Realisations

Racing multihulls and America’s Cup Class yachts

No other boatyard can claim to so much success in competition as Multiplast. Some of the most prestigious racing multihulls have left the workshops or the drawing boards of the Gilles Ollier Design Team. They are Crédit Agricole III, the incredible series of Jet Services I, II, IV & V, Elf Aquitaine II & III, Commodore Explorer, Région Haute Normandie II and Biscuits La Trinitaine II for the first generation.

Orange II, the most high performance sailing boat in the world

With the maxi-multihulls for The Race 2000/2001: Club Med, Innovation Explorer and Team Adventure, Multiplast offered itself the podium of the event and inscribed its name in the record book with Club Med in 2001, the fastest circumnavigation under sail in 62 days 6h 56min 33 sec and an average in excess of 18 knots (33 kph). Since then, Orange (ex-Innovation Explorer) has won the Jules Verne Trophy (April 2002), in June 2002, Maiden II (ex-Club Med) beat for the 3rd time since her launching, the world record for the distance sailed in 24 hours with 694,78 miles (average speed 28.94 knots).

At least, since her launch, Orange II has been the first sailing boat to cover 700 miles in 24 hours with 706.20 miles / average speed 29.42 knots. Thus, in 2005, she has registered the higher time reference around the world in 50d 16h 20' 04'' with an incredible average speed of 22.20 knots, knocking more than 7 days off the time set by Cheyenne in 2004 and quite 13 days off the time set by Geronimo in the Jules Verne Trophy. And Doha 2006 (ex Club Med) won one month later the Oryx Quest, RTW race non stop from Doha (Qatar) to Doha via capes Horn and Good Hope.

The list of multihulls is long, but Multiplast is not only content to stick with this category. Hi-tech monohulls have also been built by the yard like the first two French America's Cup Class yachts F1 and Ville de Paris. This America's Cup experience was renewed first of all with 6e Sens in 1998/99, then with LE DEFI AREVA for Auckland 2002/03.

For 6e Sens as with AREVA, the Gilles Ollier Design Team once again proved its capacity to adapt to the demands of other design teams. Indeed, Multiplast knows how to make available to outside design offices the technical potential and the experience of its own design office, the competence of its production teams and the experience of its managers who have all successfully completed hi-tech projects.