L'OCCITANE EN PROVENCE

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Baptismal name	L'OCCITANE EN PROVENCE
Architect	Sam Manuard
Construction	2019, Black Pepper Yachts
Launch date	1/31/20

Skipper	Armel TRIPON

Presentation

Entrusting Sam Manuard with the design of his IMOCA, Armel Tripon really packed a punch: L’Occitane bares no resemblance to her ‘playmates’ with her scow bow, her moderate beam and her raised foils…

Indeed, the naval architect had already shaken up the rulebook in the Mini and then the Class40 classes with a series of yachts with increasingly wide bows, culminating with the scow bow. A highly original IMOCA seemed like a given then when the skipper turned to the designer in question. L’Occitane en Provence is radical in this regard: built on the quiet at Black Pepper Yachts in Nantes, the monohull hit the water in early 2020, then had her foils installed at the end of the winter. The performance seems to match the project’s ambitions and, significantly, the IMOCA is pretty dry, which is a definite advantage for a singlehanded round the world race. Sam Manuard, who’d already collaborated on the design of the foils for Maître CoQ (turned Initiatives Cœur), has totally revised the siting of these appendages, which exit the hull at the sheer in contrast to the other monohulls. As for Armel Tripon, he plans to participate in two transatlantics in 2020 prior to the Vendée Globe.

Length	18,28 m
Beam	5,5 m
Draught	4,50 m
Weight	7,8 tonnes
Mast height	28 m
Mast type	Wing mast
Foils	Yes
Surface voile max.
Près	270 m2
Portant	535 m2

News

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After Jérémie Beyou’s Charal, the first new generation monohull launched a year ago, things sped up this summer with the launch of no fewer than five new IMOCAs in just over six weeks. In all, eight brand new IMOCAs will…

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