IMOCA Open 60 - Vendée Globe 2016/17 - Les Sables d'Olonne FRA - Alan Roura SUI

Friday, October 21, 2016   
 IMOCA Open 60  Vendee Globe 2016/17  Les Sables d'Olonne FRA  Alan Roura SUI
Land-locked Switzerland has been represented in almost all Vendée Globes so far. Dominique Wavre SUI and Bernard Stamm SUI caught the attention not only of sailing addicts but also the general public with good results and unfortunately also with equipment failures and abandonments. With Alan Roura SUI, age 23, a new generation oceanic solo sailor, is about to start to his first solo circumnavigation. The Geneva boat-builder is the youngest among the 29 participants. His Open 60 was built in 2000 by Bernard Stamm SUI who sailed twice the Around-Alone - the solo-round-the-world in legs - as winner. The objective of Alan Roura SUI with his 'La Fabrique' is above all to finish the race. With his old-generation Open60, he will have no chance to keep the speed of the new Foiler-Open60s. Roura is now in the final preparations in Sables d'Olonne. Here his video, his website and the official presentation of the Swiss skipper.


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