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Launched by Beneteau in 1990, Figaro is a range of single-handed one-design boats. The aim was to create a level playing field of boats for regatta racing . The boats offer high performance and great reliability. Sailing is a complex but extremely enjoyable affair. The boat is minimalist in terms of equipment, designed for the racing. The cockpits are very well designed with all manoeuvres possible from the helm position.

There are currently three models in the range, Figaro I , II and Figaro III launched in 2019 and the first yacht in the series with foils. Figaro III is a one-design model that is just as reliable as its predecessor, Figaro II, and has foils, a better-performing ballast-free hull, a narrower, deeper keel, a set-back mast and a bigger, more generous sail plan. The Beneteau Figaro circuit brings together the best French racing sailors to compete in ten or so races a year.

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Figaro Series: The hardest sailing race on the planet where money means nothing

• Matthew Sheahan
• July 28, 2020

The legendary Michel Desjoyeaux says the Figaro Series is the hardest race in the world. Matthew Shehan finds out why

The Figaro Series fleet makes an impressive sight at the start. Photo: Yvan Zedda

“This is the hardest race – not to win, just to do. Winning is something else,” says Michel Desjoyeaux. “For me, the Figaro is harder than the Vendée Globe .” It is a bold statement about an annual single-handed coastal series that involves four offshore legs of around 500 miles apiece, each designed to take around three to four days to complete. But when Desjoyeaux speaks, the solo sailing scene listens.

La Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year, attracted a big fleet of 47 entries, including a spectacular gathering of the most decorated and accomplished solo sailors, but is still a world apart from the 28,000-mile, non-stop, 100-day round-the-world marathon.

In France, the 54-year-old Desjoyeaux is a national hero. He is the only person to have won the Vendée Globe more than once, taking victories in 2001 and 2008. He is not alone in thinking that this is harder, though. There are plenty of other French A-list offshore sailors who point to winning the Figaro as their proudest moment.

Offshore legends (l to r) Loïck Peyron, Alain Gautier and Michel Desjoyeaux were reunited in the 2019 Figaro Series. Photo: Alexis Courcoux

“People always expect me to say that the Vendée Globe is my best victory,” said Alain Gautier, who won the solo around the world race in 1992. “For me, it’s not. Winning the first leg of the 1983 Figaro into Kinsale when I was 21 was my proudest moment as I crossed the line ahead of one of my sailing heroes, Philippe Poupon.”

A scroll down the list of winners in both events reveals a close connection between the two races. Five of the eight Vendée winners have been Figaro champions. All but one have been Figaro competitors. Both Desjoyeaux and Gautier have won the Figaro outright; Desjoyeaux three times from 13 events, Gautier once from 17. The numbers speak volumes. The bottom line is clear: winning the Figaro is always hard, no matter how many times you have tried.

“It took me nine editions of the race before I won it,” said three-time Figaro winner Jérémie Beyou, whose long-term project lies with the 2020 Vendée Globe aboard his radical new IMOCA 60 Charal . So why was he, and so many like him, back in a boat a fraction of the size he is used to, in a race that could deliver potentially embarrassing results?

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“This is a very special event,” he explains. “It is an irresistible challenge because the Figaro boats are identical and so you know how you are really doing compared to your competitors.

“It’s a very personal race and it’s very intense. There are times when you doubt yourself and want to give up. Times when you think: I’m better than this, I’m not happy with being so far behind, I don’t need this, I want to turn on the engine and head home. But every day is like this in the Vendée Globe. So the Figaro is good training for that. You have to learn to cope with the highs and lows.”

Others, like Gildas Morvan, have shown even more commitment to the Brittany-based race. With 22 races under his belt and six leg wins, he is one of the longest serving Figaro sailors, yet he has never won overall. “It’s hard to explain why it is such a big pull, but it is like a love affair,” he said.

Close quarters, tactical racing places big demands on the solo skippers. Photo: Alexis Courcoux

Event director Mathieu Sarrot has a different theory. “It’s a drug – a good drug, but one for masochists,” he says with a smile. While his work is ashore, he has followed 25 races, and is also clearly hooked.

