Veolia Oceans® Assembly and Maintenance in Caen
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During a press briefing held on the initiative of Calvados Nautisme at the end of the day in the V1D2 maintenance yard, run by Marc Lefèbvre, Yvan Griboval (SailingOne) announced that it would be in the Mondeville district, in the nearby outskirts of Caen (Normandy), on the edge of the New Basin located on the canal linking the capital of Normandy to Ouistreham harbour and the Channel, that the SolOceans One Design Veolia Oceans® will be assembled. It will also be in this building of about one thousand square metres that has been made available to SailingOne and V1D2 by Normandy Aménagement that the annual check up and maintenance of the Veolia Oceans® will be carried out.
From left to right around the model of the Veolia Oceans® in V1D2: Christian Brit, in charge of the Veolia Oceans® production, Yvan Griboval (SailingOne), Xavier Lebrun, Vice-President of the Calvados Department, Marc Lefèbvre, Director of V1D2.
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Photo Jean-Marie Liot - SailingOne
The SolOceans is the first single-handed oceanic round the world race to be sailed on equal footing on Veolia Oceans® Oceanic One Design sixteen-metre high-tech monohulls, all completely identical to each other, on a France - New Zealand - France course. The initial starting date has been set for 25 October 2009 and the SolOceans race will then be run every two years. The first Veolia Oceans® will sail around the world for reconnaissance purposes from October 2007 to March 2008.
Christian Brit, production manager of the Veolia Oceans® at SailingOne, explains that “the hulls and decks will be built of Hexcel carbon baked at 90 degrees by JMV Industries in Cherbourg, who will also make the main bulkheads and ballasts. We will make the other bulkheads and accommodation areas in Hexcel carbon via infusion in our Saint Philibert (Morbihan) workshop. JMV Industries will deliver a hull ready to be fitted out and then equipped to become a Veolia Oceans®”. Moreover, Yvan Griboval adds that “The decks and hulls of the Veolia Oceans® will be transported by road from Cherbourg to our Caen maintenance base. This is where we will carry out the assembly of all the pieces of the puzzle, providing the Veolia Oceans® with their around the world equipment. They will also be launched here".
Marc Lefèbvre explains from his side: “We have an exceptional amount of space on the edge of the basin nearly eight metres deep, which will make it easy to work with the boats the draft of which exceeds four metres. Our pit for fitting and removing the keel of large boats is also a very useful tool. This work in collaboration with SailingOne for the equipment, finishings and annual maintenance of the Veolia Oceans® will be a true development vector for V1D2 and for the sailing industry in general in Calvados (Normandy). The media coverage that will result from the organizers of the SolOceans setting up alongside us in Caen, as well as having their maintenance base here, will strengthen the momentum that the elected representatives have already been breathing into Lower Normandy for the last few years, to the advantage of this expanding sector. It is an opportunity for the whole of the region's sailing industry". Yvan Griboval concludes that “To have a construction centre of JMV Industries' quality in Cherbourg (Normandy) and a technical sailing base as high-performing and well known internationally as V1D2 in Caen, offers us a coherent and high-performing arrangement. These are, on the one hand, additional guarantees of the development of the Veolia Oceans® fleet and on the other, of the SolOceans”.
Marc Lefèbvre created V1D2 in Mondeville in 1999, following his work as a self-employed boat preparer from 1986. His name is associated with the victories of Alain Gautier on Bagages Superior in the Vendée Globe 1992, of Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson in the BOC Challenge 1994 (single-handed around the world with stopovers), Christophe Auguin on Geodis in the Vendée Globe 1996, then Bernard Stamm on Armor Lux in Around Alone (ex-BOC Challenge) in 2002 - which Bernard Stamm is currently the outright leader of on Cheminées Poujoulat in the Velux Five Oceans (ex-BOC Challenge).
