The first Veolia Oceans® one-design leaves the mould
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The first carbon hull of the Veolia Oceans® one-design for the SolOceans to be series produced was removed from the mould yesterday night by the Jean-Marie Vaur team at the JMV Industries in Cherbourg (Lower Normandy) yard, under the supervision of Christian Brit, SailingOne's production manager. This hull was loaded onto a truck this morning and arrived in Caen (Lower Normandy) in the middle of the afternoon. The first unit of the Veolia Oceans® one-design class can now be prepared by the teams of SailingOne in collaboration with those of V1D2, the maintenance yard managed by Marc Lefèbvre located near the New Dock in Caen. The deck, currently being built by JMV Industries, will follow the same route during the second half of August. The launch has been programmed for the start of the second half of September.
The first hull of Veolia Oceans® one-design being loaded onto a truck as she leaves the JMV Industries yard (Cherbourg) bound for the V1D2 yard (Caen) where she will be prepared before the world reconnaissance tour of the SolOceans during winter 2007-2008.
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Photo Jean-Marie Liot - SailingOne
Let us recall that the Veolia Oceans® one-design has been built for the SolOceans, the first single-handed oceanic round the world race to follow a Lower Normandy - New Zealand - Lower Normandy course. It will be sailed on equal footing on totally identical sixteen-metre high-tech one-design monohulls. 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.
“It is obviously a very moving moment”, Yvan Griboval, President of SailingOne and Designer of the SolOceans, told us this morning at Cherbourg: “to be there at the birth of a racing yacht which slowly formed in my mind during winter 2004-2005, in this way, is something very special and I am indebted to the sponsors of this event, particularly, Veolia Environmental Services, who from the very first, placed their trust in the project and gave their name to this one-design class: the Veolia Oceans®. It is also the fruit of the considerable amount of work carried out by Christian Brit's team around whom we have woven a network of skills, first in Morbihan and then in Lower Normandy. Worth mentioning, for example, is the quality of the work carried out by the Cherbourg yard, JMV Industries. Thanks to their immense experience in the construction of high-tech monohulls, unequalled in France today, the contribution of the Norman yard is invaluable. In this way, we are launching a series of one-designs built as pure prototypes, but also strictly identical to each other thanks to the working methods retained. It is the guarantee of a high-performing yacht for the competitors and longevity and dependability for the owners. These are the two essential aims of our approach”.
“For this Veolia Oceans® one-design class we have retained the construction method of baked Nomex prepreg carbon (Hexcel Composites) for the hull, deck, keel and mast bulkheads. This is carried out by JMV Industries in Cherbourg”, explains Christian Brit. “For the other bulkheads, the ballast and other additional elements, including the furniture in the saloon, we will be using the carbon infusion method, which is perfectly mastered by our colleague Nicolas Mahé in our own specialized workshop in Saint Philibert (Morbihan, Brittany)”.
“Each hull should leave JMV Industries ready-equipped with all its bulkheads, ballast, its galley area - chart table and hull”, explains Yvan Griboval. “However, as with every first-born in a series, we have increased the initially planned conception period. It is in fact difficult to put a final deadline on the creativity of designers, particularly when they are the Jean-Marie Finot - Pascal Conq tandem, the super specialists of oceanic monohulls raced single-handed! Moreover, we would prefer to launch the first Veolia Oceans® one-design with a two-month delay on our 2005 schedule, to allow the designers the opportunity to make a few innovations coming from the recent research in the IMOCA 60 prototypes intended for the Barcelona World Race 2007 and the Vendée Globe 2008. What does a two-month delay represent - which, moreover, will made up for before the start of the Reconnaissance Tour next autumn - for a competition yacht whose lifetime will exceed fifteen years? The “delay” has notably allowed us to benefit from a few design tricks from the Finot -Conq and Associates Group and this should be rewarded by increased performance at certain points of sailing. One must not forget that the Veolia Oceans® one-design measures sixteen metres, only 2.2 metres less than the IMOCA 60 prototypes. A good deal of the solutions retained for one can be adapted to the other and the future owners and skippers of Veolia Oceans® will be the first to benefit from this”.
“At Caen, in collaboration with Marc Lefèvbre (V1D2), we are going to fit the keel of the Veolia Oceans® one-design”, describes Christian Brit. “We are also going to fix the deck equipment. The Veolia OceanoScientific® equipment will be installed, as well as the video equipment for TV broadcasts. It will be painted, then masted and the rigging will be trimmed by V1D2 at the first trials in Ouistreham. We will then go to Cherbourg, the port of registry for the series, where we will proceed with all sorts of tests”.
