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Designing the Future – Guillaume Verdier to create new One Design racing yacht for Volvo Ocean Race
France’s Guillaume Verdier to lead new design project for 14th edition, with Persico Marine selected as lead boatbuilder
– France’s Guillaume Verdier to lead new design project for 14th edition, with Persico Marine selected as lead boatbuilder
– Monohull-multihull question to be resolved in coming weeks
– New boat is part of radical shake-up of race to be announced 18 May, in Volvo’s home town of Gothenburg, Sweden
While final preparations and team announcements continue for the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18, the event’s leadership team are working in parallel to map out the race’s future. The edition after this one, the 14th, will be contested in brand new One Design racing yachts designed by France’s Guillaume Verdier and built under the direction of the Persico boatyard in Italy, race organisers announced today.
Verdier has joined the Volvo Ocean Race Design Team and is currently working with the race on the crucial issue of whether the new boat will be a monohull or multihull. The final decision on the proposed designs will be announced on 18 May at an event in Gothenburg, the home of the race’s owners and title sponsors Volvo.
Verdier is the ‘quiet’ achiever who has been involved in most of the leading designs right across the sport in recent years – from giant multihulls like Gitana’s Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, to be launched in July, through Team New Zealand’s current America’s Cup flying multihulls to maxi-monohulls like Comanche, and the leading Vendée Globe IMOCA 60 foiling projects such as Hugo Boss and Banque Populaire VIII.




