{"id":67900,"date":"2025-05-13T07:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tipandshaft.com\/?p=67900"},"modified":"2025-05-12T17:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:43:57","slug":"the-imoca-class-in-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sailorz.com\/en\/imoca-en\/the-imoca-class-in-transition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Imoca class in transition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0prize-giving ceremony for the Vend\u00e9e Globe 2024-2025<\/strong>\u00a0takes place this Saturday 10 May in Les Sables-d’Olonne. It’s an opportunity for Tip & Shaft to take a snapshot of the various projects to date and\u00a0the new cycle that is beginning for the Imoca class<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

“We’re in a period of transition.”<\/em>\u00a0In one sentence,\u00a0Antoine Mermod<\/strong>\u00a0sums up the general context prevailing in this spring of 2025 for the Imoca boats.\u00a0“It has not escaped anyone’s attention that the global economic situation is not easy,”<\/em>\u00a0continues the class president.\u00a0This generates a fair amount of uncertainty and complicates the work of the skippers and the teams in their search for partners. For a while, we feared that the situation would be very complicated, but in the end, it’s not that bad.\u00a0It’s not euphoria, but it’s not a catastrophe either<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The first indicator is\u00a0the number of new boats planned<\/strong>\u00a0for the new 2025-2029 cycle, of which there are\u00a0nine to date<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00c9lodie Bonafous<\/strong>‘ boat (sistership to Macif Sant\u00e9 Pr\u00e9voyance) was launched last February, and will be followed in June by\u00a0Armel Tripon<\/strong>‘s VPLP design, Les Ptits Doudous. Three Koch designs have been ordered from CDK, in the same moulds, which should be ready in 2026 for\u00a0Thomas Ruyant<\/strong>\u00a0(who is looking for partners) and\u00a0Boris Herrmann<\/strong>, and in the first quarter of 2027 for\u00a0Lo\u00efs Berrehar<\/strong>, the new skipper of Banque Populaire.<\/p>\n

As for Multiplast,\u00a0Kojiro Shiraishi<\/strong>‘s future DMG Mori (Verdier design) is currently under construction, while, although the announcement has not yet been made official,\u00a0Yoann Richomme<\/strong>\u00a0has placed an order for a Koch design – albeit not in the same moulds as the previous three. A slot has also been reserved for\u00a0Sam Goodchild<\/strong>, who is however awaiting the green light from his sponsor, Leyton, who has already worked alongside him in Ocean Fifty and then on his first Imoca project (with Advens). Finally,\u00a0S\u00e9bastien Simon<\/strong>\u00a0has just confirmed\u00a0the construction of a Verdier design<\/a>, entrusted to the Carrington Boats yard in Southampton, for a launch scheduled for May 2026.<\/p>\n

“Sailors have time”<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Will other new boats follow? That’s certainly the intention of\u00a0Franck Cammas<\/strong>, who is looking for partners with a view to taking on The Ocean Race in 2027 and the Vend\u00e9e Globe in 2028, while\u00a0Louis Burton<\/strong>, who was initially thinking of launching a new Manuard design, is no longer considering this option for the time being,\u00a0“in the middle of a phase of reflection and discussion with Bureau Vall\u00e9e”<\/em>.\u00a0Charlie Dalin<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Beyou<\/strong>, who are keeping their respective Imoca boats,\u00a0Macif Sant\u00e9 Pr\u00e9voyance<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Charal 2<\/em>, until the Route du Rhum 2026, have not yet revealed their intentions for the future.<\/p>\n

