An Exceptional Season Before the Atlantic
After a year marked by a series of major victories, Benoît Marie is preparing to take on one of the most demanding challenges in offshore racing: the Mini Transat 2025. Crossing the Atlantic single-handedly on a 6.50 m boat is more than just a race, it’s an extreme human and technological test, where every decision and every onboard component must perform flawlessly, all the time.
Throughout the season, Benoît has stacked up wins in the flagship events of the Mini 6.50 circuit: Plastimo Lorient Mini, Mini en Mai, Trophée Marie-Agnès Péron, Mini-Fastnet, and the two-stage Transgascogne: a total of seven victories, continuing the legacy of his Mini Transat 2013 success.
The Nicomatic x Petit Bateau of Benoît Marie is a true concentrate of technological innovation: a platform optimized for speed, endurance, and reliability, the result of rigorous design, integration, and testing.
Its performance has already been proven through remarkable feats:
- Caroline Boule set the record for the longest distance covered in 24 hours on a Mini 6.50 with this boat, confirming the endurance and robustness of its architecture.
- The boat also reached a top speed of 31.9 knots, a testament to its outstanding potential.
Shared values with Nicomatic
At Nicomatic, we support this project because it embodies our values: precision, reliability, rigor, and innovation. But it goes beyond technology: it’s also about human audacity.
Like Benoît and his team, we believe in daring to explore the unknown, attempting the impossible, and taking on extraordinary challenges.
Building this boat in record time, continuously improving it, and pushing its performance ever further reflect what we also experience in our own field: designing groundbreaking solutions, embracing risk, learning by testing, and always moving forward.
Extreme environments: at sea, in space, in aerospace, or in defense, tolerate no failure. But they also demand the courage and imagination to invent new ways forward.
It is the meeting of human daring and resilient technology that binds us to this project.
Heading Toward the Mini Transat 2025
Preparation continues with the same level of excellence: equipment testing, technical fine-tuning, and logistical support will accompany every step leading up to the start.
We wish Benoît Marie the very best for this incredible race aboard the Nicomatic x Petit Bateau!