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The Transat CIC : How OC Sport Pen Duick and the CIC have re-committed until 2032 – sponsored article

11 September 2025

On 30 August, CIC and OC Sport Pen Duick announced the extension of their partnership for The Transat CIC, with the banking group, which had committed to being the title partner for the 2020 (ultimately cancelled due to Covid) and 2024 editions, also doing so for 2028 and 2032. “We were very satisfied with the last edition, which met our expectations both from a sporting and a popular point of view, with a particularly enthusiastic turnout at the start in Lorient,” explains Daniel Baal, President of CIC.

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PYL was a journalist at L’Express for 15 years, where he covered not only sailing but also wrote on politics and economics until July 2015. He has been the author of the blog Au Large for a decade.

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He co-founded Tip & Shaft with Axel Capron in November 2015.

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editor-in-chief & cofounder

Starting out as a sports journalist at Teléstar, Axel joined the editorial staff of Sports.fr to cover sailing among other sports, before rising to the role of chief editor.

He was then appointed Newsweb’s sports news editor (Lagardère Active Media Group) until March 2015.

He co-founded Tip & Shaft with Pierre-Yves Lautrou in November 2015.

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Violette joined Tip & Shaft in 2021 as an intern at the end of her Bachelor’s degree, and after two years of work-study, she obtained her Master’s degree from L’Inseec Bordeaux.

She is now pursuing her career within the company, which enables her to combine her passion with her professional life.

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Passionate about board sports, Hermine has been sailing since she was a little girl, first cruising, then racing since 2018 on different boats (J80, Open 5.70, TF10, etc.).

After graduating from business school, Hermine spent 4 years in project management in a social enterprise.

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At the age of 14, he took charge of a sporting and musical event welcoming several thousand people each year, giving him an insight into this professional environment.

Alexis joined Tip & Shaft in September 2023 as Event Manager.

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Originally from La Rochelle and always attracted by the sea, she decided to leave Paris and travel for a year on her sailing boat around the Atlantic.

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A former high-level 49er athlete, after two Olympic preparations (London 2012 and Rio 2016), Sébastien joined the media world as a commercial for 10 years (in radio and then in outdoor advertising with Clear Channel).

Today he has decided to return to his passion, sailing, by joining Tip & Shaft as a sales manager.
Passionate about sports, he also practices ultra-cycling, finisher of the Race Across France 2500km.

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