The Crowd at La Trinite sur Mer
First of all… La Trinite is a pretty small and cozy coastal town in Brittany with a beautiful harbor surrounded by seaside shops, restaurants and boating related businesses. Private homes are tucked up into the trees along the shore. The highest elevation in town tops out at 40 feet, or so, above sea level. You’d just never imagine that there is a fairly hefty collection of the most exotic, state of the art sailing machines sitting within the safety of its moorings, but there they are.
As of this writing, the highest of high end fully seaworthy maxi multihulls are represented by the nearly twin trimaran designs from Nigel Irens and Benoit Cabaret in the form of Francis Joyon’s, World Record holding IDEC and Thomas Coville’s Sodeb’O. These two trimarans are nothing short of pure wonderment as they sit quietly on their mooring lines while representing totally coiled power that takes them to frightening speeds when under sail in the hands of a talented and experienced skipper.
They sit about a hundred yards apart in the harbor, staring across the water at one another as if to say, “Yeah, dude, what have you got?” I’ll touch on both these boats in my next post, but there are other distractions for a sailor at La Trinite that should be described before I get carried away with the globe shredding multihulls.
Posted: September 11th, 2008 under Uncategorized.
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