Loick&Bruno Peyron training on DNAs for AC34

Loick and Bruno on their DNA (pic by Jean Marie Liot)

Loick, Arno & Bruno at Delivery in Le Pouliguen (La Baule )(pic by Jean Marie Liot)
Loick wants a new chance at the cup after sailing with Alinghi 5, with his brother Bruno they’ll try to challenge BOR in the game these two top multihull sailors know best. More info from the Peyron bros below by Arno.
We’ve been following the DNA since day one, in fact at a given time CSN was the only place where you could get info about it, the same with Alex Udin and SI and other cat projects.
Now the DNA has become almost a OD design inside the A-Class, the top 3 A (& Australian) sailors and 15 of their mates will race them in next Nats in January, currently the DNA is THE boat to buy in the A-Class. A truly great achievment for Arno and PJ, right now they’ve made the perfect boat, something that in other box rules classes the Tiger has achieved in the past, but now the F18 has at least 3 top competitive designs, clearly the F18 has reach a stall point as pont by Fischer too, while that stage will be reached by the A-Class with the new designs to come that will try to emulate or impove the DNA…. lets wait to see if Martin Fischer new A can match it-
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Sent by Arno Terra from DNA-ARC .
“Last Friday I delivered two boats to Bruno and Loick Peyron at the CNBPP, one of France’s most beautiful located clubs at the Atlantic coast. They are in the process of launching another French America’s Cup Challenge.
It is good to see guys which such a long and succesful track record in big multihulls enter both the A-class and the next America’s cup.
It is another example how this Cup has a positive effect on the whole sport. We see A-cat sailors who join the AC syndicates, we see AC heroes enter the A-class and we see offshore around the world multihull sailors step on small boats and inshore AC multihulls.

I had very interesting discussions both with Bruno and Loick about developments in the big cats, the ORMA tris and other boats. So were the curved foils introduced by Loick in the ORMA tris many years before these showed up in the A-class. What really surprised me that there seems so little difference in their way to seek performance gains compared to what we do in the A-class and that the same lessons were learned despite the scale factor.
The challenges in terms of amount of rocker, C-foils, volume, etc, of an A-class designer appear to be not that different from a AC72 hull designer or a ORMA ama designer.
Before my visit to them I was convinced that we could not scale up the DNA to an AC72 as the crew in an AC72 does not weigh 7000 kgs (in A-class crew is usually heavier than the boat of 75kgs). The opposite might be true…

I think that these brothers have the talent and the knowledge to create a team that can develop, build and sail a competitive A72. They will use another design approach than the older teams wich I am convinced will be very succesful as no other team can rival them in empirical data about big multihulls.
It will be good for the sport and his country if Bruno will find the extra funding he needs for the campaign before the start of the AC45 cycle in March 2011″.
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More on the DNA on CS label and in their site
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