Up against the world’s best

Going into the 2019 Figaro Series, top French star Yann Eliès had won the event three times from 19 attempts. “If you miss out racing for a season it takes years to get back to the front,” he says. “It takes a long time to get to the stage to be ready but just a few minutes to lose all your confidence. But for some it’s a brutal experience.

“In 1998 the first leg took six days. On the second leg, one boat sank near the coast and the skipper had to swim ashore and climb the cliffs with an injured arm, so this race can be very hard.”

Tanguy Le Turquais went hard aground in the Alderney Race aboard Queguiner . Photo: Alexis Courcoux

The 50th anniversary marked a step change for the event with a brand new boat, the Beneteau Figaro 3. At 10.85m long, the new VPLP -designed, production built monohull is roughly the same size as her predecessor, the Figaro 2, but she is significantly more powerful downwind.

Asymmetric spinnakers flown off a fixed bowsprit mark a move away from the conventional poles and symmetrical kites of the previous model that lasted 15 years. Plus, the new sailplan includes a Code 0.

But from the outside, the most obvious change is the retractable, curved daggerboards that extend out from the topsides like giant aquatic stabilisers, designed to provide righting moment on the leeward side at speed.

The 50th anniversary marked a step change for the event with a brand new boat, the Beneteau Figaro 3. Photo: Yvan Zedda

The combined effects of these changes, in addition to a more modern, faster hull form, has thrown conventional thinking out of the window. Far less is known about these boats than their predecessors, making it harder for skippers to plan their tactics and routing. Feel has become an important part of identifying the Figaro 3’s sweet spots.

“This is one of the reasons that there are so many top sailors this year,” offshore legend Loïck Peyron tells me. “We are like kids at Christmas with the new toys and we want to know what makes the new boats work. It’s also exciting to be discovering this at the same time as everyone else and it gives those of us who haven’t been in the Figaro for a long time a chance to see if we can beat the Figaro specialists.”

Alain Gautier agrees, and adds that the campaign costs also make this event and the new boat appealing. “Unlike an IMOCA campaign where a new boat is going to cost around €5 million, money doesn’t influence success in the Figaro class,” he said. “If you charter a boat you can do a season’s campaign for around €200,000 and be sailing against the world’s best.”

Tom Dolan on Smurfit Kappa took 2nd place in the rookie division. Photo: Alexis Courcoux

For the current Vendée Globe champion and local poster boy Armel Le Cléac’h , the new boat also means a return to some valuable hands-on training. “On the IMOCA and Ultime boats we rarely steer by hand, so the Figaro gives us the feel once again,” he explains.

“It’s easy to forget the feeling and how to achieve perfect balance aboard the big boats as there is so much else to control. Hand steering also puts you back in touch as you look at the clouds, feel the weather and the current.”

All of which has also helped to level the playing field this year across a fleet in which the skippers’ ages span almost 40 years. In general, there were two different approaches. The young guns were sailing by feel while using AIS to keep an eye on the big names to validate their own thinking. Meanwhile, the old hands were quick to adopt their own tried and tested offshore routines, yet they were also trying to unlearn what they knew made the Figaro 2 go quickly.

Helming for 24 hours

If the new boat was clearly one of the reasons for a big shake up in the results, the weather was another. The 545-mile opening leg from Nantes to Kinsale in Ireland saw Yoann Richomme, the 2018 Route du Rhum winner in the Class 40 fleet, take the first win, but only by one minute and 13 seconds ahead of Figaro rookie Tom Laperche.

Just under 22 minutes behind, Loïck Peyron was 6th. Three minutes further back Desjoyeaux was 8th. Then came Le Cléac’h in 11th. Such a closely packed fleet in an event which is all about aggregate time rather than points, is typical of this race. In previous events, seconds have often been the winning margin. Not this time…

The course for Leg 2 from Kinsale to Roscoff via the Isle of Man was changed at the last minute to avoid a forecast that included winds of up to 35-40 knots in the St George’s Channel. Instead, the fleet went east to Bishop Rock, then up to the Needles Fairway buoy to the west of the Isle of Wight, before then heading to the finish in Roscoff. But sending the fleet up the English Channel didn’t keep them sheltered.

“At one point we had a 40 knot squall that was only forecast to be 25 knots,” said Britain’s Will Harris, racing Hive Energy . “The big kite was up when the breeze hit and I wasn’t able to get it down. I’ve never dropped it in that kind of breeze and it would have been far too risky. So I ended up helming for 24 hours.

