Oceanic one-design for a new race : the Solo-Oceane


Sailing One headed by Yvan Griboval, is developing a concept of offshore races for 52' one-design.

introduced on June 16th, 2006 at the French Sail Fédération (FFV),with Jean Pierre Champion (president), Jean Marie Finot and Michel Desjoyaux attending, this race is the first equal opportunity, single handed round the world race.


It allows to give value to seamanship qualities of the sailers by minimizing the difference between boats.

photo J.M. Liot/Sailing One

The monohulls are strictly identical : sails, weight, hull, equipment, preparation

For this race we designed a carbon-nomex 52' boat out of carbon similar to the 60' monohulls for the Vendée Globe

- canting keel
- twin daggerboards
- The front foresails is moderately-sized on a fractional rig in order to decrease the number of jibs, sails changes and intervnetions in the bow.
- A long bowsprit carries a gennaker or an asymmetrical spinnaker with a quite short and tilted luff, so the boat digs in less downwind.
photo J.M. Liot/Sailing One


Hull, construction, sail plan, deck fittings, are designed to give an exciting and safe boat.
Fun and safety were paramount in the design of this boat.

We obtain the involvement of Michel Desjoyaux, Hervé Laurent, Jean Le Cam and others to help us, high lighting the important points and the most usable and judicious solutions.

This is how we work on all our project : we establish a permanent exchange between the ship-owner, the skipper, the builder, the person in charge of logistic, the sailmaker, the architect.

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