IMOCA 60 Aquitaine Innovations

The IMOCA 60 class yacht Aquitaine Innovations,  was designed by Finot-Conq, and launched in June 1996 after being made by its own build team under the name Aquitaine Composites with managed by Thierry Eluère based in France.

Construction
Hull Construction Other Features
 * Bottom of the hull totally monolithique
 * Preimpregnated carbon high temperature cured
 * Hull stringers are made out of pultruded carbon
 * Bulkhead are made of carbon cured in an autoclaves
 * Rotating wing-mast supported by two deck spreaders both reaching 6,48 m from the centreline (realized with Dassault and CTA, by Alucarbon)
 * Reduced foresail
 * Vectran shrouds
 * Stay of the genoa roller furler in carbon
 * Fixed keel with a carbon voile and inox inserts
 * Special bulb weighed down by fragments of tungsten