{"id":20309,"date":"1998-01-31T16:26:33","date_gmt":"1998-01-31T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2024.vplp.fr\/projet\/douce-france\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T17:22:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:22:43","slug":"douce-france","status":"publish","type":"projet","link":"https:\/\/www.vplp.fr\/en\/cruising\/douce-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Douce France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At her launch in 1998, after almost a decade in design and construction, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Douce France<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was <\/span><b>the world\u2019s largest cruising catamaran<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with an LOA of 138\u2019 (42\u00a0m) and a beam of 50\u20196\u201d (15.4\u00a0m), a record now held by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hemisphere<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10853\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vplp.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/1998\/01\/catamaran-voile-douce-france-min-768x593-1.jpg\" alt=\" width=\"700\" height=\"541\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Exmar Yachting<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At that time, it was a veritable technological challenge to build a schooner <\/span><b>in aluminium<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including the masts and spars. She was <\/span><b>voted the most innovative sailing catamaran<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ShowBoats<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> magazine during the 1999 Monaco Yacht Show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Douce France (Agents TVC)\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oPpgMswe0hQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thanks to her powerful mainsail and foresail, which have a combined surface area of 400\u00a0m\u00b2, she can easily reach a cruising speed of <\/span><b>15 knots<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 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