Eric Tabarly and Gérard Petipas, both highly respected in the sailing industry, founded Pen Duick in 1973. The initial aim of the company was to manage the legendary boats belonging to Eric. Then in 1985 when Pierre Bojic joined them, Pen Duick turned its hand to creating and managing ocean races.
Pen Duick has perfected the art in managing yacht races and its portfolio includes many of the best-known ones : La Route Du Rhum, The Transat Jacques Vabre, The Solitaire du Figaro – Eric Bompard Cachemire, The AG2R Transat, The BPE Trophy from Belle-Ile-en-Mer to Marie-Galante, The Challenge Mondial Assistance, The Course de l’Europe, The Lorient-Bermuda-Lorient Transat ...
Pen Duick still respects the tone and values that Michel Etevenon had in mind when he first created the Route Du Rhum in 1978.
The success of the Route Du Rhum with 87 entries and more than two million visitors in Saint Malo, is the driving force for going one better still in the 10th edition of the race.
Seen as a sporting reference on sea, the Tour de France à la Voile, major event of the nautical calendar will welcome this year prestigious sailors such as; Franck Cammas, winner of the last Volvo Ocean race. The enrolled crews (around twenty of whom half is international) will compete on the same boat, the M34: thus, the difference is not created by the boats, but by the sailors, on a race where offshore stages alternate with spectacular inshore stages all July long. .
The large Animations Village free for all will be open during 26 days in the 11 stopover with multiple educational, fun, and cultural animations (sails climbing, nautical jousts, initiations, concerts, 3D regattas on giant screen, pedal boats, expos, sporting challenges…), of games and gifts for all!
Course 2013 :
- Dunkerque : from june 28 to 30
- Breskens (Pays-Bas) : 1/2 july
- Dieppe : from july 4 to 6
- Deauville : 7/8 july
- Brest : 11/12 july
- Lorient : 13/14 july
- Saint Gilles Croix de Vie : from july 15 to 17
- Roses (Espagne) : 19/20 july
- Gruissan : 22/23 july
- La Seyne-sur-Mer : 24/25 july
- Marseille : from july 26 to 28
Skippers partnership
Corentin Horeau, skipper of Figaro Espoir Région Bretagne- Crédit Mutuel
Institutional partnership
Centre d'entraînement Méditerranée (mediterranean training center)
Created since 2003, the CEM has become today the reference training center in Mediterranean for high level offshore racing training, open to professionals and amateurs. Recognized by the French sailing federation, it has been labeled at the end of 2009, Regional Excellence center.
The CEM is a preparing and training structure for offshore racing professionals sailing one handed, two handed crew handed.
Equipe de France de Voile (French Sailing team for Olympics)
The ADRENA products will help the technical staff and the coach to:
- Create weather data files (wind, current…) with very high resolution by replaying the recorded data thanks to the “replay” function included in the Adrena software,
- Create speed polars of the various Olympic series thanks to the Optima software.
This work is going to enable the calculation of micro-routings on the Olympic courses and then define the settings acting upon the route regarding the conditions encountered.It will give the French sailing Team a true tool for tactical and weather decision making for the London 2012 Olympic Games where the target is ambitious : 6 medals are expected, twice more than in Pekin!
Pôle "Finistère Course au Large"
Le Pôle "Finistère Course au Large" has for mission to train and follow the high level sportsmen racing offshore mainly on IMOCA and Figaro Beneteau II.
Pôle Vendée France
Created by the Vendée region and the French sailing federation, the pole Vendée France works for detection and training of offshore sailors.
Tanguy Leglatin
32 years, offshore racing coach since 5 years::
Imoca : Sam Davies and Dee Cafari Vendée Globe 2008-2009, Class40 : Thomas Ruyant, Yvan Noblet, Sam Manuard, Route du Rhum 2010, Figaro : Isabelle Joschke, Adrien Hardyand others,Minis : prototypes : Sébastien Rogues, Bertrand Delesne, Guillaume Le Brec, Thomas Normand,and others. Série : Amaury François, Davy Beaudart and others.
Miscellaneous partnership
The new First 30 is melting is the same boat the best of naval architecture, with additional comfort.
Designed by Juan Kouyoumdjian, telantuous architect issued for America cup and Volvo ocean race and Michel Desjoyeaux, technical consultant, sailor with unique palmares and skipper of IMOCA Foncia, the First 30 is stongly coming back thirty years after its brother.
The First 30 Beneteau team asked Adrena its help to create the First 30 tuning guide in collaboration with North Sails. Adrena immediately agreed to invest into this new approach: delivering a boat with its tuning guide.
