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.
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