M for Marc, G for Guillemot, 5 for 50 feet: the story of the MG5 sounds quite simple. But when a French ocean racing legend builds his own catamaran, with the next single-handed Route du Rhum on the agenda, the simple story of the start becomes pretty interesting. In short, our curiosity finally reached its height... The result, discovered during an afternoon of sailing off Quiberon in south Brittany, was genuinely explosive.
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- Test location: La Trinité-sur-Mer, Brittany (France)
- Conditions: 4 to 14 knots southwesterly wind, flat sea
When you’ve got the chance to sail regularly on the latest multihulls launched, it’s always interesting to look at whom and for what program the said catamaran or trimaran will be most suited. Here, in this hot August that we’re seeing across large parts of the northern hemisphere, the exercise is reversed and that makes it particularly exciting. What catamaran is Marc Guillemot going to be showing us? In La Trinité-sur-Mer, everyone calls him “Marco”, so…
