Foncia 2 is a

IMOCA 60 The IMOCA ("Open 60"), is a 60ft development class monohull sailing yacht administered by the International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA). The class pinnacle event are single or two person ocean races, such as the Route du Rhum and th ...

Class offshore racing monohull sailing yacht launched 2010.

Construction and Modifications

The boat was designed by

Guillaume Verdier Guillaume Verdier is a French naval architect noted for his designs of high performance sailboats. Life Verdier was born 28 September 1970. From 1990–1993 he studied at MSc in Yacht and Powercraft Design at what is now Southampton Solent Univer ...

VPLP design VPLP design (Van Peteghem Lauriot-Prévost) is a French-based naval architectural firm founded by Marc Van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost, responsible for designing some of the world's most innovative racing boats. Their designs presently ...

(

Marc Van Peteghem Marc Van Peteghem is a French naval architect, co-founder of VPLP (Van Peteghem Lauriot-Prévost) a French based naval architectural firm, since 1983. Studies Born on January 9, 1957, in Paris, Marc Van Peteghem studied at Southampton Solent Uni ...

and Vincent Lauriot-Prévost) and also significant input from

Michel Desjoyeaux Michel Desjoyeaux (born 16 July 1965 in Concarneau) is a French sailor, known for competing successfully in several long-distance single-handed races. He won the Vendée Globe race in 2000-01 and 2008–09, making him the only person to win t ...

. It is an innovative hull, marked by a double chain and a bridge in "seagull wing", as well as bearing drifts. This sailboat is a second generation VPLP design. The launched on a tight schedule on the 20th September 2010 just six months after the start of the project, at a cost of 3 million euros. The tight timescale was made possible by the collaboration build effort consisting of the Green Marine shipyards in Lymington GBR and JMV Industries in Cherbourg (FRA). Green Marine made the plug and the moulded the hull and JMV the made the deck. The boat was assembled at the CDK Technologies site in Port-la-Forêt led by Hubert Desjoyeaux who is the brother

. After several months of study, the boat went back to CDK Technologies over the winter of 2015–2016 were the daggerboards were replaced by ''hydrofoils''.

2010–2011 – FRA 101 – Foncia II

Results Summary

6th –

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

–

Route du Rhum The Route du Rhum is a transatlantic single-handed yacht race, which takes place every four years in November. The course is between Saint Malo, Brittany, Metropolitan France and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, overseas France. The first competiti ...

with

in a time of 15 days, 17 hours and 29 minutes;
RET – 2010–2011 –

Barcelona World Race The Barcelona World Race is a non-stop, round-the-world yacht race for crews of two, sailed on Open 60 IMOCA monohull boats. Following the Clipper route, it starts and finishes in Barcelona, and is organised by the Barcelona Ocean Sailing Fou ...

with

and

François Gabart François Gabart (born 23 March 1983 in Saint-Michel-d'Entraygues, France) is a French professional offshore yacht racer who won the 2012-13 Vendée Globe in 78 days 2 hours 16 minutes, setting a new race record. In 2017 he set the speed record f ...

; File:Route-du-Rhum-2010-Foncia-II.jpg, File:Foncia.jpg, File:Foncia-bis.jpg, File:Foncia-2.jpg,

2011–2013 – FRA 19 – Banque Populaire

Results Summary

3rd –

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

– Transat Jacques-Vabre with

Armel Le Cléac'h Armel Le Cléac’h () is a French professional navigator and sea captain. He was the IMOCA world champion in 2008 and French champion in single-handed yacht race in 2003, he notably won the Solitaire du Figaro twice (2003 and 2010), the Transat ...

and

Christopher Pratt John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.Armel Le Cléac'h Armel Le Cléac’h () is a French professional navigator and sea captain. He was the IMOCA world champion in 2008 and French champion in single-handed yacht race in 2003, he notably won the Solitaire du Figaro twice (2003 and 2010), the Transat ...

in 9 days, 13 hours and 8 minutes;
3rd – 2012 – Europa Warm'Up with

;
2nd – 2012-2013 –

Vendée Globe --> The Vendée Globe is a single-handed (solo) non-stop round the world yacht race. The race was founded by Philippe Jeantot in 1989, and since 1992 has taken place every four years. It is named after the Département of Vendée, in France, w ...

with

in 78 days, 5 hours and 33 minutes;

2012–2013 Vendée Globe The 2012–2013 Vendée Globe is a non-stop solo Round the World Yacht Race for IMOCA 60 class yachts this is the seventh edition of the race. Summary The 2012 Vendée Globe started on 10 November 2012. The race saw the 24-hour singlehanded dista ...

