Jean-Charles Corre & Antoine Derv // French Multihull Racers
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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#26. You might not recognize their names, but Jean-Charles & Antoine have been at the top of the multihull game for some time, and I had the chance to chat with them in Bermuda during the ARC Europe stopover. Both guys are French through and through (and I love their accents), and the French are nuts about multihulls. They were commercial mariners and fisherman, respectively, but got invited to join the crew of Geronimo, a 110-foot trimaran that was purpose built to break all the speed-sailing records in the early 2000's. They were both onboard for much of the campaign, including the Jules Verne Trophy (63 days nonstop around the world), the trans-Pacific California to Japan record, the round Australia record and on and on. We spoke aboard the one-off VPLP-designed cat Tosca that had just sailed the 650 miles from Portsmouth, VA to Bermuda in 3 days (!), with a top speed of 18 knots. And this is a cruising boat...Jean-Charles & Antoine couldn't have been nicer hosts - two days later, they invited Mia and I onboard for an evening of wine and cheese and great conversation. Jean-Charles also got me in touch with Mathias Maurios, the actual designer of Tosca who works for VPLP in Paris, so I'll be having him on the podcast soon! Thanks guys!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to 59 degrees north with Andeshell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:05.5 | Greetings, greetings. Welcome back to the 59 degrees north sailing podcast. It's Andy here. |
| 0:11.2 | A beautiful afternoon in Bermuda. I'm knocking out a couple intros here. I've got a few podcasts in the bank right now. |
| 0:16.8 | So I'm doing a few intros back to back. This is episode number 26. |
| 0:21.6 | And we actually have a new sponsor this week, ATN Inc. |
| 0:25.8 | My good friend Etienne Girwa, which I'm sure I'm butchering his last name. |
| 0:30.7 | So my apologies. |
| 0:32.1 | But Etienne and I met in Chicago a few years back at the Chicago Boat Show. |
| 0:36.6 | And everybody has at least seen some of the |
| 0:38.8 | gear that he sells. He was a single-handed sailor. I actually had him on the podcast a few weeks |
| 0:43.7 | ago, one of my favorite episodes yet. So check him out on the podcast at the end. You'll find it on |
| 0:49.6 | the website. But anyway, ATN, Inc., his namesake company, basically makes, it sort of invented and perfected the Spinnaker sleeve. |
| 0:59.8 | So if you've ever used a Spinnaker sock to douse an asymmetrical shoot or a symmetrical shoot, it probably came from ATN. |
| 1:06.6 | He also makes the masked climber system to elize to hoist yourself up to the top of the mast without somebody cranking on the winch. |
| 1:15.0 | Pretty cool. |
| 1:15.5 | I'm actually, he's sending me one of those very shortly. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm going to take to our boat for the summer in Sweden. |
| 1:20.7 | So those are the two most well-known products. |
| 1:23.0 | He also makes the tacker for an asymmetrical spinnaker that goes on the, um, over the, |
| 1:27.5 | uh, furled genoa on the bow to ease that whole process of jibing an asymmetrical spinaker. |
| 1:33.6 | And he does nets for catamaran's. |
| 1:36.0 | So a lot of the production cats coming out of France have ATN nets on them. |
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