Jérémie Beyou took time out from his IMOCA 60 Charal to compete in the Figaro Series. Photo: Charal Sailing Team

“Fortunately, because I thought it would be a windy period, I’d packed my pockets with food and snacks as I knew I wasn’t going to get any hot food. But the worrying thing was that we were all heading straight towards the TSS exclusion zone. Luckily, in the end we just missed it by about a mile.”

The 26 year old from Surrey made a name for himself in his first Figaro in 2016, winning the rookie prize for the highest-placed newcomer. This year, he was frequently punching above his weight once again.

A fast learner, he only took up keelboat sailing five years ago, but after his 2016 performance the French professionals saw his talent and invited him to join Pôle Finisterre in Port-la-Forêt, regarded as one of the best training establishments in offshore race training.

Will Harris on Hive Energy crosses the finish line at Roscoff. Photo: Yvan Zedda

“I’ve spent the last six months living in Brittany, where I’ve been training with the likes of Yann Eliès, Armel Le Cléac’h and Michel Desjoyeaux,” he said. “It’s been incredibly useful. You have to be at a certain level before you can be a part of it, past the basics of navigation and avoiding rocks. You need to be looking at the finer details. It’s very intense training.

“You think that these sailors are untouchable and that they know all the answers, but they don’t, especially with this new boat. They still need to sleep, just like the rest of us, they’re just more efficient. And I learned it’s not simply about fitness. For example, I now have lists for everything so I don’t spend time fiddling around with settings, especially when I’m tired and not thinking as straight.”

Hitting the red zone

Sleep is a major topic in the Figaro. No one sleeps for more than 20 minutes at a time – they simply daren’t. The racing is so close and the difference between the performance of the boats so noticeable between the autopilot and hand steering that going for a kip costs places.

Loïck Peyron was drawn back to the event by the new boat, which he says is teaching him new tricks about trimming small boat. Photo: Yvan Zedda

“You’ve got to know your limits, when you’re in the red and, more importantly, when you’re about to hit the red,” says British sailor Alan Roberts. “The red zone is where you’re hallucinating, you’re talking to yourself, you’re imagining things are going on and you’re seeing things in the water.

“You’re so tired that when something comes over the radio you can’t string the words together to understand it and write it down. But you need to have been there to understand what you need to avoid because it’s hard to simulate.”

In a previous race it is said that one skipper woke up when his boat went aground on the sand. As he rushed up on deck he was convinced that he was doing a delivery with his girlfriend and panicked when he discovered that she wasn’t there.

Fearing that she had gone overboard, he dropped the sails, broke the seal on the engine and motored around and around to try and find her. The penny only dropped when he saw the dodger in the guardwires with the Figaro logo and his name on it.

Current Vendée Globe champion and Ultime skipper Armel Le Cléac’h was among the offshore rock stars to be back in an 11m monohull. Photo: Alexis Courcoux

By the time the fleet had arrived back in Roscoff, this time at the end of Leg 3, the cumulative effects of sleep deprivation meant that the effects of the red zone were starting to show through.

As skippers arrived at the dock, even the pros struggled to answer questions and left long pauses as they stared into the distance. If this had been any other major racing event you would put their behaviour down to team politics, diplomacy or mind games. But here, they were simply so tired, so mentally exhausted that thinking before speaking was a big effort.

Slowed by weed

Leg 3 had been long and, for many, frustrating with some major tidal gates. In particular, one at Alderney, where the infamous tidal race and a light breeze that was insufficient for the fleet to overcome the current, shut the door and only a handful made it through.

Weed was a big problem too. Carbon weed-flossing sticks were often insufficient to remove the clumps that wrapped around each yacht’s five foils. “At one point I had to stop the boat and go over the side to remove it as it had wrapped itself around the keel,” recalls Alain Gautier.

After a relentless and often windless Leg 3, the rankings were bad for many of the big names, now several hours off the pace. Overall race leader Yoann Richomme had lost 10 hours on this leg and saw his enormous lead hacked back to just 1hr 26 mins for the fourth and final leg. This would have been a decent margin by normal standards, but 2019 was turning out to be anything but normal.