“The sailors have time ahead of them to launch projects, and a lot can still happen,”<\/em>\u00a0says Antoine Mermod, who is highlighting\u00a0a new qualification and selection system<\/a>. The new system gives greater importance to sporting results, but it has drawn criticism from\u00a0Jean Le Cam<\/strong>\u00a0– who has made it clear that he has no plans to race in 2025 and is wondering what will happen next – who believes that it encourages\u00a0“elitist projects”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All the sailors aiming for performance, whether in The Ocean Race or the Vend\u00e9e Globe, do not necessarily want to build, like\u00a0Paul Meilhat<\/strong>, who recently confided in our Pos. Report podcast:\u00a0“We asked ourselves the question last year, but\u00a0we decided to keep the current boat<\/strong>\u00a0(Biotherm) for several reasons. Firstly economic and environmental – we have to be consistent with what we say, and I’ve always advocated a more virtuous sport – then because making a foiler reliable takes a huge amount of time. Now, The Ocean Race is a year and a half away, so if we want to remain effective, we have to continue with this Imoca.”<\/em><\/p>\n

A quiet second-hand market<\/span><\/h2>\n

What about the second-hand market? For the moment, it seems to be very quiet, with\u00a030 boats for sale<\/a>\u00a0on the Imoca website, which doesn’t surprise Antoine Mermod:\u00a0“We’re in the usual proportions,”<\/em>\u00a0he assures us.\u00a0In the 2024 Vend\u00e9e Globe, only 5 of the 33 skippers entered in 2020 left with the same boat.\u00a0Things are moving<\/strong>, discussions are underway and not everything is immediately made public.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Nevertheless,\u00a0several deals have been made official<\/strong>\u00a0in recent weeks: backed by Mapei,\u00a0Ambrogio Beccaria<\/strong>\u00a0will take possession<\/a>\u00a0of Thomas Ruyant’s\u00a0Vulnerable<\/em>\u00a0in July, while\u00a0Francesca Clapcich<\/strong>\u00a0will do the same<\/a>\u00a0next autumn with Boris Herrmann’s\u00a0Malizia-Seaexplorer<\/em>, while Canada Ocean Racing,\u00a0Scott Shawyer<\/strong>‘s team, announced on 7 May that\u00a0it was buying S\u00e9bastien Simon’s Groupe Dubreuil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to our information, other sales have taken place or are in progress, such as the sale at the end of the year of\u00a0Paprec Ark\u00e9a to MACSF<\/strong>, which has still not revealed the name of the skipper who will succeed Isabelle Joschke – Corentin Horeau is strongly tipped to do so. In Les Sables d’Olonne, a number of deals are about to be struck between sailors who have already decided to embark on a new campaign:\u00a0Manu Cousin<\/strong>\u00a0has his sights set on Arnaud Boissi\u00e8res’\u00a0La Mie C\u00e2line<\/em>, this latter on Benjamin Dutreux’s VPLP design. When contacted by Tip & Shaft, the interested parties declined to confirm.<\/p>\n

An unfavourable context<\/span><\/h2>\n

Is the relative calm of the second-hand market worrying skippers?\u00a0Interviewed last week by Tip & Shaft<\/a>,\u00a0Louis Duc<\/strong>, who is looking to set sail again in 2028 on a second-hand Imoca with better performance, confided:\u00a0“There’s less enthusiasm than four years ago. Now, there are still a lot of skippers looking to line up at the start in 2028, but I think it’s going to shift a bit and pick up again\u00a0around the time of the Route du Rhum<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In the last episode of our Into The Wind podcast,\u00a0S\u00e9bastien Marsset<\/strong>, who is also looking for a more ambitious project for 2028, had this to say:\u00a0“The market is fairly quiet because the economic context is causing a certain amount of nervousness. And also because\u00a0the deadlines aren’t there yet<\/strong>. Will the close of entries for the Transat Caf\u00e9 L’Or on 30 June encourage people to take the plunge? Or will we have to wait until 2026 for the Route du Rhum?”<\/em>\u00a0For\u00a0Eric Bellion<\/strong>, who is also keen to do it again,\u00a0“we’re in a period like we’ve always experienced, except during the previous cycle when there was a real euphoria,\u00a0it’s more this 2020\/2024 period that has been an anomaly<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

