Groupama team and Franck Cammas commit to new programs for 2014 and beyond

From the following article on bymnews:

 

http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=126429

 

By renewing its trust and loyalty in Franck Cammas after his victory in the Volvo Ocean Race 2012, Groupama has enabled Groupama sailing team to continue on its quest for excellence in 2013. Still as determined as ever, the skipper of Groupama, Sailor of the Year 2013, is now setting his sights on 2014.

 

Triple Match Racing Champion of France, Champion of offshore racing and Olympic sailing, winner of the Tour de France à la Voile, the Semaine Olympique Française (French Olympic Week) and finally World C-Class Champion, Franck Cammas has scored a veritable full house in 2013, switching from one craft to another with the same degree of success and racking up 320 days on the water.

This expertise and the technological gain associated with this is naturally prompting Franck to get a good amount of racing under his belt in 2014 and thus be in phase with Groupama's dynamic: to get close to associates and clients again, to remain ambitious and finally to support research and innovation with the aim on performance.

 

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Martin Fischer and Will Howden video walkthrough of the Groupama C Class catamaran at the recent International C Class Catamaran Championship

http://sailinganarchy.com/2013/10/12/video-weekend/

International C-Class Catamaran Championship event in Falmouth, The French Groupama team take the ICCCC trophy

From the following article on the International C-Class Catamaran Championship website:

http://theflyingboats.com/future-meets-history-as-cammas-achieves-first-french-victory/

Mylor Harbour, UK [30 September 2013] –

With their carbon wings and slender hulls packed into boxes en route to a half-dozen different nations, it’s time to reflect on the 2013 International C-Class Catamaran Championship.

When Cogito emerged on the Little Cup scene back in 1996, her innovative edge-twisting wing proved a massive edge for Steve Clark and Duncan MacLane. Nearly 20 years later, Franck Cammas’ Groupama C showed a similarly game-changing innovation, her stable, simple foiling system helping to propel her to an easy 2-0 victory against Jeremy Lagarrigue’s Hydros. Cammas and crew Louis Viat would become first Frenchmen to ever hoist the International C-Class Catamaran Championship trophy.

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The full results for the 2013 Falmouth ICCCC regatta are here:

http://theflyingboats.com/race-results-2/



Franck Cammas and Louis Viat at speed on the Groupama C Class catamaran, photo courtesy Meredith Block