Vendée Globe

A man in a hurry

Yet another pure Morlaix Bay product, he grew up sailing Optimists with his family from a very tender age… but Jérémie Beyou gained experience too and learnt how to sail in the National Sailing school in Brest and discovered top level racing. By the age of 18, he was already up with the winners in the French Youth Dinghy Championships. At 19 years of age, in 1995, he discovered the Figaro Bénéteau. At twenty, he competed in his first Figaro single-handed event… In 1998, he reached the top ten in the French Ocean racing Championship and has never left it since then.

In 2005, the man in a hurry (in any case on the water!) towered over his opponents in the Figaro. Meticulous, precise, stubborn, he showed his full talent by winning an amazing Grand Slam: a win in the Generali Solo, a win in the Route du Ponant and of course above all, a stunning win in the Figaro single-handed event, at the end of a legendary final leg snatching victory from Michel Desjoyeaux in a nasty storm. From that moment on, it was only logical for Jérémie to show his talent in other races: as crewman aboard the Banque Populaire trimaran, by becoming a router during the Transat Jacques Vabre, before convincing his partner to stand by him in the major single-handed event that is the Vendée Globe.

www.jeremie-beyou.com

• Figaro single-handed circuit in 2005: French solo ocean racing champion, winner of the the Figaro single-handed event, of the Generali Solo, and the Route du Ponant.
• 9 Figaro single-handed events
• 6 two-handed transatlantic races
• ORMA world champion on the Banque Populaire trimaran 2005
• Winner of the 2003 Round Britain and Ireland Race
• French solo ocean racing champion 2002

On the 60’ « Delta Dore »
• 2nd in the 2007 Calais Round Britain Race
• Retired from the 2007 Barcelona World race after dismasting
• 4th in the 2008 SNSM Record

Like Michel Desjoyeaux and Vincent Riou, Jérémie called on the services of Farr Yacht Design, LTD to design his Delta Dore. Even if he has had some bad luck, Jérémie Beyou knows that he can rely on his efficient machine to set sail in the Vendée Globe.

Boat - Designer: Bruce Farr Yacht Design - Boatyard : JMV Industries - Launch date: September 2006 - Length : 18.28m (60’) - Beam : 5.75m (18’3’’) - Draught: 4.50m (14’9’’) - Displacement (weight): 8500 kg - Number of daggerboards: 2 - Mast height: 28m (91’10’’) - Upwind sail surface area : 300m2 - Downwind sail surface area : 620m2

© François Chevalier

• 26/11/08 : Delta Dore abandons
• 26/11/08 : A heart-breaking decision
• 26/11/08 : Delta Dore’s day of reckoning
• 23/11/08 : Jérémie Beyou proceeding with the utmost caution
• 23/11/08 : Never satisfied