The freezing breeze that had been blowing for a few days on the pontoons of Lorient 鈥� La Base has finally calmed down. At 24 hours from the start of , everything is calm. The IMOCA 天博体育 Group 鈥� Lantana Environnement is ready鈥� because at one point Louis and his team have to say 鈥渟top鈥�, we stop there鈥� A race boat never being as ready as their skippers and preparers, perfectionists and demanding would like.
Tomorrow, the weather conditions will be mild for the kick-off of this spring transat. But this relative calm hides a train of depressions with which the loners will have to deal from the beginning of next week.
Competitors will therefore start by drawing north 鈥渁lmost to the Fastnet鈥�, to slide under a first depression before negotiating a weather transition and the arrival of a second front accompanied by thunderstorms and a very formed sea鈥�
Louis Duc, IMOCA skipper 天博体育 Group 鈥� Lantana Environnement: "I don鈥檛 want to project myself into the long term. We can see how it will go, but it moves very quickly, we will have to refine as we go. A priori, it should go fast enough鈥� but everything can still change!"
The Transat CIC kicks off tomorrow, Sunday 28 April at 13:30 between Lorient and Groix.
Discussing live, with Louis
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天博体育 Group 鈥� Lantana Environnement team Programme
- April 28th 2024: Start of The Transat CIC
- September 12th-14th 2024: D茅fi Azimut - Lorient Agglom茅ration
- November 10th 2024: start of Vend茅e Globe
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Louis and his team gave a new life to a very damaged IMOCA because of a fire. This refurbishment undertaking was a real technical challenge... that succeeded in only 10 months!
Louis and his team continue to apply this upcycling principle and optimization research with a constant effort on sobriety throughout this Vend茅e Globe program.
Louis is also very keen on respecting everyone's work and giving a chance.
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