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Trimaran owners since 1989 Groupe Banque Populaire listens to and is in tune with their skipper’s views as they continue their investment in the challenging world of ocean racing, seeking to share their combined love of the sea and sailing adventures with the widest possible audience, reflecting their a spirit of adventure, team work and bravery.

Having won the Transat Jacques Vabre, been multihull world Champion in 2005 and given everything to the Route du Rhumin 2006, Pascal BidГYgorry and Groupe Banque Populaire worked together to plan a future project in line with the Group’s passions and ambitions: it would have to be a maxi multihull with the potential to wash away all the current records.

Under the leadership Pascal BidГYgorry, skipper of the Banque Populaire trimarans since 2004, the crew of the Maxi Banque Populaire V embarks on an ocean records campaign ready to challenge the oceans. In 2009, with a crew of 13, it will attempt to beat the established records on the North Atlantic crossing (New York to the Lizard, England) and the Jules Verne Trophy(Ushant вІ Ushant via the three great capes).

Banque Populaire V, the largest ocean racing trimaran in the world, was launched in August 2008 in Lorient (Brittany вІ France). Built at sites in Cherbourg, La Rochelleand Lorient, the construction of the maxi trimaran took 250 000 man hours of work, utilising a total workforce of some 170 people.

Banque Populaire V (Photo by BENOIT STICHELBAUT/BFBP)

The Maxi Trimaran Banque Populaire V on a conquest of the oceans : The North Atlantic crossing Record

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