Le nouveau Initiatives-Cœur est construit dans le moule de l’ancien L’Occitane en Provence d’Armel Tripon sur les plans de l’architecte Sam Manuard. Ce qui permettra à Sam de disposer d’une carène très innovante, et des retours d’expérience du dernier Vendée Globe.
La construction est confiée au chantier Black Pepper. L’équipe Initiatives-Cœur se charge de l’assemblage : quille, mât, accastillage, mécanique, électronique, peinture… Le bureau d'études intégré pilotera les évolutions par rapport à la précédente version notamment sur les foils, et adaptera le bateau à Sam.
Sa mise à l’eau est prévue à l’été 2022, ce qui permettra d’envisager sereinement le Vendée Globe 2024, avec pour commencer une belle participation à la Route du Rhum 2022.
The Initiatives-Coeur is a 60-foot IMOCA racing yacht (International Monohull Open Class Association) whose length is a regulatory 60 feet i.e. 18.28 metres.
The Black Pearl, captained by the famous pirate Jack Sparrow, was nearly three times longer but not nearly as fast!
The Initiatives-Coeur has a speed of up to 30 knots, that is, 55 kph at maximum speed.
class mini
21-foot
monohull
class 40
40-foot
monohull
Imoca
60-foot
monohull
Multi 50
50-foot
multihull
ultime
multihull greater than or equal to 60 feet
class mini
21-foot
monohull
class 40
40-foot
monohull
Imoca
60-foot
monohull
Multi 50
50-foot
multihull
ultime
multihull greater than or equal to 60 feet
2022
The Naylah* Years
This boat is especially built for Sam Davies.
The second time used mould off Armel Tripon's former boat, will mean that she benefits from the latest advanced technologies, notably the rounded shape of the bow (known as the Skow shape).
Running up to face the oceans in time for the 2024 Vendée Globe.
*Naylah (Congo) operated in 2021.
2017
The Ardacha* Years
The new Initiatives-Cœur is a foiled boat launched in 2010, with which Jérémy Beyou finished 3rd in the Vendée Globe in 2017.
During the Vendée Globe 2020, he suffered a major keel damage which forced Sam to stop for repairs in South Africa. She will courageously end the round the world race without the race and will save 103 children!
*Ardacha was operated on in 2016.
215 children saved
2014
The Obed* Years
This 2006 sailboat was the craft in which Vincent Riou (PRB) saved Jean Le Cam when his boat was wrecked in the 2009 Vendée Globe.
Tanguy finished 7th in the Route du Rhum in 2014 and 5th in the Transat Jacques Vabre 2015 with Sam Davies.
In 2016, he withdrew from the Vendée Globe after his mast was damaged.
*Obed was operated on in 2012.
95 children saved
2012
a heart on its sails
Tanguy de Lamotte made his debut in the Imoca class with the Vendée Globe 2012 at the bar of a 1998 sailboat that Catherine Chabaud and Marc Thiercelin had both sailed on.
He finished his round-the-world tour in 95 days.
In 2013, he competed in the Transat Jacques Vabre with actor and humorist François Damiens.
31 children saved