In January 2023, the start of the first solo tour of the Ultimes, the Arkéa Ultim Challenge - Brest, was announced for 7 January 2024, with six participants. The maxi-trimarans will perform the round the world from west to east by the three capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn), about a distance of 21,760 miles from Brest to Brest.
The Supreme Soloists of the Ultimes
Six solo sailors embarked on a global journey on their 100-foot trimarans, showcasing their endurance and perseverance. Tom Laperche keeps an attentive eye from the canopy of SVR-Lazartigue. He ...
The Ultime Trimaran Ushers in a New Generation of Big Foilers
The collective gasp by onlookers as the massive tri emerged from the aircraft hangar-sized building shed at the Multiplast works in Vannes, France, said it all—the new Sodebo instantly made every other high-tech trimaran look like yesterday's boat. Measuring 104ft long by 75ft wide, the boat covers the area of four tennis courts, but it's the radical design elements that draw the eye.
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L'actualité des Ultimes, Ultim' 32X23, des MOD70, des Multi70, trimarans, catamaran, foilers, les courses, les chantiers et leurs skippers. De l'information en temps réel, rien que de l'info.
ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE
It was a turning point, an opportunity to make a lasting mark on the history of ocean racing. For the first time in the discipline, six skippers competed aboard multihulls, around the world, in races, in ULTIM and in Single-handed racing. This first edition, won by Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild), will go down in history as a landmark event, and we can already look forward with ...
Round the world race: 100ft trimarans set for solo race
The fastest offshore racing designs ever built, the foiling 100ft Ultim trimarans, will go head-to-head in a solo round the world race in 2023. The Ultim class has announced the first single ...
Fastnet record falls to Maxi Edmond de Rothschild as Ultimes finish 1
Winning trimaran Maxi Edmond de Rothschild did not have an entirely smooth race: they went aground on the Shingles Bank at 25 knots while leading the Ultimes out of the Solent, destroying the tip ...
Battle of the giants: The inside story of the Brest Atlantiques Race
The repaired Ultimes then restarted, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild chasing new leader Sodebo, which had a 200-mile advantage. But Sodebo made a full U-turn, heading back towards Brazil.
Arkea Ultim Challenge Skippers Ready to Go
January 2, 2024. The Ultim fleet of the Arkea Ultime Challenge-Brest, features six of the most advanced ocean-racing trimarans ever built. Alexis Courcoux. Compared with previous generations of ...
Ultime Trimaran: A New Breed of Sailing
The answer is the Ultime trimaran, designed by the French-based masters of the genre, VPLP. MACIF is 14.5 tons, 98 feet long and 69 feet wide. It draws 14.7 feet, and the rotating wing mast is 114 ...
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With the construction projects of new maxi-trimarans including Banque Populaire and Sodebo, the shipowners organized themselves by creating an Ultim Collective in 2013, then an Ultim Class in 2015 whose gauge they defined: the length of the boats is blocked at 32 meters , the width at 23 meters, which automatically excludes the new class of MOD ...
The ultimate foiling machine? Onboard SVR-Lazartigue
Onboard SVR-Lazartigue. SVR-Lazartigue is the newest Ultim trimaran, designed for current solo around the world record holder François Gabart. Gabart gave François Tregouet an exclusive tour of ...
Route du Rhum 2022: Ultims Design features
Xavier Guilbaud, project manager at VPLP, which designed five of the eight Ultim 32/23 lining up, explains. "In trimarans dating back to the generation of Idec Sport, foils were designed with the ability to raise half of the displacement, so the boat does not fly. Today we aim for 100%. The surface offering lift must be twice as big, but as ...
Huge Ultime Trimarans meet their match in epic sailing race
This is the start of the Brest Atlantiques race - and what an epic start! No music so you can hear these beasts of boats crying out in 30 knot winds off the ...
