Sam DAVIES INITIATIVES-COEUR

3rd participation
UK
48 years old
Trégunc
What if it was her ? Ever since Lady Ellen MacArthur’s fantastic second place in 2000-2001, no other woman has managed to get up on the Vendée Globe podium. Sam Davies is the only one to have brushed the exploit in 2008-2009, seizing fourth place thanks to her talent and considerable energy. Although her second Vendée Globe in 2012-2013 ended much too early with her dismasting, the British sailor continues to be among favorites as soon as she gets set for a race. Could ... Read more
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IMOCA monohull
INITIATIVES-COEUR
Sam Davies has inherited one of the most emblematic boats among IMOCA boats. Developed for Michel Desjoyeaux, it quickly took on the colours of Banque Populaire, and, with a four-hour difference, could have made Armel Le Cléac’h the winner of the Vendée Globe 2012-2013. But it was François Gabart’s first appearance and his glittering victory. The 60-foot boat then took on the colours of Maître-Coq, and Jérémie Beyou brought it to second place in the Transat Jacques-Vabre 2015, then to first place in the Transat New York – Les Sables d’Olonne, and to third place in the Vendée Globe 2016-2017. Developed in 2010, is this boat too old to seek a position on the podium again ? Specialists will say otherwise : in the meantime, new gauge rules regulate the new boats, giving older boats some leeway which allows them to remain competitive. Sam will thus be well equipped for her third Vendée Globe.
INITIATIVES-COEUR
- Sail number : FRA109
- Former names: Maître CoQ - Banque Populaire VII- Foncia II
- Architect: VPLP - Verdier
- Construction: CDK Technologies
- Launch Date: 20 September 2010
- Length: 18,28 m
- Beam: 5,70 m
- Draught: 4,50 m
- Weight: 7,8 t
- Number of drifts: foils
- Mast height: 27 m
- Keel blade: acier forgé
- Upwind sail area: 300 m2
- Downwind sail area: 600 m2
Press contact
Lucas Veron
06 22 11 95 20
lveron@oconnection.fr