Multi50 : les dernières infos Tip & Shaft

With one month to go before the start of the Transat Café L’Or, which he will be competing in for the second time in a row with Audrey Ogereau, Erwan Le Roux is taking part this week in Lorient in the 24h Ultim, the fourth edition of which welcomes 4 Ultims and 10 Ocean Fiftys – the race starts on Saturday morning. This is an opportunity to talk to the skipper of Koesio, who is also heavily involved in the offshore racing centre project in La Rochelle, where he moved in 2024.

15th in the last Vendée Globe, Damien Seguin officially presented his Ocean Fifty project this Friday in La Trinité-sur-Mer, for which he is seeking partners. For Tip & Shaft, the 45-year-old skipper looks back on his round-the-world voyage and tells us more about the new chapter he wants to open.

After a very busy 2024 season, the Ocean Fifty class is tightening up its calendar this year with two Grand Prix (Saint-Malo and Concarneau), the Fastnet and the Transat Café L’Or. The line-up has also changed, with a new association of skippers, a new boat and several new entrants.  

At 13:00 on Sunday 29th September, 9 Ocean Fifties and 16 Class40s set sail in the first edition of the Med Max a double-handed race between Port Camargue and Saïdia Resorts in Morocco. Tip & Shaft takes a look back at the genesis of this project initiated by Kito de Pavant.   

The seven female sailors involved in the UpWind By MerConcept project have just been selected following four days of testing and sailing in Concarneau. Focus on this Ocean Fifty project supported by 11th Hour Racing and skippered by Francesca Clapcich.

After the Mini 6.50, the Figaro (a project still underway this season) and the Class40, Edenred announced this week its commitment into the Ocean Fifty circuit from the 2025 season onwards, with a new boat to be built by Neo Sailing Technologies (formerly Lalou Multi). The skippers will be Emmanuel Le Roch and Basile Bourgnon, Tip & Shaft spoke to the latter.

The Ocean Fifty Class has unveiled the 2024 calendar for the Ocean Fifty Series, the successor to the Pro Sailing Tour, along with the creation of a commercial subsidiary and the announcement of an eleventh ongoing project. Ten boats will be entered in the five new races this season.

After taking second place aboard Malizia of the fourth leg of The Ocean Race on Wednesday evening into Newport Rhode Island, Christopher Pratt managed to then make the first stage of the Pro Sailing Tour on Wind of Trust this Friday in La Seyne-sur-Mer of the. The boat was formerly Gilles Lamiré’s and Pratt is the new skipper. Tip & Shaft reached him early Friday morning during his connection at Paris CDG airport in between his flights from the United States and to Marseille. The sailor from Marseille took the time to talk about his busy times.