Following the damage to the link arm caused by the onslaught of waves at very high speed, former skipper Thomas Coville had a makeshift repair carried out to get back to sea.
But this temporary repair was carried out with the rigging loaded and the repair fixed the arm in the wrong geometry.
An atypical project
Whatever, in composite we can do anything, all we have to do is put our human and technical skills into it. So, Yves and his team will open the link arm, strengthen it and put it back in its lines.
He has gathered around him the right skills in structural calculation and manual execution. Thus, the Actual leader team includes in its team young talents in their respective professions: Jacques Delcroix in the design office and Florian Lafféach, composite specialist.
Jacques Delcroix dreamed of joining the design department of an offshore racing team
His curriculum was all set: sailing on any medium, school of naval architecture in Paris, diploma of the ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, an internship at the VPLP firm, and a year in a New Zealand shipyard.
This is enough to seduce Yves le Blevec's team to strengthen its team: "My role is to design all the systems, to be present on all the modifications of the boat, to be an interlocutor for the architects and the calculation office. We rely a lot on the experience of the technical team. There is a lot of exchange, it's very rich. "»
Florian Lafféach is the team's composite specialist
He is in direct contact with the design office, which designs custom carbon parts that he produces.
He masters all aspects of the composite work to be done on the Ultim to carry out arm repairs.
Florian joined Team Actual in 2017, in addition to his professional skills he brings to the team his communicative energy.
Today with the growth of the workforce he is responsible for a small team to give Ultim Actual all its potential speed and solidity.
