06/2007 – FIRST 45: MORE FIRST THAN EVER! Given the enthusiastic reception received by the First 50 from customers and the international yachting press (voted Yacht of the Year in Norway, Slovenia, the USA and Italy), there’s every reason to suppose that an equally warm welcome awaits the Philippe Briand-designed First 45 when it is […]
Continue Reading ...02/2006 – Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show creates Australian first The highly-successful Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show will offer the largest on water leisure and light commercial display ever staged in Australia at this year’s May 2006 event. Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show general manager Barry Jenkins announced expanded marina and hardstand displays would create […]
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Rather than a long portrait, here are: The Fables of Jean Le Cam Jean Le Cam – a dangerous competitor. A sailor with the vast and successful experiment. 46 years – Married two children. Triple victorious of the Figaro Second of the last Vendée Globe. Two titles which summarise the innumerable intermediate podiums. The public […]
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Alain Adès is a happy man! One can understand it, at 43 years, he carries out a dream: living of his passion. “Fallen very small” in the large pot of the shipyards, he creates SUD COMPOSITES in 1990. The production of the shipyard concentrates then, during approximately 8 years, on the building of “Grand Sud” […]
Continue Reading ...12/2005 – Speed and prestige With “parents” like Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prevost, the Switch 55 has an unbeatable pedigree. These designers are responsible for Géant, Gitana 11 and Groupama 2, three of the multi-hulls competing in the IB Group Challenge, as well Olivier de Kersauzon’s trimaran Géronimo. Above deck: beauty and functionality The […]
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Pershing 115 ‘, drawn by the architect Fulvio de Simoni, illustrates the will of the Pershing shipyard to impose its name on the market of prestigious boats. It is the first yacht propelled by hydrojets associated with two MTU 16V4000 engines (of 3700 HP each). Moreover, a TF 50 turbine, creating a booster rocket effect, […]
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