Jérémie BEYOU CHARAL

4th participation
FR
46 years old
Larmor-Plage (56)
Jérémie Beyou has never been afraid of being a forerunner. Without waiting to see what the competition would do, he chose to quickly start the construction of his new IMOCA, Charal. Launched in 2018, his monohull was able to benefit from an additional year of preparation. A year during which Jérémie Beyou’s team worked at erasing the teething problems of the boat, making the systems more reliable and, most of all, sailing, again and again. A year after its launch, ... Read more
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IMOCA monohull
CHARAL
First IMOCA of the new generation built, Charal contrasts radically with his predecessors. Relatively narrow, the monohull was designed to spend as much time as possible “flying”. During his first trips at sea, the VPLP plan showed an impressive potential, proving a new threshold had been crossed in the design of these boats. However, it took almost a year for Jérémie and his team to fully get to grips with this new machine which behaves differently than usual boats. The Fastnet revealed the possibilities of these new generation monohulls. The Transat Jacques Vabre will be a first large scale test to measure the efficiency of the concept over time.
CHARAL
- Sail number : 08
- Architect: VPLP
- Construction: CDK Technologies
- Launch Date: 18 August 2018
- Length: 18,28 m
- Beam: 5,85 m
- Draught: 4,50 m
- Weight: 8t
- Number of drifts: foils
- Mast height: 29 m
- Keel blade: acier
- Upwind sail area: 320 m2
- Downwind sail area: 600 m2
Press contact
Isabelle Delaune
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