The Ocean Race 2025 : L'Équipe IMOCA Qui Change la Donne Stand As One
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00:00Je suis très différent de ceux d'autres, je n'ai pas fait un Figaro ou l'Olympique, je n'ai pas fait ça, je suis plus un aventurier que ça, mais je suis un compétiteur aussi, ma strength est que je suis très différent de eux.
00:23Comment est-ce que le bateau est différent ?
00:29First, c'est un non-foiler, un nouveau bateau, ce qui est vraiment incroyable, parce que pour cette race, il y a 14 nouveaux imokas, et il y a seulement deux imokas sans foils, celui-ci et Jean Le Cam.
00:48C'est un co-design, donc le bateau est assez wilde, c'est comme ça, comme un bullet, le bateau était plus comme des triangles.
01:02Le bateau est vraiment comme un catamaran, et c'est assez light, c'est plus de 1 tonneau que les autres foils.
01:10Et le bateau est très simple, très, très simple. T-foils ou dagger boats, comme vous préférez, c'est le plus simple imokas que vous pouvez faire.
01:23C'est ce que nous intéressons avec ce bateau, c'est la vitesse moyenne. C'est ce que nous avons besoin pour les races.
01:30Donc le bateau ne va jamais aller à 40 knots, nous ne voulons pas ça.
01:36Parce que la main chose n'est pas de briser quelque chose.
01:40Nous voulons avoir une très forte, qu'est-ce qu'on appelle « fiable » en anglais ?
01:46« Trustworthy »
01:48« Reliable »
01:49« Reliable »
01:50« Reliable boat.
01:52Il a été construit pour être très simple, très light.
01:59Et le CO2 print, c'est moins de 32% que les autres nouveaux boats.
02:11Donc je pense que ce bateau est vraiment fait pour l'ocean racer.
02:15« Stand as one »
02:16« Stand as one »
02:17« What does that refer to ? »
02:18« Stand as one »
02:20« Actually, it's a song.
02:22A song by Matt Bastard.
02:24« Everybody »
02:25« Stand as one »
02:27« It's a song about how we can be all different and live together.
02:32I have been building those projects for 25 years,
02:37and all those projects are about human diversity.
02:41We are all different, but we can act like just one person,
02:46so we can stand as one.
02:48For me, to go to the ocean race is a big challenge.
02:51First of all, we have to promote the race with our sponsors.
02:57There is a big logistic topics and money to find.
03:03But I think that it's pretty clear that there is a big value for this race.
03:10And that's why there are so many crew very interesting in the race.
03:14It gives a really complete project to offer to companies.
03:19It's quite a different philosophy.
03:22No, it looks quite different to a lot of the other new generation,
03:26the foiling Immokas.
03:27First of all, the Immokas, the cockpit is open.
03:31I don't want to be like in a submarine.
03:34So this is open.
03:36So for sure, there are water coming.
03:38That's why we have protection like this.
03:40But yeah, I wanted to be able to go and see the sea.
03:44And we have room.
03:48It's very basic.
03:50Four winches.
03:52So this is your chair where you...
03:54Yes, this is the chair where I work.
03:57It's like very minimal.
03:59Yes, and the electricity consumption is like six or seven amperes per hour.
04:08It's twice less than the other boats.
04:13We have solar panels.
04:15We have hydrogenerators.
04:19And we consume very few electricity.
04:23So for example, the screen is very, very small.
04:28Everything is simple.
04:29And that is the most difficult thing to do.
04:33Because complexity is easy.
04:37But simplicity is really difficult to do.
04:41So a lot of the other guys have now very fancy, sophisticated carbon chairs.
04:46Yeah.
04:47With suspension and everything.
04:48Because they need it.
04:49And you have a very...
04:50Yeah.
04:51Well, it looks very basic.
04:52Yeah.
04:53They do need very complex chairs because it's difficult for them to live in those boats.
04:59Because the boat flies and smash on the water, etc.
05:04We don't do that.
05:06So life on board is much easier than on the other boats.
05:10And so that's why I can have this type of chairs.
05:14I've got a very good bed.
05:17And how about converting this boat to have a crew?
05:20Yes.
05:21How would that be?
05:22I think it would be pretty easy because there is room.
05:26There is room everywhere.
05:28So yes, for five people there is no problem.
05:31I don't feel okay for me to sail around the world without seeing the sea.
05:39I need it.
05:40And you know, sometimes the noise inside is so awful.
05:46Sometimes you need to go outside and say, okay, it's not the war.
05:52You know?
05:53And I want to see the sun.
05:55I want to...
05:56And I say that it's not always possible because there is very often a lot of water on the deck.
06:02But I want to have this possibility to go outside.
06:05I need it.
06:06I mean, your route to professional sailing, to professional racing is not the normal route.
06:11You have a bit of a different route.
06:12So could you explain a bit like what your background is and what your route to the Vendée
06:19and hopefully to the ocean races?
06:21Yes.
06:22I first sailed around the world with 45 young disabled people who had cerebral palsy.
06:28That was my first adventure.
06:30So three years around the world with 45 disabled people.
06:33So it's what we're going to offer to the ocean race.
06:38It is the diversity aspect.
06:40I think the most important with the ocean race is human parts.
06:44I was very, very fan of this race because always it was about the people living in the
06:51on board with the crashing, the huge waves on their faces and all the problems they had
06:57on board and how they were able to fix it.
07:00I want to prove that my method is good at the best level.
07:06On the ocean race, it's a top.
07:09So it is interesting for me because it's a challenge I never experienced.
07:13I call it the sailor curse.
07:17all the greatest happiness I had in my life are at sea.
07:23So if I want to be as happy as I experienced before, I have to go back at sea.
07:30Let's go back at sea.