Among the most famous customers of Marc Lefèbvre and the V1D2 maintenance yard are the French, Alain Gautier, Christophe Auguin, Marc Thiercelin, as well as sailors from abroad such as Mike Golding, Ellen MacArthur, Nick Moloney, Dee Caffari, Conrad Humphreys and Bernard Stamm. The IMOCA 60 (18.20 metres) monohulls of these well-known sailors have made Caen their port of call in the expert hands of the Marc Lefèbvre team.
Their professional careers of Marc Lefèbvre and Christian Brit have often met, particularly between 1994 and 1998, when they both worked on the same winning projects for around the world races. They also had the opportunity to be part of the Jean-Marie Vaur team within JMV Industries. So in some ways a sort of dream team is being recreated today around the series production of the Veolia Oceans® and the SolOceans, for new around the world adventures
Christian Brit, production manager of the Veolia Oceans® at SailingOne, explains that “the hulls and decks will be built of Hexcel carbon baked at 90 degrees by JMV Industries in Cherbourg, who will also make the main bulkheads and ballasts. We will make the other bulkheads and accommodation areas in Hexcel carbon via infusion in our Saint Philibert (Morbihan) workshop. JMV Industries will deliver a hull ready to be fitted out and then equipped to become a Veolia Oceans®”. Moreover, Yvan Griboval adds that “The decks and hulls of the Veolia Oceans® will be transported by road from Cherbourg to our Caen maintenance base. This is where we will carry out the assembly of all the pieces of the puzzle, providing the Veolia Oceans® with their around the world equipment. They will also be launched here".
Marc Lefèbvre explains from his side: “We have an exceptional amount of space on the edge of the basin nearly eight metres deep, which will make it easy to work with the boats the draft of which exceeds four metres. Our pit for fitting and removing the keel of large boats is also a very useful tool. This work in collaboration with SailingOne for the equipment, finishings and annual maintenance of the Veolia Oceans® will be a true development vector for V1D2 and for the sailing industry in general in Calvados (Normandy). The media coverage that will result from the organizers of the SolOceans setting up alongside us in Caen, as well as having their maintenance base here, will strengthen the momentum that the elected representatives have already been breathing into Lower Normandy for the last few years, to the advantage of this expanding sector. It is an opportunity for the whole of the region's sailing industry". Yvan Griboval concludes that “To have a construction centre of JMV Industries' quality in Cherbourg (Normandy) and a technical sailing base as high-performing and well known internationally as V1D2 in Caen, offers us a coherent and high-performing arrangement. These are, on the one hand, additional guarantees of the development of the Veolia Oceans® fleet and on the other, of the SolOceans”.
Marc Lefèbvre created V1D2 in Mondeville in 1999, following his work as a self-employed boat preparer from 1986. His name is associated with the victories of Alain Gautier on Bagages Superior in the Vendée Globe 1992, of Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson in the BOC Challenge 1994 (single-handed around the world with stopovers), Christophe Auguin on Geodis in the Vendée Globe 1996, then Bernard Stamm on Armor Lux in Around Alone (ex-BOC Challenge) in 2002 - which Bernard Stamm is currently the outright leader of on Cheminées Poujoulat in the Velux Five Oceans (ex-BOC Challenge).
Among the most famous customers of Marc Lefèbvre and the V1D2 maintenance yard are the French, Alain Gautier, Christophe Auguin, Marc Thiercelin, as well as sailors from abroad such as Mike Golding, Ellen MacArthur, Nick Moloney, Dee Caffari, Conrad Humphreys and Bernard Stamm. The IMOCA 60 (18.20 metres) monohulls of these well-known sailors have made Caen their port of call in the expert hands of the Marc Lefèbvre team.
Their professional careers of Marc Lefèbvre and Christian Brit have often met, particularly between 1994 and 1998, when they both worked on the same winning projects for around the world races. They also had the opportunity to be part of the Jean-Marie Vaur team within JMV Industries. So in some ways a sort of dream team is being recreated today around the series production of the Veolia Oceans® and the SolOceans, for new around the world adventures
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