Ocean Racing Magazine - #6 - December 2007 & January 2008 - (Page 34)

BARCELONA WORLD RACE Sailing around the world TWO-HANDED Usually, Dominique Wavre sets sail alone and Michèle Paret is just in his thoughts. This time the couple has set sail together around the world in the Barcelona World Race. A magnificent arrangement for an exceptional couple. Are you doing that for us? "Last year, Mark Turner called us to know what we thought about his two-handed round the world voyage. I asked him: ‘Are you doing that for us? We’ll sign up immediately. Sailing around the world as a couple with Michèle was something we dreamt of a long time ago." We should say that Dominique Wavre and his partner, Michèle Paret share the same passion, yacht racing, and it is something they frequently do. They got to know each other out on the water moreover, during a Whitbread, which Dominique, born on the banks of Lake Geneva, the son of an engineer and a mother, who was a tennis champion, regularly took part in. Used to competing first of all in light sailing, then as part of a crew, he entered the circuit of single-handed Figaro sailing to become one of the pillars of the circuit. At the end of the nineties, he struck it lucky by getting a brand new boat, which he was to take to fifth place in the Vendée Globe 2001. Since then, he has spent his life aboard 60-foot Imoca boats. In 2004, he achieved a great success in The Transat on board his Temenos and in the following Ocean Racing - december 2007 Vendée too, where he finished in fourth place. Today, Dominique Wavre, at the age of 52, has a new boat, which he got to know in the Rhum and which he intends to sail again in the race invented by Philippe Jeantot. His partner, Michèle Paret, born in Nice, started out as an athlete, specialising in the long jump. Then, she discovered that she enjoyed more violent sports: motorcycling, climbing, windsurfing, and mountain-biking… In the end it was sailing she opted for. She tried her hand aboard a Mini, sailed regularly in the Figaro, and took part in the Whitbread, aboard the famous Maiden with a female crew. It was aboard the same boat that Dominique accompanied Fehlmann four years before. The meeting was to bring together two passions and two lives. Dominique and Michèle went on to take part in two Transat AG2R races together and almost won in 1998. From

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ocean Racing Magazine - #6 - December 2007 & January 2008

Cover
Edito
Contents
What they said
News
Portfolio - The news in the picture
Transat Jacques Vabre - Monohulls in power
In the words of the skipper - Michel Desjoyaux, A little bit more
Barcelona World Race - A couple sailing around the world
Imoca - Growth crisis in the Imoca class
Transat 6.5 - A whole series of records
Mini Class - Anatomy of a winner
Multihulls - What sort of trimarans tomorrow ?
Volvo Ocean Race - Second generation
Trials - Mach 45 : an unusual IRC
Match Racing - King Richard
Tactics - A good start
Portrait - Jacques Caraës
Lab - Tubular or wing mast ?
Forty years ago - Chichester, the lonely sea and the sky
Equipment - Shop window
New products - From the drawing board to the boatyard
Opinion - The mirage of worshipping technology

Ocean Racing Magazine - #6 - December 2007 & January 2008