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october 11, 2022 - CDK Technologies

Route du Rhum – destination Guadeloupe: 15 CDK Technologies’ boats line up for the start!

Created in 1978 by Michel Etevenon, the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe has made a name for itself as the quintessential singlehanded transatlantic race with a legendary course spanning 3,542 miles (6,562 kilometres) between Saint Malo and Pointe-à-Pitre. On 6 November 2022, the 12th edition of the event will gather together 138 sailors in Saint Malo, divided up into six categories of sailboat. Sixteen of these boats (three Ultims, eleven IMOCAs and two Ocean Fiftys) benefit from the experience and expertise of the #cdktechnologies yard, which specialises in the construction of prototype yachts and whose productions have systematically monopolised all the most prestigious offshore racing podiums for over 35 years.

Eight maxi-trimarans rank among this year’s contenders. This clash of the titans – the first in solo configuration over a long format – is very eagerly awaited, particularly in light of the fact that two of these machines designed to circumnavigate the globe in solo configuration were only launched in 2021:

Armel Le Cléac’h’s 
CDK-U-05-2021 Maxi Banque Populaire XI* saw the entire project management and foil manufacture taken care of by #cdktechnologies, together with the key components (floats, beams and foils) of François Gabart’s CDK-U-06-2021 SVR Lazartigue (Trans-Mediterranean record holder).

Their performances between Brittany and Guadeloupe will obviously be examined in great detail. Yves Le Blévec’s CDK-U-03-2015 Actual Ultim 3, was also created across the yard’s two sites in Port-la-Forêt and Lorient in 2015.

This pioneering multihull has been the solo round the world record holder since 2017 (42 days 16 hours 40 minutes and 35 seconds) and was named winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre 2015, The Transat bakerly 2016 and then The Bridge that same year, and she is bound to continue fleshing out her successful track record, now in the colours of a group specialising in temping.

Further information in the press release to download