For newcomers, a position on the podium was unlikely, but winning the rookie prize is a big first step in the Figaro. Even then, as an indication of just how different and difficult this event is, rookies aren’t always what you might think.

“On the face of it, with three round-the-world races under my belt including a Vendée Globe, it makes no sense to say that I’m a rookie. Yet for me the learning curve has been vertical,” said New Zealander Conrad Colman, who was racing Ethical Power .

“The reality is that, no matter where you have come from, be it the Vendée Globe, the Olympics or any other discipline within the sport, when you come to the Figaro for the first time you’re a rookie because you need to combine so many different types of racing. This year there were 11 rookie sailors.

The event is dominated by the French and while international sailors do take part, learning the language and the culture make the challenge of competing even tougher.

The 2019 Figaro Series in numbers 4 legs 2,130 miles 47 entrants 6 nationalities 11 rookies

Big commitment

“The hard fact is that if you want to be even remotely competitive in the Figaro you have to come to France, you have to live here, you have to get involved with one of the training centres and you have to change your phone number to +33,” says former Figaro sailor and professional project manager Marcus Hutchinson of Vivi Resources.

“It requires a big commitment; you’ve got to be here full-time. To reflect this challenge and to encourage those who do make the commitment we have provided a new perpetual trophy this season, the Vivi trophy, which is for the first international skipper.”

As Leg 4 played out, there was continual intensity in a 500-mile needlematch across the Channel from Roscoff to the finish in Dieppe. The tactical challenges of working along the UK’s south coast with its notorious tidal gates and tricky headlands were made even tougher by a mixture of light winds, squalls, thunder, lightning, rain and fog.

Within the 47-boat fleet, the battles between the newcomers and some of the world’s most accomplished sailors continued to rage. La Solitaire Urgo Le Figaro is like a one-design dinghy race, played out on a coastal course. Everyone knows it’s tough. There is no shame in being at the back; everyone has been there.

Yoann Richomme sailing HelloWork-Telegram Group pulled out an 11-hour lead only to see it hacked back to just over one hour after Leg 3. Photo: Alexis Courcoux

And be they rookies or rock stars, Desjoyeaux speaks for them all when he sums up the Figaro: “This is the best offshore school in the world. The one who wins will be the one who makes the least mistakes.”

And the winner is…

By the end of the final leg, the Figaro had at last played to form, with the bulk of the fleet finishing within one hour. But no one was able to eat into Yoann Richomme’s leading margin, giving the French skipper, also the 2016 overall winner, another Figaro victory.

“I am really moved. I never thought I’d win two. This was a really tough event,” he said. Meanwhile, British sailor Alan Roberts took the Vivi Trophy for the first international skipper, and Benjamin Schwartz earned the top rookie prize.

This article was first published in the August 2019 edition of Yachting World. The delayed 2020 Figaro Series is due to run from August 27 – September 20.

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Pinnacle solo race of the French

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The success of French shorthanded offshore racing is rooted in the La Solitaire du Figaro, a solo multi-stage sailing race created in 1970. Since the early 1990s all boats have been built by Bénéteau, with their first boat called the Figaro Bénéteau One Design.

That 30-footer was used until 2002, replaced by the Figaro Bénéteau 2 (33.3-feet) which was used until 2018, shifting in 2019 to the Figaro Bénéteau 3 (35.7-feet) which was the first production foiling one-design monohull ever created.

The perennial pinnacle solo race of the French, which gets its name from the daily newspaper Le Figaro, returns for the 54th edition with a three stage, 1850 nm course on August 27 to September 13. More than 30 solo skippers are expected to compete on what remains the ultimate annual solo racing multi-stage offshore race.

The course passes through the English Channel, Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea, Iroise Sea and out and back across the Bay of Biscay, with each stage requiring the skippers to spend up to four nights at sea.

“We have kept true to the DNA of the race with varied types of course. After a start in the English Channel from the city of Caen, the stages will combine an almost equal mix of inshore coastal and open, offshore racing,” says Yann Chateau who is the race director of La Solitaire of Figaro.

The race moves to a stopover outside of France for the first time since the global health crisis. Also, the intermediate time bonuses for the podium positions at the sprint markers now get 5 minutes subtracted from their elapsed time for the first to pass the mark, the second gets three minutes and the third one minute.

