Legallais Sailing Team 2022
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THE LEGALLAIS SAILING TEAM: 10TH IN THE CLASS40 CHAMPIONSHIP IN 2022
THE 2022 RACES
2022 season awards
1 000 Milles des Sables
Solo race
9 April 2022
Departure from Sables d’Olonne
Distance : 1,000 nm
Classement : 10th
Durée : 5 days, 19 hours, 03 minutes
CIC Normandy Channel Race
Double-handed race
Official partner
15 May 2022
Departure from Ouistreham
Distance : 1,000 nm
Classement : 10th
Durée : 4 days, 22 hours, 50 minutes and 40 seconds
Drheam Cup
Solo race
17 July 2022
Departure from Cherbourg
Distance : 1,000 nm
Classement : 12th
Durée : 4 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes and 6 seconds
40′ Malouine Lamotte
“False solo” race
15 September 2022
Departure from Saint-Malo
Distance : 180 nm
Classement : 16th
Durée : 22 hours and 33 minutes
Route du Rhum
Solo race
6 November 2022
Departure from Saint-Malo
Distance : 3,500 nm
Classement : 26th
Durée : 18 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes and 04 seconds
L’ÉQUIPE
CASENAVE-PÉRÉ Pierre
Skipper
Born in Caen, Pierre made his first tacks in the Barneville-Carteret harbour, facing the Channel Islands. He was educated in Caen, Paris, and then London, and continued his higher education at Columbia University on the other side of the Atlantic.
In 2019, he took a gap year to train, qualify and participate in the Mini Transat. This solo transatlantic race allowed him to discover the job of skipper and confirm his passion for the open sea.
In 2021, Pierre launches Legallais in ocean racing with the Legallais Sailing Team. After a season of learning and discovering Class40 races, he finished 8th in the Transat Jacques Vabre and 5th in the championship with his co-skipper Kevin Bloch.
He holds a Master’s degree in Operations Research and is interested in data analysis and decision making.
GAUCHET Paul
Technical preparer
Originally from the Paris region, Paul was not destined to make sailing his profession. However, he discovered his passion at the age of 7 by following the competitors in the Vendée Globe. Hooked on cartography and their on board messages, he enrolled in sailing courses the following summer.
Paul started competing in 2015 in La Rochelle and joined a maritime high school where he obtained the Captaine 200, a merchant marine certificate. He bought his first Mini 6.50 in 2018 and completely renovated it. During the 2019 season, he met Pierre, as they were both participating in the same races. In 2020, he changed his boat and continued to be involved full time on the Mini circuit until 2021.
Paul joined the Legallais Sailing Team at the start of 2022 as a technical trainer. His role was to carry out the technical monitoring of the boat throughout the year, including the supervision of the winter shipyard, the boat’s optimisation for solo sailing and the logistics before, during and after races
THE BOAT
The Class40 rule emerged in the early 2000s with the aim of filling the gap between the Minis (6.50m boats) and the IMOCAs (18m). The idea was to create a racing machine that was seaworthy enough to cross the Atlantic safely.
It has now become a breeding ground for talent in ocean racing and allows both fine racers and aspiring round-the-world racers to gain solid maritime experience.
The Class40 No. 145 is a Mach 40.3 launched in 2015. As the second boat in the series dominating the races in 2016-2019, it combined performance and reliability. This attractive profile has already allowed him to cross the Atlantic 6 times.
Technical specifications
Overall length: 12.19 m
Midship beam: 4.5 m
Draught: 3 m
Displacement tonnage: 4,500 kg
Construction: Glass/Epoxy
THE COMMITTED LEGALLAIS SAILING TEAM
LEGALLAIS’ Class40 flew the colours of the ACTA VISTA association throughout the 2022 year.
supports
Since 2002, ACTA VISTA, a major actor in active inclusion through heritage, has been using the restoration of endangered heritage to support and train people in precarious situations, in order to help them regain confidence and build a professional future.
The LEGALLAIS company Foundation donated to the association €1 per nautical mile of the total distance covered in all the races the Legallais Sailing Team took part in. Through the five races of the 2022 sports programme, the LEGALLAIS Foundation donated €8,338 to ACTA VISTA.
Follow the collection
Combining craftsmanship and technology, ocean racing naturally includes many SMEs and ISEs in the construction industry, a world with which it shares many common points, including the need to have good tools to work accurately.
For the past few years, the enthusiasm of the French for ocean racing has been growing. This is due in particular to the development of state-of-the-art technologies that allow close contact to be kept with sailors taking part in the race through video conferences, videos, photos and regular e-mails.
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