Classe Ultime
La classe Ultime plus connue sous le nom d'Ultime voire d'Ultim 32/23 est une catégorie hétérogène de trimarans de course au large, apparue à l'occasion de la Route du Rhum 2010 et regroupant les plus grands multicoques (supérieur ou égal à 60 pieds de longueur soit 18,28 m).Sa définition en tant que classe Ultim 32/23 date de 2018 ; 6 bateaux en font partie début 2024.
Ultim Emotion 2 / Antoine Rabaste
Mi mai, le trimaran est remis à l'eau à Lorient et convoyé jusqu'à Hennebont où il est gruté au sec avec son mât coupé en deux chez Nauty-Mor. Le 31 août 2018, le trimaran est toujours entreposé à Hennebont. Octobre 2019, le trimaran est racheté par Ultim Emotion et devient Ultim' Emotion 2, après le chavirage du 1.
Ultim Foiling Trimarans Schedule and Behind the Scenes
Today, while her transatlantic record may remain tough to beat, Banque Populaire V is old technology. Modern day Ultime trimarans at 100ft long may be shorter but, mostly thanks to their new foiling technology, are substantially faster. And this year's Rolex Fastnet Race will feature at least three of them. Francois Gabart: MACIF, all 30 x 21m ...
ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE
Il s'agissait d'un tournant, l'occasion de marquer durablement l'histoire de la course au large. Pour la première fois dans la discipline, six skippers se sont mesurés à bord de multicoques, autour du monde, en course, en ULTIM et en Solitaire. Bilan d'une première édition, remportée par Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild), qui fera date et qui permet déjà de se ...
Four Ultimes fly into Biscay in new 14,000-mile Brest Atlantiques race
The Brest Atlantiques Race, a new double-handed race for the Ultime giant trimarans, started from the Breton port of Brest this morning on a 14,000-mile around Atlantic loop. The four Ultimes set ...
MACIF: an Ultime for the ultimate solo race
An Ultime boat for the ultimate solo round the world race, the new MACIF for François Gabart is the first of a new generation of 100ft trimarans, writes James Boyd. With the ORMA 60 and MOD70 ...
EMBARQUÉ: "32 jours de course Ultim"
[English subtitles now available!]Pour les besoins médiatiques de la course "Brest - Atlantiques", Ronan c'est retrouvé embarqué comme "mediaman" sur le trim...
Ultime Archives
Armel Le Cléac'h's 100ft foiling trimaran Maxi Banque Populaire XI became the 15th boat to pass Cape Horn in a week, when he rounded at 05:01:50hrs UTC this morning, Sunday…
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In January 2023, the start of the first solo tour of the Ultimes, the Arkéa Ultim Challenge - Brest, was announced for 7 January 2024, with six participants. The maxi-trimarans will perform the round the world from west to east by the three capes (Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn), about a distance of 21,760 miles from Brest to Brest.
Six solo sailors embarked on a global journey on their 100-foot trimarans, showcasing their endurance and perseverance. Tom Laperche keeps an attentive eye from the canopy of SVR-Lazartigue. He ...
The collective gasp by onlookers as the massive tri emerged from the aircraft hangar-sized building shed at the Multiplast works in Vannes, France, said it all—the new Sodebo instantly made every other high-tech trimaran look like yesterday's boat. Measuring 104ft long by 75ft wide, the boat covers the area of four tennis courts, but it's the radical design elements that draw the eye.
L'actualité des Ultimes, Ultim' 32X23, des MOD70, des Multi70, trimarans, catamaran, foilers, les courses, les chantiers et leurs skippers. De l'information en temps réel, rien que de l'info.
It was a turning point, an opportunity to make a lasting mark on the history of ocean racing. For the first time in the discipline, six skippers competed aboard multihulls, around the world, in races, in ULTIM and in Single-handed racing. This first edition, won by Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild), will go down in history as a landmark event, and we can already look forward with ...
The fastest offshore racing designs ever built, the foiling 100ft Ultim trimarans, will go head-to-head in a solo round the world race in 2023. The Ultim class has announced the first single ...