After leaving the Channel port city of Caen (Calvados), which hosts the start of the race for the third time after 2004 and 2007, there is a very technical opening to a first course mark at the Saint-Marcouf Islands which are left to starboard followed by a passage across the Channel to the Isle of Wight passing the Nab Tower, east of the Isle of Wight and the Needles Fairway, the west of the island, where the first intermediate sprint marker is.

“Bypassing the Isle of Wight, either down the Solent to the north of the island or offshore outside depending on the current and the strategy of each, could well open the game here,” says Yann Chateau.

“The fleet will double back across the Channel a second time towards Bréhat where a new tactical choice needs to be made at Guernsey depending on the current and the weather forecast before making the long tack to get the Fastnet then heading back east along the Irish coast to get to the beautiful haven of Kinsale, a great classic stop which will host La Solitaire du Figaro for the 21st time.”

Concentration and maximum focus will be required until the finish, the topography of the Irish coastline and the different headlands points can create local wind effects and in 2019, last time there, the top three into Kinsale were separated by just 3 minutes and 47 seconds, Yoann Richomme winning the stage by 1 min 13 seconds ahead of a debuting rookie named Tom Laperche.

La Solitaire du Figaro will then head for Brittany, the scenic Bay of Morlaix, which will welcome the Figarists for the 6th time in its history, with one single waypoint at the Isle of Man and an intermediate sprint at Chicken Rock.

“La Solitaire du Figaro has planned to go north to the Isle of Man before but it has never happened yet, usually because of the weather. But our recent experience of the 3rd leg of the 2022 race underlined again that the Figaro BENETEAU 3s are very seaworthy and can withstand strong weather conditions,” says Yann Chateau.

“This course is therefore feasible in September and is a stage that can be considered as coastal knowing that the Irish Sea is not very wide. There are sandbars, lots of fishing boats and points to pass.”

The other difficulty of this stage includes the current at the passages of Land’s End, the south-west tip of England. And of course fatigue really accumulates for the sailors as they arrive back towards the Breton coast on a leg on which there is really no let up and very little time to rest.

The major partner of the event, the Department of Loire-Atlantique sees the finish of La Solitaire du Figaro into a new host city: Piriac-sur-Mer. The finale stage, will once again arrive in the Pays de la Loire region and is a more open, offshore sailing stage.

The first course mark at the Chaussée de Sein will open up the field of play from the start in the Iroise Sea where choices need to be made, among other things, between the Chenal du Four and the Passage de Fromveur, before crossing the Bay of Biscay to a buoy off Gijón, Spain which will also act as a gate for the third intermediate sprint.

“This stage can be quite tricky knowing that at that time, there can be high pressure ridges in the Bay of Biscay with only little mouse holes of wind to use,” says Yann Chateau. “It’s a stage on which the fleet should be more spread out than on the previous one and the potential gaps greater. The finish into Piriac-sur-Mer will offer a technical ‘sting in the tail’ with the Four plateau, the prohibited areas and the potential windshadows and puffs of the islands.”

The course is very much specified to the strengths of the Figaro Beneteau 3 as well as the expectations of sailors and stopover cities. All in all there should be a great, engaging race on the water until the final finish line as well as a very popular celebration on land.

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Hi All, Looking for oppinions on wether you think the figaro 1 (not figaro 2 as way out of price range) would be an efffective cruiser. From what i can tell it has decent accomidation, good safety record as well as good pace. I havent been able to find out what the irc rating is but with the equipment they come with they seem very good value. Also are there fleets of these still being raced? Cheers for any info Rich  

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figaro 1 According to one article on the web, the author states: I Liked: The response to control inputs; educational Sail adjustment made easy by simple convenient controls Weather helm and feedback Stiffness without water ballast Simple rig, not likely to make a damaging mistake when tired Bullet proof construction of hull and rig Easy acceleration in gusts Prop checking window in hull Minimalist accommodation, with standing headroom and no toilet. Dual water inlets for engine in case of blockage, with vetus strainer above WL. I did not like No spray hood, roof mounted winches and jammers in the way? String management , long bags in cockpit sides for tails. Shallow cockpit, offers little protection at sea, multiple bruising on fittings Chain plate rods bisect saloon berths, special y shaped sleeping bag reqd? Genoa winches remote from helm position, cross winching may work? Shallow bilges mean the two lower lockers in galley and chart table are awash. Engine cover is easy to remove, i.e. never stays in place! Anti bonking bunks. She has the lines of a cruiser but below deck she's a bit tight.  

