French Sailing Legend and Artemis Helmsman Loïck Peyron takes on BAADS!
The SBYC AC34 Committee in partnership with BAADS is honored to host Loïck Peyron in a festive gathering connecting the BAADS Awareness Regatta 2, and SBYC’s “Tour of the Teams” program. Join us as Loïck Peyron of Artemis Racing spends the day racing with BAADS Sailors while promoting “inclusive sailing” on board the largest fleet of Liberty Access and 303s in the United States. Loïck’s enthusiasm and admiration for the BAADS dinghy racing program is captivating and is sure to make this day memorable! Mark your calendar, Saturday May 25, 2013.
While the details and times are still being honed to a fine point, we anticipate the day to generally proceed as follows:
Saturday, May 25, 2013
11am-4pm: Skippers meeting 11am at Pier 40 – Dinghy dock. First gun at 1pm.
Approx. 4:30pm: Awareness Regatta 2 Recognition Ceremony
Followed by a casual mixer with Loïck, BAADS, and SBYC members. Admission $15.00
6pm -7pm: Q&A with Loïck
Registration for this event will open on May 15th , will be required, and availability is limited.
Event contacts: SBYC – Lisa Gidley (ac34committee@southbeachyachtclub.org)
BAADS – Fernanda Castelo (Fernanda.castelo@baads.org)
A Bit About Loïck
(From his Facebook Page – facebook.com/loickpeyron)
Loïck Peyron is one of the race pillars in France: the “Last Mohicans” as he likes to say not without humor. He started sailing in La Baule Bay (France) and when he reached 18, he enters his first Atlantic Ocean crossing race: the Mini-transatlantic race 79, alone on a 6,50meter boat!
More than forty Atlantic Ocean crossings later and with a phenomenal prize list, Loïck keeps intact his passion for the sea and the ships, small and big. Whether it is beside an architect or behind the helm, the one who is unmistakably a member of the most brilliant French sailors is always thirsty of discoveries and challenges.
Loïck is a passionate person and curious of all, meticulous, innovative and endowed with an exceptional talent recognized by his peers, he makes it a point of honor to look ceaselessly the “most” which will make the “difference”.
Historic performance in May 2008: he won for the third time the English Transatlantic race, this mythical transatlantic race between Plymouth and Boston; and this time in a monohull under Gitana Eighty team.
High-tech, gladly talkative manager, livened up by a real envy to pass on his knowledge to the “Land Men” when he pace up and down the planet, the man is nevertheless more secret than we can imagine. Loïck took magnitude and gravity cultivating this faculty to stay up the past while looking towards the future.
From 2006 to 2009, Loïck was the Manager and Skipper of the Gitana Team and in February 2010 he was the Co-helmsman of the Alinghi catamaran to defend the America Cup 33. Loïck raced, under the colors of the Sultanate of Oman, the 2009-2010 catamarans X40 circuit as helmsman of Masirah Oman Sail, then the D35 circuit in Switzerland at helmsman of Okalys-Corum and finally he won the Barcelona Race with Jean-Pierre Dick in spring 2011 with Virbac-Paprec boat.
Loïck is the “Man” of the first races: Mini Transat, Route du Rhum (France-Antilles), Quebec St-Malo, Vendée Globe, Europe Tour, the “Race”, D35 circuit, Clairefontaine Trophies…
In 2011,after several months of intensive training and record-breaking runs on the maxi-catamaran Banque Populaire V, Loïck and his crew attacked the prestigious Trophee Jules Verne record with incredible results, sailing around the world in an impressive 45 days 13 hours 42 minutes 53 seconds. All this while also helming the Energy Team AC45 for the America’s Cup World Series, leading them to victory in the AC World Series in Naples in 2012. Loïck focus now turns to victory of the Cup as Co-helmsman for Sweden’s Artemis Racing.
Loïck has an outstanding prize list as follows:
48 crossings of the Atlantic Ocean among which 18 races in solo
4 World Tours
5 championships ORMA
16 victories in Grand Prix
3 victories on the solo English Transatlantic race
2 victories on the Transatlantic race Jacques Vabre in 1999 and 2005
2 victories on the Lighthouses Race, 8 victories on the Europe Tour, 7 victories on the Clairefontaine Trophies, 2 victories on the Golden Bowl…
French Honorifics: Officer of “Légion d’Honneur” and of “Ordre National du Mérite”, Maritime Merit.