2013–2017 – FRA 19 – Maître CoQ III

Results Summary

2nd – 2013 – Rolex

Fastnet Race The Fastnet Race is a biennial offshore yacht race organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club of the United Kingdom with the assistance of the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes and the City of Cherbourg in France. The race is named after the Fastnet ...

with

Jérémie Beyou Jérémie Beyou is a French professional Offshore sailor born on 27 June 1976 in Landivisiau (Finistère). He is a member of C N Lorient Sailing Club. He won the Solitaire du Figaro three times in 2005, 2011 and 2014 and was crowned French cham ...

and

Christopher Pratt John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.Transat Jacques-Vabre with

and

Christopher Pratt John Christopher Pratt (December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022) was a Canadian painter and printmaker.2014 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

–

with

in 12 days, 12 hours and 11 minutes;
1st – 2016 – Transat New York-Vendée with

in 9 days, 16 hours, 57 minutes and 49 seconds;
3rd – 2016-2017 –

with

in 78 days, 6 hours 38 minutes 40 seconds; File:Foil de Maitre Coq.jpg, File:Jérémie Beyou (8).jpg, File:Maitre Coq aile de mouette.jpg, File:Route du Rhum 2014 - Maître Coq cockpit.jpg, File:Route du Rhum 2014 - Maître Coq.JPG,

2016–2017 Vendée Globe The 2016–2017 Vendée Globe is a non-stop solo Round the World Yacht Race for IMOCA 60 class yachts this is the eighth edition of the race. Summary The 2016 – 17 race started from Les Sables d'Olonne on 6 November 2016; was the eighth editio ...

2017–2022 – Initiatives-Cœur (3)

Results Summary

3rd –

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

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Armen Race Armen may refer to: * the ''Armani'', a tribe of the Armenian Highlands and Anatolia ** sometimes associated with the Name of Armenia *Armen (name), including a list of people with the name Places *Armen, Albania, a town in southern Albania *Ar M ...

with

Tanguy de Lamotte Tanguy de Lamotte is a French sailor born on 6 May 1978 in Versailles, Yvelines Yvelines () is a Departments of France, department in the western part of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region in Northern France. In 2019, it had a popu ...

;
7th –

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

– Transat Jacques-Vabre with Samantha Davies and

Paul Meilhat Paul Meilhat (born 17 May 1982) is a French sailor and navigator. He was a high level 49er dinghy sailor with Olympic aspirations before moving into offshore sailing. From 2015 to the end of 2018 he was skipper of the IMOCA 60 - SMA and he comp ...

;
4th – 2020 –

Vendée Arctique The Vendée Arctique is a single-handed (solo) yacht race, from France to the Arctic Circle and back. The race History The race was founded by in 2020, as a qualifier for the Vendée Globe following the cancellation of a number of the qua ...

with Samantha Davies;
DNF – 2020-2021 –

with Samantha Davies keel damage force a repair in cape town although the boat carried on;

2020–2021 Vendée Globe The 2020–2021 Vendée Globe was a non-stop round the world yacht race for IMOCA 60 class yachts crewed by only one person. It was the ninth edition of the race, which started and finished in Les Sables-d'Olonne, France. The race began on 8 Novem ...

On December 2, 2020, at 7 p.m. (universal time), in the roaring 40s, more than 300 miles from the Cape of Good Hope, Samantha Davies sailed was sailing between 15 and 22 knots, in a wind of 30 knots in 11th place in the race. Suddenly, the boat hits an unidentified floating object and stopped in a brutal manner. She hears cracks and was thrown around the inside of the boat along with the meal she was preparing. As a result, she suffered bruising. The cracks in the longitudinal in the keel structure surrounding the keel ram and potential damage to the fin and ram itself made it unsafe to enter the Southern Ocean with repair and inspection. So Samantha Davies diverted to Cape Town while options were considered she arrived on 5 December where she retired from the race. She then made the decision to carry on with her round the world voyage.

2021-Present - La Mie Câline

Arnaud Boissières Arnaud Boissières (born 20 July 1972) is a French professional offshore sailor. Career highlights File:Arnaud Boissières.jpg, Arnaud Boissières in 2012. File:Akena Vérandas Brest 2008.jpg, ''Akena Vérandas'' and ''VMI'' in 2008 File:Tr ...

acquired the ship in 2021.

Results Summary

12th – 2022 – Guyader Bermudes;
DNF – 2022 –

;

References

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