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Launch of Charal 2

For the launch of Charal 2, the 40th offshore race boat to be built by CDK Technologies, the yard is breaking new ground with a reference system for naming its new builds. Since its creation in 1984, the CDK Technologies yard has been constantly evolving and innovating, as well as coming up with novel solutions for all its clients. Today, CDK Technologies is proud to launch its 40th offshore race boat, Charal 2, christened CDK-I(F)-15-2022. Following the successful construction of Charal 1, Jérémie Beyou naturally placed his trust in the yard’s teams once again in his constant quest for performance and innovation.

07-11-2022

Combining quality, safety and the environment

Interacting with the production teams and ensuring the compliance of the precise manufacturing processes and their possible evolution: such is the mission of Stephen Corcuff and Paul Rudelle, respectively a manager and QES engineer, who must guarantee that the quality and safety processes are applied right across the Lorient and Port-la-Forêt sites. We interview Stephen Corcuff to explore their spheres of activity which, for the past two years, also include the development of the company’s environmental approach.

04-06-2022

INSPIRING SPORT CAPITAL announces the acquisition of CDK Technologies

INSPIRING SPORT CAPITAL gathers together a group of private investors to hold a majority share in CDK Technologies and develop what is a leading yard in the domain of offshore racing. Joining this ambitious project for growth, Cyril Abiteboul, CEO of Renault F1 Team from 2015 to 2021, has been entrusted the role of CEO of CDK Technologies. He succeeds Philippe Facque, who is retiring

03-24-2022

"International Women's Rights Day"

This Tuesday 8 March is International Women’s Day. A day of worldwide awareness raising and expression, for over a hundred years its focus has been on promoting women’s commitments and actions as well as celebrating them. Within the CDK Technologies yard, they are involved in laminating, laying up and engineering, as well as administration in the domain of human resource management and accounting. Today is their day! Thank you to them all!

03-07-2022

CDK Technologies builds an extension to its Port-la-Forêt site

Since its creation in 1984, CDK Technologies has continued to develop by notably investing in cutting-edge tools. As such, over recent years, the boatyard has fleshed out its global package considerably and is now able to step up to the plate in the provision of all the high-performance technical parts that make up a race boat. To adapt to this flourishing development and in a bid to provide its teams with the best possible working environment, CDK Technologies sets about extending its Port-la-Forêt site in the spring of 2021. From this Thursday 20 January 2022, the latter will be able to accommodate 50 employees on what is now a substantially larger site.

01-21-2022

Maserati has crossed the finish line first of the RORC Transatlantic Race,

On Saturday 15 January, at 01:51:41 local time in Grenada (05:51:41 UTC, 06:51:41 Italian time), Maserati Multi70 crossed the finish line first in the 8th edition of the RORC Transatlantic Race, organized by the Royal Ocean Racing Club in collaboration with Yacht Club de France.
Skipper Giovanni Soldini sailed together with Vittorio Bissaro, Oliver Herrera Perez, Thomas Joffrin, Francesco Pedol and Matteo Soldini, in a wild ride across the Atlantic from Lanzarote to Grenada (2995 nautical miles), which saw the crew finish with a real time of 6 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds. At the end of the competition, the trimaran put in 3476.5 real miles with an average speed of 21.4 knots. The timing will be ratified by the race organizers in the next few hours.
In second place, some distance behind follows Peter Cunningham’s PowerPlay skippered by Ned Collier Wakefield, which starred on board british sailors Giles Scott (tactician for Ineos Team UK in the America’s Cup and winner of two Olympic gold medals in the Finn class) and Miles Seddon (who set the record on this route with Phaedo3 in 2015). Third on the line: Jason Carroll’s Argo skippered by Brian Thompson.

Photo © RORC / Arthur Daniel

Source :Maserati Mod 70

 

01-16-2022