For her new adventures, Sam Davies is at the bar of the new high-performance Initiatives-Cœur sailboat.
Built in 2010, she has competed in two Vendée Globe races (arrival in 2nd and 3rd position) Fitted with foils in 2015, she is ready to take the seven seas by storm.
Log onto the Initiatives-Coeur YouTube channel for more videos of the sailboat.
See all the videosThe 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
Built in 2010, Sam’s boat has had several famous skippers at the bar and has already won an impressive list of awards.
2012
2nd in the Vendée Globe
Armel Le Cléach(Banque Populaire)
flying the colours of Foncia
2014
2nd in the Transat
Jacques Vabre
Jérémy Beyou (Maître Coq)
2016-2017
1st in the Transat
New-york -Vendée
3nd in the Vendée Globe
Jérémy Beyou (Maître Coq)
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
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
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.
Transat Jacques Vabre 2017: Tanguy de Lamotte and Sam Davies arrived in 6th place in Brazil.
Sam Davies is now the official skipper of the Initiatives-Coeur.
*Ardacha was operated on in 2016.
28 children saved
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