Ultim : les dernières infos Tip & Shaft

The second week of the Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest has been a busy one, with Armel Le Cléac’h’s stopover in Recife, damage to SVR Lazartigue and Charles Caudrelier, who has just passed Good Hope, almost setting a new 24-hour record. To analyse these events, Tip & Shaft interviewed Sébastien Josse, winner of the last Transat Jacques Vabre with Armel Le Cléac’h, meteorologist Jean-Yves Bernot, member of SVR-Lazartigue’s routing team, and Gildas Morvan, race director of the last Finistère Atlantique.

To analyse the first few days of the Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest, Tip & Shaft interviewed François Gabart, who has left the helm of SVR-Lazartigue to Tom Laperche, Franck Cammas, former skipper of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, and meteorologist Dominic Vittet, a member of Sodebo Ultim 3’s routing team.

Ariane de Rothschild, president of the Edmond de Rothschild Group, and Cyril Dardashti, managing director of the Gitana Team, officially announced on Thursday in Paris the launch of a new Ultim, designed by Guillaume Verdier and built by CDK Group. Tip & Shaft was present and tells you more about this new project.

Second last weekend in the 24h Ultim finishing just 3 minutes behind Banque Populaire, Charles Caudrelier now heads to the Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie-Le Havre, with his co skipper Erwan Israel, then to the Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest, a unique new solo Ultim race around the world which will start on January 7. He spoke to Tip & Shaft.

Last Wednesday the SVR-Lazartigue team held a press briefing at the Maison de la Bretagne in Paris to announce that, in early 2024, it will be the young Tom Laperche who will compete in the Arkea Ultim Challenge-Brest as François Gabart chooses to focus on double handed and crewed sailing with the boat. And at the same time they talked of integration back into the Ultim 32/23 class, as we announced two weeks ago.