later found each other again at the end of the 1990s… Lamiot was crewing on the All Purpose sailmaker’s boat at La Trinité sur Mer and Trentesaux was returning to racing and looking around for someone to go sailing with!
It was therefore in 1998 that the saga began, buying a secondhand X-332 and christening it Courrier Sud in reference to the novel by writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (reading is a great hobby for Trentesaux, who is also a talented marine artist). Of course, Courrier Sud wins almost all the races it competes in. It is impossible to list here all the boats that will follow, even less so their list of achievements. Let us simply note that Géry Trentesaux has chosen to use Courrier in all of his boat names rather than give each of them a number.
In 2006 Bénéteau entrusted him with the first First 47.7, with which he achieved the following year what he considered his best season: ‘victory at Spi Ouest France, the UK IRC Championship, Cowes-Dinard overall, as well as an exceptional Fastnet Race, very windy, with only 60 boats making it to the finish when we twice tore our mainsail! ‘We were also the first,’ says Trente- seaux, ‘to cut down our genoa to sail in IRC with less overlap… and we came up with the idea almost by accident.
‘During a round of the Spi Ouest regatta
with Courrier du Coeur we had started under Solent jib, then on the first upwind leg the wind suddenly dropped. We no longer had the right sail and yet we had
Above: the last time Trentesaux campaigned something other than a Jacques Valer JPK design he raced this MC34 Courrier Vintage in 2012-2013 with the boat’s builder Sam Marsaudon. One of the first new-style IRC designs, flatter and more powerful, but also more sticky… their first season was spent turning a tricky package into a winner. Come year two and the by now much tweaked design dominated IRC 2 winning five RORC races including the Fastnet. When well sailed this Lombard design was so fast that it is a mystery why the moulds are now languishing at the back of the Marsaudon shipyard
soon passed everyone, realising that we were sailing 3° higher, even if we were going a little slower.’
In between those two RORC seasons he found the time and energy to compete in the Route du Rhum on a Pogo 40. He remembers it as a physically trying ordeal, but mostly still curses himself for having been persuaded by the ‘experts’ against using a furler system on his headsails.
After the 47.7, the First 45 and then the First 40 will follow, in a style of operation that was to be repeated first with the Marsaudon shipyard, then with JPK. Géry Trentesaux does not buy his new boat (usu- ally each year), which is provided by the builder; it is up to him to recruit the crew, order the sails, pay the operating budget and ensure the logistics are done properly. Eric Ingouf, who was responsible for
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