14, will kick off the new season of the Figaro Beneteau circuit, marked by a reshuffled calendar, with a springtime Solitaire, but also the return of former heavyweights of the circuit, coming back to test themselves against the younger generation. 

A partner of Arnaud Boissières in the Imoca class since 2015, La Mie Câline, a Vendée-based franchise network (€200 million in turnover, 235 stores nationwide, employing approximately 2,500 people), has announced “the end of this chapter”. Its CEO, David Giraudeau, explains the move to Sailorz.

The 56th edition of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec was won on Thursday night by Alexis Loison (Groupe Réel), who achieved a near grand slam, ahead of Charlotte Yven (Skipper Macif 2023) and Arno Biston (Article.1). Sailorz debriefs this Solitaire with two former winners, Pierre Quiroga (2021) and Corentin Horeau (2023), Loïs Berrehar (3rd in 2023 and 2nd in 2024), Lorient-based coach Tanguy Leglatin and router Dominic Vittet.

The first stage of the Solitaire du Figaro Paprec ended on Thursday with Alexis Loison (Groupe Réel) taking the win ahead of the two Skipper Macif sailors, Hugo Dhallenne and Charlotte Yven. To debrief on these 638 miles between Rouen and Morlaix Bay, Tip & Shaft was joined by Erwan Tabarly, coach at the Finistère centre in Port-la-Forêt, router Dominic Vittet, Basile Bourgnon and Gaston Morvan, each of whom has a podium finish in the Solitaire to their credit (2nd in 2023 and 3rd in 2024 respectively).