Vendée Globe: to every team their goal
With 13 boats taking the starting line, including 9 designed in collaboration with Guillaume Verdier, VPLP Design will once again be well represented in the Vendée Globe when it gets underway on 10 November for this, it’s tenth edition. Ambitions vary depending on the skippers and the generations of IMOCAs. Now that the Défi Azimut-Lorient […]
GP70: Ocean cruising equilibrium
Are speed and comfort compatible with a blue-water catamaran? That’s the question the GP70 was designed to answer. Mathias Maurios, Partner Naval Architect and head of VPLP’s Cruising Division, explains how this atypical sailboat is pioneering a new concept. “We started out with the demanding specifications of the owner who wanted a fast, high-performance ocean-going […]
The innovative ecodesign of les P’tits Doudous
The hull and the deck of Les P’tits Doudous have just come out of their moulds at the Duqueine Atlantique shipyard. To mark this important stage in the construction of Armel Tripon’s new IMOCA, Quentin Lucet, Partner Naval Architect at VPLP Design, and Katia Merle, structural engineer and ecodesign specialist, talk us through the firm’s collaboration with the Nantes-based skipper since 2021. […]
VPLP and the digital revolution
From the early HP 85 computers of yesteryear to SYD, the digital simulator of today, a prominent factor in the story of VPLP Design involves mastering tools which are continuously evolving. Founders Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost tell us more. When Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost graduated from Southampton University, where they had […]