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Boat sponsorship

The project

In December 2005, the Safran group decided to sponsor an ocean racing program, and engaged well-known French skipper Marc Guillemot.

Marc Guillemot © Vincent Curutchet / DPPI / Safran

Apart from the passion for sailing shared by a large number of its staff, Safran’s decision to sponsor ocean racing is also a logical outcome of the technological and cultural affinities between aviation and sailing. In fact, Safran plunged into the construction of an Open 60 class (sixty-foot) monohull ocean racing yacht, building in some of the Group’s leading-edge technologies. In this sense, Safran is not a run-of-the-mill sponsor like others. Its involvement in the project is a unique mix, with extensive technological input from the Group in addition to financial backing.

Project milestones

- January 1, 2006: Start of boat design by the naval architects Guillaume Verdier and VPLP
- March 31, 2006: Announcement of the choice of Larros as the shipyard and start of construction of the Safran 60ft monohull
- August 6, 2007: Safran launch
- September 1, 2007: Safran christening ceremony
- November 20, 2007: Arrival in Bahia, 2nd in the Transat Jacques Vabre
- December 14, 2007: Arrival in Port-La-Forêt, 5th in the Transat Ecover B to B
- May 26, 2008: Arrival in Boston, 4th in the Artemis Transat
- February 16, 2009: Arrival in Sables d’Olonne, 3rd in the Vendée Globe
- November 24, 2009: Arrival in Puerto Limon (Costa Rica), 1st in the Transat Jacques Vabre 2009
- July 1st, 2010 Arrival in Barcelona (Spain) 1st in the "Vuelta a España a Vela"
- October 31, 2010 Departure of the Transat La Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale (St Malo - Pointe-à-Pître)
- November 15, 2010 : Arrival in Pointe-à-Pitre (La Guadeloupe), 3rd in the Route du Rhum - La Banque Postale
- June, 2011, 1st in the Round Britain and Ireland Record
- November 30, 2011Transat Jacques Vabre (duo with Yann Eliès), between Le Havre and Puerto Limon (Costa Rica)5th
- December 5, 2011Transat BtoB (solo), between St Barthélémy and Lorient (Brittany)5th

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