SAILING
Sailing routes are a personal choice. We have included this page on our site to show our clients that outside our work we are in constant contact with the sea.
And it is this life-long attachment which led 'the boss' to create this boatyard.
Some of Henri Chemineau's routes.
Ocean Races
- 1990 - 19th Route de Rhum on board the 50-foot trimaran - " 'Toulon Charlemagne' ex: Umupro Jardin."
- 1989 - Toulon Calvi on Butterfly a 33' sport catamaran.
- 1983 - Skipper of EPI 60' Trimaran (Ex Spirit of America) for the double handed transatlantic Lorient- Bermuda-Lorient. First use of Kevlar fixed cable rigging
- 1981 - Skipper 'Filtrasol' trimaran 40' 1st Class 5 La Rochelle- New Orleans.
- 1975-6 Atlantic Triangle Race Saint-Malo, Cape-Town, Rio de Janeiro, Portsmouth on 'Pen Duick VI'.
- 1975 - RORC races on 'Pen Duick VI'.
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Route du Rhum 1990 |
Open French veterans
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Dinghy Races
- 2006 - 5th in the Open French Veterans single handed race.
- 2005 - 1st in the Open French Veterans single handed race.
- 2002 - 3rd in the Open French Veterans single handed race.
- 1998 - 2nd in the Open French Veterans single handed race.
- 1973 - 4th French Hopefuls Championship.
- 1973 - The Sailing Battle of Joinville on 470.
- 1972 - 10th European Championship on 470.
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Deliveries from France to the West Indies and back again on : Swan 47, Centurion 45, Amphitrite, Dufour 34, Catana 44, Maramu. Skipper on 'Felicie' a 66' Ketch sailing school in the Mediterranean.