Winning trimaran Maxi Edmond de Rothschild did not have an entirely smooth race: they went aground on the Shingles Bank at 25 knots while leading the Ultimes out of the Solent, destroying the tip ...
The repaired Ultimes then restarted, Maxi Edmond de Rothschild chasing new leader Sodebo, which had a 200-mile advantage. But Sodebo made a full U-turn, heading back towards Brazil.
January 2, 2024. The Ultim fleet of the Arkea Ultime Challenge-Brest, features six of the most advanced ocean-racing trimarans ever built. Alexis Courcoux. Compared with previous generations of ...
The answer is the Ultime trimaran, designed by the French-based masters of the genre, VPLP. MACIF is 14.5 tons, 98 feet long and 69 feet wide. It draws 14.7 feet, and the rotating wing mast is 114 ...
With the construction projects of new maxi-trimarans including Banque Populaire and Sodebo, the shipowners organized themselves by creating an Ultim Collective in 2013, then an Ultim Class in 2015 whose gauge they defined: the length of the boats is blocked at 32 meters , the width at 23 meters, which automatically excludes the new class of MOD ...
Onboard SVR-Lazartigue. SVR-Lazartigue is the newest Ultim trimaran, designed for current solo around the world record holder François Gabart. Gabart gave François Tregouet an exclusive tour of ...
Xavier Guilbaud, project manager at VPLP, which designed five of the eight Ultim 32/23 lining up, explains. "In trimarans dating back to the generation of Idec Sport, foils were designed with the ability to raise half of the displacement, so the boat does not fly. Today we aim for 100%. The surface offering lift must be twice as big, but as ...
This is the start of the Brest Atlantiques race - and what an epic start! No music so you can hear these beasts of boats crying out in 30 knot winds off the ...
La classe Ultime plus connue sous le nom d'Ultime voire d'Ultim 32/23 est une catégorie hétérogène de trimarans de course au large, apparue à l'occasion de la Route du Rhum 2010 et regroupant les plus grands multicoques (supérieur ou égal à 60 pieds de longueur soit 18,28 m).Sa définition en tant que classe Ultim 32/23 date de 2018 ; 6 bateaux en font partie début 2024.
Mi mai, le trimaran est remis à l'eau à Lorient et convoyé jusqu'à Hennebont où il est gruté au sec avec son mât coupé en deux chez Nauty-Mor. Le 31 août 2018, le trimaran est toujours entreposé à Hennebont. Octobre 2019, le trimaran est racheté par Ultim Emotion et devient Ultim' Emotion 2, après le chavirage du 1.
Today, while her transatlantic record may remain tough to beat, Banque Populaire V is old technology. Modern day Ultime trimarans at 100ft long may be shorter but, mostly thanks to their new foiling technology, are substantially faster. And this year's Rolex Fastnet Race will feature at least three of them. Francois Gabart: MACIF, all 30 x 21m ...
Il s'agissait d'un tournant, l'occasion de marquer durablement l'histoire de la course au large. Pour la première fois dans la discipline, six skippers se sont mesurés à bord de multicoques, autour du monde, en course, en ULTIM et en Solitaire. Bilan d'une première édition, remportée par Charles Caudrelier (Maxi Edmond de Rothschild), qui fera date et qui permet déjà de se ...
The Brest Atlantiques Race, a new double-handed race for the Ultime giant trimarans, started from the Breton port of Brest this morning on a 14,000-mile around Atlantic loop. The four Ultimes set ...
An Ultime boat for the ultimate solo round the world race, the new MACIF for François Gabart is the first of a new generation of 100ft trimarans, writes James Boyd. With the ORMA 60 and MOD70 ...
[English subtitles now available!]Pour les besoins médiatiques de la course "Brest - Atlantiques", Ronan c'est retrouvé embarqué comme "mediaman" sur le trim...
Armel Le Cléac'h's 100ft foiling trimaran Maxi Banque Populaire XI became the 15th boat to pass Cape Horn in a week, when he rounded at 05:01:50hrs UTC this morning, Sunday…