Alex Thomson - talented IMOCA skipper Hugo Boss - likes to do the show with his boat. With his sponsor, he makes videos in which he achieves spectacular feats.
In 2012, he climbs on the 4.5 m long keel of his 60-foot Open while it is maintained at a heel angle of 45 to 70 degrees.
In 2017, he travels the 30 m that separates him from the top of his mast while the boat is tilted at 60 degrees before diving 12 m lower.
The skipper of Hugo Boss - whose new IMOCA should be launched recently - recently made a name for himself in a new video. Here, no spectacular or sensational, but pretty images of sliding.
In Cozumel, a Mexican island in the Caribbean Sea below Cancun, Alex Thomson and his team will race against two of the world's best kitesurfers. Fred Hope and Sam Light, two young Americans from the Slingshot team (kite wing brand) are delighted to lend themselves to the game, on their hydrofoil kite capable of taking off from 15 knots of wind and reaching an average speed of 25 knots.
It was therefore on a beautiful sunny day with a trade wind blowing at 20/22 knots that the competition was launched, on a course wet between four buoys. So who will win the compétition?? Kitesurfers capsize from spikes to 30 knots or an IMOCA capable of spiking to over 35 n?uds??
