IMOCA 60 No Way Back
Development
DesignerVPLP Design, Guillaume Verdier Design Office, Guillaume Verdier Edit this on Wikidata
Year18 August 2015 Edit this on Wikidata
Racing
Class associationIMOCA 60

The IMOCA 60 Class yacht No Way Back, NED 160 was designed by VPLP design and Guillaume Verdier and launched in the 18 August 2015[1] after being built Persico in Italy.[2][1] The boat had structural issues during the 2022 Route de Rhum when the ballast tanks demounted themselves. This while retiring from the race the previous day and heading back towards Portugal led to an onboard fire and the boat was lost,

Racing results

PosYearRaceClassBoat NameSkipperNotesRef
Round the World Races
DNF / 3320212020–2021 Vendée GlobeIMOCA 60Newrest – Art & Fenêtres Fabrice Amedeo (FRA)General computer failure, diverted to and retired unaided to Cape Town [3]
17 / 2920172016–2017 Vendée GlobeIMOCA 60No Way Back Pieter Heerema (NED)116d 09h 24m 12s [4]
Transatlantic Races
Sank2022Route du RhumIMOCA 60Nexans-Art & Fenêtres, FRA 56 Fabrice Amedeo (FRA)[5]
10 / 222021Transat Jacques VabreIMOCA 60Nexans - Arts & Fenêtres, FRA Fabrice Amedeo (FRA)
 Loïs Berrehar (FRA)
21d 03h 44m
9 / 292019Transat Jacques VabreIMOCA 60Newrest - Arts & Fenêtres, FRA 56 Fabrice Amedeo (FRA)
 Eric Peron (FRA)
14d 16h 01m
12 / 202018Route du RhumIMOCA 60Newrest - Arts & Fenêtres, FRA 56 Fabrice Amedeo (FRA)20d 20h 09m
Other Races
9 / 202019Rolex Fastnet RaceIMOCA 60Newrest - Arts & Fenêtres, FRA 56 Fabrice Amedeo (FRA)
 Eric Peron (FRA)
+ Crew
2d 05h 07m

Timeline

Vento di Sardegna (2015)

The boat was originally commissioned by Italian skipper Andrea Mura[6] however he lost his sponsor and had to sell the boat before it was completed.[7]

No Way Back (2016-2017)

On the 3rd February 2016 it was announced Pieter Heerema has brought the boat to compete in the 2016-2017 Vendee Globe un the name No Way Back, NED 160

Newrest-Art & Fenêtres (2017-2021)


Nexans-Art & Fenêtres (2021-2022)

References

  1. 1 2 "IMOCA Class Website Boat Profile". IMOCA Class Association. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  2. "No Way Back IMOCA 60 Archive Page". Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  3. "Vendée Globe: Fabrice Amedeo retires after computer damage - France 24 | tellerreport.com". www.tellerreport.com.
  4. "News - Dutch sailor Pieter Heerema takes seventeenth place - Vendée Globe - En". www.vendeeglobe.org.
  5. "Fabrice Amedeo: "Death did not want me today"".
  6. "Andrea Mura, the first Italian on a brand new boat". 31 October 2014. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
  7. "Andrea Mura's new boat has been sold". 2015-09-24.


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