Vendée Globe

Nationality: Residence: La Rochelle (Charente-Maritime) Birth date: born in 1955 Vendée Globe achievements: 3rd entry in the Vendée Globe Boat: Temenos II Web Site: http://www.dominiquewavre.com Situation:

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A Swiss Monument

Dominique Wavre will be fifty-three when the race begins. It was a long time ago that as an adolescent he first sailed dinghies on Lake Geneva, before becoming an art student in Geneva. Over four decades of ocean racing, Dominique Wavre has acquired a wealth of experience on all the seas around the world: racing more than 300,000 miles! He has clocked up four Whitbreads (including one win in 1986) and already two Vendée Globe races. The Swiss yachtsman also finished second on two occasions in the Figaro Single-handed event and no longer fears anyone nor anything. He knows the three capes route and the breakers in the Southern Seas like the back of his hand.

The other Swiss monument (leaving to one side Bernard Stamm for the moment) has no intention of bringing things to an end at this point. Hardly had he completed the Vendée Globe, before he began the construction of his new Temenos, a boat that was built to win. Methodical, precise like a Swiss watch, Dominique Wavre will once again be someone to keep an eye on. And to watch very, very closely.

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• 4th in the 2004-2005 Vendée Globe
• 5th in the 2000-2001 Vendée Globe
• 3 Transat Jacques Vabre races
• 2nd in the British transatlantic race in 2004
• 4 Figaro single-handed events in 1990 and 1997)
• 2 AG2R transatlantic races (2nd in 1998)
• 24h solo monohull record in 2000
• Coach for the French Challenge team in the America’s Cup in 1991/92

On the 60’ « Temenos II »
• 3rd in the Barcelona World Race (with Michèle Paret)
• 4th in the 2007 Fastnet Race
• 4th in the 2007 Round Britain Race
• 4th in the 2006 Route du Rhum

Dominique called upon the designers in the Owen-Clarke studio to work on his new Téménos II. Built in June 2006 in New Zealand, the boat has since then covered an impressive number of miles. That is likely to be a major advantage in terms of the reliability and the fine-tuning of the boat.

Boat - Designer: Owen Clarke Design - Boatyard: Southern Ocean Marine (New Zealand) - Launch date: September 2006 - Length: 18.28 m (60’) - Beam: 5.50 m (18’) - Draught : 4.50 m (14’9’’) - Displacement (weight) : 8500 Kg - Number of daggerboards : 2 - Mast height: 28 m (91’10’’) - Keel blade: carbon - Upwind sail surface: 330 m2 - Downwind sail surface: 600 m2

© François Chevalier

• 28/12/08 : Dominique Wavre reaches Fremantle
• 22/12/08 : Dominique averaging 12 knots
• 13/12/08 : Temenos II moored in Morbihan Bay
• 13/12/08 : Dominique Wavre approaching Morbihan Bay
• 12/12/08 : Friday Daily Video Summary