However, a number of them have confessed their\u00a0difficulties in finding funding<\/strong>, like\u00a0Maxime Sorel<\/strong>, who has a boat and a team, but no budget yet:\u00a0“By announcing the end of my sponsors before the start of the Vend\u00e9e Globe, I was hoping to attract new ones so that I could set off again in 2025, but that’s not the case.\u00a0The next four months will be decisive<\/strong>. If I’m not further ahead in September, I’ll start to commit my business financially and we’ll have to take some drastic measures: stop and sell the boat.”<\/em>\u00a0Similarly,\u00a0Yannick Bestaven<\/strong>, faced with the end of his partnership with Ma\u00eetre CoQ, is proposing a turnkey project – team and boat – but so far without success.<\/p>\n

What about daggerboard boats?<\/span><\/h2>\n

While this is not the case for Tanguy Le Turquais, who has switched to Ocean Fifty, and Damien Seguin, who is also interested in this class, many of the sailors involved in the last Vend\u00e9e Globe have in any case told us that\u00a0they intend to set off again with more ambitious projects<\/strong>. In addition to those already mentioned, this is the case of\u00a0Fabrice Amedeo<\/strong>\u00a0(who has found an initial partner, FDJ United),\u00a0Justine Mettraux<\/strong>,\u00a0Antoine Cornic<\/strong>, who is in discussions with two partners and will have his mind made up by early June,\u00a0Oliver Heer<\/strong>,\u00a0Conrad Colman<\/strong>,\u00a0Giancarlo Pedote<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Romain Attanasio<\/strong>.\u00a0“I’m hesitating whether to keep my current boat with some major modifications or to buy one of the 2020 generation,”<\/em>\u00a0explains the latter.<\/p>\n

“I’ve re-signed with my partner and I can enter the Transat Caf\u00e9 L’Or,”<\/em>\u00a0rejoices Conrad Colman, who, like Oliver Heer, is looking for partners to take part in The Ocean Race with a foiler.\u00a0There are two options on the table<\/strong>: buying a good second-hand Imoca or building a new one. I have several leads with boatyards that have slots available.”\u00a0<\/em>In other words, the first to be served – particularly for the highly sought-after 2020 generation Imoca boats, which sell for between \u20ac2.5 and \u20ac4 million – will be the first to find partners. This also applies to potential new entrants, such as\u00a0Gaston Morvan<\/strong>,\u00a0Beno\u00eet Marie<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Tom Dolan<\/strong>, who are aiming for a good foiler.<\/p>\n

In this context,\u00a0will the daggerboard Imocas, which are all up for sale, find any takers?<\/strong>\u00a0“There are families of boats that correspond to families of projects. For a first Vend\u00e9e Globe with fewer resources, a well-reliable non-foiler is still excellent value for money, so there are bound to be sailors who will turn to this type of project,”<\/em>\u00a0answers Antoine Mermod.\u00a0Nicolas d’Estais<\/strong>\u00a0is one of them:\u00a0“I’d like to take part in the next Vend\u00e9e Globe with a daggerboard Imoca under the colors of Caf\u00e9 Joyeux, but I haven’t yet decided which one,”<\/em>\u00a0confirms the skipper, who has already raised part of his budget.<\/p>\n

Given this transition period,\u00a0how many boats will we see sailing in 2025?<\/strong>\u00a0To date, 12 are registered for the new Course des Caps (start June 29), 6 for The Ocean Race Europe (August 6-September 21):\u00a0Paprec Ark\u00e9a<\/em>,\u00a0Allagrande Mapei<\/em>,\u00a0Canada Ocean Racing<\/strong>,\u00a0Malizia<\/em>,\u00a0Holcim-PRB<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Biotherm<\/em>.\u00a0What about the Transat Caf\u00e9 L’Or<\/strong>, which in 2021, the post-Vend\u00e9e Globe year, attracted 22 duos?\u00a0\u201cWe can hope to reach a similar number,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0assures Antoine Mermod. Although 10 boats have been officially entered to date, Tip & Shaft has counted around 15 sure starters, which means that we can expect around 20 duos, a sign that we’re finally on the same level as four years ago.<\/p>\n

Photo : Vincent Curutchet \/ Alea<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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