Route du Rhum 2026 · Class40
Marco GUERRA
The skipper
- Nationality
- Italy
- Age
- 54 years old
- Home port
- Saint-Tropez
"I'm a problem shooter. Two years of an unusual build, a thousand setbacks: I knocked them down one by one. The Route du Rhum? It's simply the finest problem I have left to solve."
Biography
Marco Guerra is one of the few sailors who design, build and skipper their own boat. After starting out in the Optimist, he spent fifteen years on the Italian Olympic team in the 470, then won 13 Italian titles, 3 European titles and 2 world titles in dinghy, match racing and offshore sailing. He then ran shipyards on the Côte d'Azur for ten years, where he met Imagin'Act, E'nergys and Socomec, whose system is installed on board. From this partnership came the new Class40 #207 Imagin'Act-Socomec. The Route du Rhum then came within reach: this Mediterranean sailor sets off on his first Atlantic crossing, the dream of a lifetime.
The boat
- Class
- Class40
- Sail no.
- FRA207
- Length
- 12.2 m
- Beam
- 4.5 m
- Draft
- 3 m
- Mast height
- 19 m
- Year built
- 2025
- Yard
- Global Service Yacht
- Designer
- Marco Guerra / D'ubaldo-rosso
Links
Information and photos: Route du Rhum organisation (routedurhum.com).