14 Setembro 2012 – 14h00 – Speed Trials Lisbon
15 Setembro 2012 – 14h00 – Cascais Race
Program
The Multi One Championship brings together the adventure of ocean races with the tension and drama of inshore races. Performance, speed and endurance are the winning combination in yacht races. Held within easy view of the public, the races of the Multi One Championship combine sport, spectacle and suspense, within the heart of the leading economic capitals.
Ocean World Tour
Every 3 years – 5 to 6 stopovers – crew races
European Tour
Every year – 6 to 8 stopovers – crew races
KRYS OCEAN RACE
Transatlantic races – crew races
The official program will be defined in collaboration with the title partner.
History
In the beginning, an encounter and an initial commitment:
In 2008, the director of a company based in Switzerland’s Vaud region, Marco Simeoni, had just created the holding company Veltigroup and was just looking for an appropriate means of communicating when he got to know Swiss skipper, Stève Ravussin. From this encounter came the fitting-out of an evolutionary catamaran at the heart of a Swiss championship. An endorsement followed and a Decision35 began to sport the colours of Veltigroup!
The revival of the oceanic multihull:
The 1980s represented the advent of the multihull with a number of fabulous projects, though all too often they were overambitious. From that point, all the protagonists were keen to redefine a framework with strict dimensions: it was the birth of the 60 foot multihulls; a class measurement which would then form a unity within a class known as ORMA (Ocean Racing Multihulls association), which was governed according to an open class measurement.
After 15 years of adventures offshore and following the Route du Rhum 2006, the ORMA class ended up undergoing massive change: changes of status, an evolution in the Board of Directors, the nomination of a new President, Patrick Chapuis, and an Executive chairman, Franck David.
It was at the start of the Vendée Globe 2008 that Stève Ravussin and Franck David, who has accompanied the former in his various sailing projects since 1999, presented the Multi One Design project to Marco Simeoni. Its ethos centred on completely identical oceanic multihulls.
The concept of everyone racing on an equal footing on the ocean planet appealed to the Swiss company director. Indeed the latter didn’t think twice about investing in and working on the idea, initially refining the overall concept by bringing an international and eco-friendly dimension to it! Marco Simeoni signed an order for five MOD70s, which was the starting point for “The Multi One Design Story…”.
Besides the sporting aspect, which the enthusiastic entrepreneur fully believes in, this committed man also saw in this class a means to promote an environmental notion which is dear to him. Marco thus added a prerequisite to the realisation of this project: the preservation of water.
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