{"id":20301,"date":"2004-01-31T12:07:44","date_gmt":"2004-01-31T11:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/projet\/groupama-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:55:30","slug":"groupama-2","status":"publish","type":"projet","link":"https:\/\/www.vplp.fr\/en\/racing\/groupama-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Groupama 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Groupama\u00a02<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was <\/span><b>the last ORMA class trimaran to be built<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>the most titled.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Skippered by Franck Cammas, she won most of the Grand Prix from her launch in 2004 until the end of the ORMA circuit, as well as the Transat Jacques Vabre in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10770\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10770\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/01\/orma-groupama-2-franck-cammas-768x500-1.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"702\" height=\"456\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Groupama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The challenge was to leverage the emerging technologies of the time to optimize hull shapes and structures using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and the finite element method. The aim was to build the first 60\u2019 trimaran weighing less than six tonnes. 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