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Navigation programs, the start of an extraordinary adventure.

The highly innovative Figaro Bénéteau 1 was launched by BENETEAU in 1990 for the Solitaire Le Figaro single-handed race, in collaboration with Groupe Finot, and it blazed a trail for a whole generation of sailors: Yves Parlier, Michel Desjoyeaux, Jean Le Cam, Philippe Poupon, Franck Cammas, Kito de Pavant, etc.  The Figaro was the first production boat with ballasts that was designed from the start with offshore racing in mind and its performances had a huge impact, whatever the weather at sea. With a 9.14-metre (30 ft) GRP hull and a fixed keel, it was a real treat for sailors keen on racing and, with great panache, it met all the challenges of the 1,500 to 2,000 miles of the Solitare single-handed race.  

The Iconic Sailing Yacht Levels Up

Designed by Marc Lombard yacht design, the Figaro Bénéteau 2 arrived in 2003. Now 10 metres long, with twin rudders, a production carbon mast and a broader hull, skippers enjoyed a new much faster and more agile racing experience. Like its predecessor, the Figaro Bénéteau 2 was brilliant for training young skippers who hoped to make offshore racing their profession and excel in some of the large events. Nearly 100 Figaro yachts were built between 2003 and 2017, and the boat was used by the Figaro Bénéteau class up until 2018.

Figaro BENETEAU 3, a distillation of innovation

2019 saw a new development with the launch of the first production one design with foils – the Figaro BENETEAU 3 designed with the architects Van Peteghem Lauriot-Prévost (VPLP). Since every detail counts in racing, everything is designed to improve stability, speed and accuracy under sail. It has a foam sandwich, fibreglass and GRP hull free of ballast and performing event better, a deep draught keel with a straight sail for minimum drag, its mast is positioned further aft, and its sail area is increased. The Figaro Bénéteau 3 offers a distillation of technology and excellence that improves speeds and provides a wide choice of navigation options during a race, and, of course, the suspense at sea lasts longer.       

Remarkable performance

Contrary to the Imoca 60 foils, the Figaro Bénéteau 3 has foils that turn inwards and the operate differently. They are versatile reducing drift and improving the boat’s righting moment without increasing the displacement. This results in outstanding performances for a 32-foot monohull.

In preparation for the 50th Solitaire du Figaro in 2019, BENETEAU delivered fifty or so Figaro Bénéteau 3 yachts inside a month to as many eager skippers, so that each contender would receive their boat at the same time to ensure there were no disadvantages in relation to the other contenders. This done, they were each able to familiarise themselves with their one design and begin training. 

The Figaro yachts are real racing machines and they compete with each other in highly competitive regattas.

The Solitaire du Figaro is the best known race, with a few dozen of the best-known skippers taking part every year and enjoying this challenge off the French coast, with a course of 2,000 nautical miles that can take them as far as Spain or Ireland. The other big eagerly awaited meeting is the Transat Paprec.

The ex-Transat AG2R is a race with crew that takes place every two years. Its course takes it from Concarneau to St Barts in the West Indies. The 3890 nautical miles are generally raced inside 3 weeks. Other open Figaro Bénéteau events are part of the French Offshore Racing Championship, such as the Solo Maitre CoQ, the Sardinha Cup, the Tour de Bretagne à la voile and the Solo Guy Cotten.  

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Models of the range

Length Overall

10.89 m / 35’9’’

Beam overall

3.48 m / 11’5’’

Former Figaro

The Figaro race - formerly the Course de l’Aurore – traditionally raced on prototypes was to convert to one-designs. We could not be absent from this race [...]. The project presented by Beneteau and Jean-Marie Finot would win the competition. We would thus have the privilege of building these one-designs, but also of participating with the Figaro in the birth of a wonderful incubator of young sailors, who would then move on to offshore sailing, securing the reputation of French sailors in competition sailing.

Annette Roux -  History ( 1989)

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