This a typical example of successful "medical" intervention that we like to proceed.

Dominique Wavre called us after the 2002 Route du Rhum for different pains that his boat suffered in which a general mis-balance that affected speed and good control.

Our intervention has consisted mainly of first re-setting up a new sail-chart (that we call "gear-box" distribution), notably by correcting a forestay position, then to adapt the underwater wings plans to carry optimally the side forces : re-orientation of the daggerboards, re-shaping of the fin-keel and of the bulb, and brand new multihull-type rudders, structurally engineered by dyne and finely built by ZR.

Our main satisfaction is that besides these interventions have boosted the boat in term of speed, the safety in strong conditions has been reinforced by insuring all the time to the skipper (and the pilots !) a good control of the trajectory, look :
"I stayed 7 or 8 hours in surviving mode, with 4 reefs in the mainsail and the big trinquette (60 m2) forward which relieved well the boat and prevented her to be taken too much by the breaking waves. These was moments of enormous tension, with a wind between 50 and 60 kts and the huge noise of the sea. Just frightening.
I was inside with the remote control of the pilot in hand. My big rudders revealed themselves as remarquable. Of course, the boat has been put down by the breaking waves, but she's always kept a very healthy behaviour. That was almost a jubilation !"
Dominique Wavre racing the Vendee Globe, Thursday 16. December 2004 in the storm north west of the Kerguelen islands.

More informations:

www.dominiquewavre.com

www.vendeeglobe.org

www.dyne.ch