Actualités

One month after her dismasting, the IMOCA Fortinet – Best Western is back on the water. After fitting the mast last Thursday, and the boom and sails on Friday, it was time to get back out on the water to check that everything was working properly! Yesterday, we sailed for the first time to validate […]

Bouncing back from failure is essential for any sportsman, but also for life in general. Failure is part of the game, and I’ve experienced a few in my career as a skipper. They taught me so many things, and pushed me to always strive to surpass myself. I remember one race during the Solitaire du […]

Eleven days after dismasting during the Défi Azimut, we found a replacement mast for the IMOCA Fortinet – Best Western. I owe this small miracle to Maxime Sorel, skipper of V and B – Monbana – Mayenne, and his partners, who spontaneously offered to help me by making their spare mast available. A very generous […]

We’ve got a mast! And it’s arriving in Lorient on Tuesday! I can only thank Maxime Sorel, skipper of V and B – Monbana – Mayenne, and his partners for this small miracle. They called me the day after the accident to offer me their replacement mast. A gesture of enormous generosity just a few […]

Last Friday, September 13, at 3:13 am, the IMOCA Fortinet-Best Western skippered by Romain Attanasio dismasted on the Défi Azimut off Lorient. This was a major blow for the sailor, less than two months before the start of the Vendée Globe in Les Sables d’Olonne. Barely had the boat been moored, and the team was […]

At 3:30 a.m. on Friday, September 13, the IMOCA Fortinet-Best Western dismasted while in thirteenth place in the 48h Défi Azimut race. Led by skipper Romain Attanasio, the boat was approaching the « Hervé Laurent » waypoint. On board, the skipper accompanied by Adrien Bernard (Boat Captain) and Richard Mardens (OBR) are doing well. Together […]

This week, the competition resumes in Lorient! The IMOCA Fortinet – Best Western is taking part in the now unmissable Défi Azimut. This is an important event, as it is the last IMOCA race before the start of the Vendée Globe. On the program: speed runs on Wednesday in Lorient harbor, the start of the […]

After a month and a half in the yard, the IMOCA Fortinet – Best Western was relaunched yesterday in Lorient, ready to tackle the final stretch before the Vendée Globe. For 7 weeks this summer, the Fortinet – Best Western team has been busy taking care of the IMOCA. Dismantled, cleaned and inspected, every part […]

How do you prepare to sail around the world, single-handed, non-stop and unassisted? That’s the question Bertrand Parent asked me over a year ago now, and believe it or not, it took us 160 pages to answer it! It’s a secret project we’ve been working on for many months, in collaboration with Les Editions Glénat, […]