Sodebo Maxi trimaran relaunched after refit, Thomas Coville goes on standby from October 15th for next solo round the world record attempt

From the following article (in French) on the Sodebo website:

http://www.sodebo.fr/voile/actualites/article/maxi-trimaran-sodebo-fait-rentree

and the rough bing translate below:

04/09/2013

The maxi-trimaran Sodebo makes his comeback!

 

As nearly 12 million children, the maxi-trimaran Sodebo has made its back to school Tuesday to La Trinité-sur-Mer. After a little more than two months of summer construction, the giant went to water under the eyes of her skipper Thomas Coville, eager to return to the bar after first part of season devoted to the monohull on Sodebo M34. In the program, a month of training and navigations press before the start of the stand-by for the Record of the round the world single-handed on October 15 in Brest.

 

Sunny, light breeze, conditions were ideal Tuesday for the launching of the maxi-trimaran Sodebo. An always tricky to carry and grüter a trimaran of 31 meters long and 16.55 meters wide on the 200 meters separating the base Sodebo to Multipole de Saint-Philibert of the launching slipway! Well established in fiscal, Sodebo team carefully orchestrated maneuvers. : matting, establishment of the appendages, sails, the operation requires a half day's work. Once the boat in his element and moored in her home port of La Trinité-sur-Mer, the relief was visible within the team. « It is always important upgrade water! . Is there any part now... "We are en route to the world ' launches Thomas Coville, who went to recharge your batteries in the mountains this summer. " This allowed me to be physically away from the boat and devote myself solely to my athletic preparation. This makes the property change of air which has not prevented me serenely project on some World Tour key passages. »

 

A review site.

If the maxi-trimaran Sodebo has changed since the last attempt of the Record of the round the world single-handed from 2010/2011 - 2012 winter site had allowed forward floats and change the position of the foils - this summer, no significant changes, but rather a general up check. " This remains a consistent construction because it takes a lot of time to remove, check and reassemble all the parts one by one ," said Elie Canivenc, technical manager of Team Sodebo. " We especially worked on the sails in the spring and we were sharper on some details with the arrival of Loïc Le Mignon. We come to maturity, the boat is really as I wanted to, as I imagined. "Adds Thomas.

 

A busy comeback!

As of Thursday, the maxi resumes the sea for first adjustments and calibration of electronic navigation. An output which will be followed by two sessions of 36 h at sea, crew and 'fake-solo"Thomas Coville will perform with Jean-Luc Nélias his router during the World Tour. The skipper will also host the media aboard her for a ten days before devoting only Solitaire.  The maxi-trimaran Sodebo and the team will be standby on October 15 at the Port of the castle in Brest where will leave the 4th attempt at the Record in Thomas Coville solo World Tour.