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Alain Thébault is a French yachtsman, born September 19th, 1962 in Dijon.
With
Alain Thébault on L'hydroptère website
SeaBubbles website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thebault, Alain French male sailors (sport) French sailors 1962 births Living people
Alain Thébault is a French yachtsman, born September 19th, 1962 in Dijon.
With Éric Tabarly
Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly was a French Navy officer and yachtsman, born 24 July 1931 in Nantes and died 13 June 1998 of drowning in the Irish Sea. He developed a passion for offshore racing very early on and won several ocean races such as the Osta ...
, he participated in the conception of a multihull
A multihull is a boat or ship with more than one hull, whereas a vessel with a single hull is a monohull. The most common multihulls are catamarans (with two hulls), and trimarans (with three hulls). There are other types, with four or more ...
on hydrofoils, named l'Hydroptère
''Hydroptère'' is a French experimental sailing hydrofoil trimaran imagined by the yachtman Éric Tabarly. The Hydroptère project was managed by Alain Thébault, the design done by naval architects VPLP design and the manufacturing by a grou ...
, with a team of engineers, many of them from the aeronautics industry.
L'hydroptère
''Hydroptère'' is a French experimental sailing hydrofoil trimaran imagined by the yachtman Éric Tabarly. The Hydroptère project was managed by Alain Thébault, the design done by naval architects VPLP design and the manufacturing by a grou ...
was launched in 1995 and reached 35 knots the same year. Since 2005, with the support of Swiss banker, Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie in Geneva
Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...
, he modified his yacht for an attempt to reach the speed of 50 knots and more.
After the Pacific crossing between Honolulu and Los Angeles, where Alain Thébault joined his three daughters. They thought about SeaBubbles : boats 100% electrics flying over water thanks to the foils technology. He develops the SeaBubbles company with Anders Bringdal (quadruple world champion of windsurfing and sailed many times with Alain Thébault on the Hydroptère).
See also
Bibliography
* Alain Thébault, ''Pilote d'un rêve'', Paris, Flammarion, 2005, * Alain Thébault, ''Le mur du vent'', Paris, Editions de La Martinière, 2008,References
External links
Alain Thébault on L'hydroptère website
SeaBubbles website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thebault, Alain French male sailors (sport) French sailors 1962 births Living people