12 April 2012
OMAN SAIL in floating MODe!
Now we are six. The latest in the MOD70 series Oman Sail was
launched today Thursday, April 12 in front of a very excited,
expectant team.Less than eight months from the commitment of the
Sultanate of Oman to the Multi One Championship to the actual
launch of their new one-design trimaran today, at the helm is
Sidney Gavignet, one of the most international of French sailors
! The team took ownership of OMAN SAIL, their MOD70 today,
setting out on the first stage of learning and training process
which over the coming weeks will lead to the inaugural event of
the 2012 championship season, the KRYS OCEAN RACE, which starts
in less than three months.
Behind the name, OMAN SAIL pulls together a large, comprehensive
project implemented under the leadership of the Sultanate of
Oman, which aims to develop tourism and to highlight and expand
the historic maritime tradition.
The one-design trimaran OMAN SAIL is a key aspect of this project
: taking on international competition on different seas.
Complementing, this, closer to home sailing schools are emerging
throughout the territory.
Sidney Gavignet, skipper of the MOD70 OMAN SAIL, comments : "The
OMAN SAIL project is very close to my heart and the support
itself is a real honor. The idea of ??the Sultanate is to create
a sailing industry which works in parallel to the business of
tourism to develop jobs. Within our team, there are Omani
sailors who are opening up to the challenges of the maritime
world. Today our story continues with the launch of OMAN SAIL
and here together I see in the eyes of my teammates a whole lot
of emotion. This is a first for us all, a touching, important
moment in our history together."
On the sporting front, the crew of the MOD70 OMAN SAIL will use
the coming weeks to train, learning how to to take control of
their trimaran and at the same time to continue the selection of
the crew who will participate in the KRYS OCEAN RACE. However,
Sidney and his crew are not starting with a completely blank
page as they have already taken the opportunity to complete two
sessions of workouts aboard another MOD70,&xnbsp; Race For Water.
Sidney Gavignet : "OMAN SAIL is undoubtedly the new kid of this
fleet as it is the latest and newest boat to be launched before
the KRYS OCEAN RACE. We still actually only have a little less
than three months of preparation. However, we sailed in Race for
Water completed a short apprenticeship, learning the ropes
recent weeks. We will now continue this learning aboard OMAN
SAIL. Soon we plan to be training from Port La Forêt with Foncia
and Edmond de Rothschild Group in two weeks and then to follow
up a training week off comprising some night sails, all the time
logging crucial performance data. Certainly, other teams at the
moment are more experienced but our OMAN SAIL crew are good. Our
goal for this first race is to finish it and do our best to be
in the best possible place. "
10 July 2012
Launch of MOD70 N°06
PAPREC-VIRBAC 70
7 July 2012
KRYS OCEAN RACE
OFFICIAL START
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