“In Cherbourg, we will be checking out the different equipment onboard”, continued Yvan Griboval, “but also sailing with the many skippers from all over the world who have asked to be able to discover this oceanic racing yacht as soon as possible. Then we will go ahead with the preparation of this first Veolia Oceans® one-design, so that it will be able to set course for the port in New Zealand where the SolOceans will stopover in 2009. The choice of this large port will be revealed in the early days of October during a reception in the lounges of the New Zealand Embassy in Paris. For this first around the world, we are contemplating putting our own skipper at the helm. For each leg he will welcome two single-handed applicants who will come both to test the Veolia Oceans® in real around the world racing conditions, but also their own capacity to sail around the planet on some of the most hostile seas in the world”.
“It is obviously a very moving moment”, Yvan Griboval, President of SailingOne and Designer of the SolOceans, told us this morning at Cherbourg: “to be there at the birth of a racing yacht which slowly formed in my mind during winter 2004-2005, in this way, is something very special and I am indebted to the sponsors of this event, particularly, Veolia Environmental Services, who from the very first, placed their trust in the project and gave their name to this one-design class: the Veolia Oceans®. It is also the fruit of the considerable amount of work carried out by Christian Brit's team around whom we have woven a network of skills, first in Morbihan and then in Lower Normandy. Worth mentioning, for example, is the quality of the work carried out by the Cherbourg yard, JMV Industries. Thanks to their immense experience in the construction of high-tech monohulls, unequalled in France today, the contribution of the Norman yard is invaluable. In this way, we are launching a series of one-designs built as pure prototypes, but also strictly identical to each other thanks to the working methods retained. It is the guarantee of a high-performing yacht for the competitors and longevity and dependability for the owners. These are the two essential aims of our approach”.
“For this Veolia Oceans® one-design class we have retained the construction method of baked Nomex prepreg carbon (Hexcel Composites) for the hull, deck, keel and mast bulkheads. This is carried out by JMV Industries in Cherbourg”, explains Christian Brit. “For the other bulkheads, the ballast and other additional elements, including the furniture in the saloon, we will be using the carbon infusion method, which is perfectly mastered by our colleague Nicolas Mahé in our own specialized workshop in Saint Philibert (Morbihan, Brittany)”.
“Each hull should leave JMV Industries ready-equipped with all its bulkheads, ballast, its galley area - chart table and hull”, explains Yvan Griboval. “However, as with every first-born in a series, we have increased the initially planned conception period. It is in fact difficult to put a final deadline on the creativity of designers, particularly when they are the Jean-Marie Finot - Pascal Conq tandem, the super specialists of oceanic monohulls raced single-handed! Moreover, we would prefer to launch the first Veolia Oceans® one-design with a two-month delay on our 2005 schedule, to allow the designers the opportunity to make a few innovations coming from the recent research in the IMOCA 60 prototypes intended for the Barcelona World Race 2007 and the Vendée Globe 2008. What does a two-month delay represent - which, moreover, will made up for before the start of the Reconnaissance Tour next autumn - for a competition yacht whose lifetime will exceed fifteen years? The “delay” has notably allowed us to benefit from a few design tricks from the Finot -Conq and Associates Group and this should be rewarded by increased performance at certain points of sailing. One must not forget that the Veolia Oceans® one-design measures sixteen metres, only 2.2 metres less than the IMOCA 60 prototypes. A good deal of the solutions retained for one can be adapted to the other and the future owners and skippers of Veolia Oceans® will be the first to benefit from this”.
“At Caen, in collaboration with Marc Lefèvbre (V1D2), we are going to fit the keel of the Veolia Oceans® one-design”, describes Christian Brit. “We are also going to fix the deck equipment. The Veolia OceanoScientific® equipment will be installed, as well as the video equipment for TV broadcasts. It will be painted, then masted and the rigging will be trimmed by V1D2 at the first trials in Ouistreham. We will then go to Cherbourg, the port of registry for the series, where we will proceed with all sorts of tests”.
“In Cherbourg, we will be checking out the different equipment onboard”, continued Yvan Griboval, “but also sailing with the many skippers from all over the world who have asked to be able to discover this oceanic racing yacht as soon as possible. Then we will go ahead with the preparation of this first Veolia Oceans® one-design, so that it will be able to set course for the port in New Zealand where the SolOceans will stopover in 2009. The choice of this large port will be revealed in the early days of October during a reception in the lounges of the New Zealand Embassy in Paris. For this first around the world, we are contemplating putting our own skipper at the helm. For each leg he will welcome two single-handed applicants who will come both to test the Veolia Oceans® in real around the world racing conditions, but also their own capacity to sail around the planet on some of the most hostile seas in the world”.
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- Launching of the first Veolia Oceans® - Wednesday October 24th 2007
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- The first Veolia Oceans® one-design leaves the mould - Thursday August 2nd 2007
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- Veolia Oceans® Assembly and Maintenance in Caen - Thursday April 12th 2007
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