{ There are 150 sensors around the boat, including 100 fibre optics in the hull measuring strain, fibre optics in the mast measuring deformation, plus load pins, wind gear and more. }
{ Team Malizia represents Yacht Club de Monaco and the name Malizia originates from 1297, when Francesco Grimaldi cunningly stormed the Rock of Monaco and seized control, gaining him the name Malizia (the ‘cunning one’). }
The team reckon 35,000 design hours went into Malizia, plus around 45,000 hours in build
Followers of the IMOCA fleet will know that two names have dominated the class over the past two generations when it comes to design: VPLP and Verdier. So, it’s no surprise that all five of the IMOCAs competing in The Ocean Race come from those same drawing boards (and in the case of the oldest boat in the fleet, the 2015-launched Guyot Environnement, a VPLP/Verdier partnership).
Of the four designs, three are by Verdier – , , and . This leaves Boris Herrmann’s as the sole latest generation VPLP IMOCA was, uniquely among the fleet, designed from the outset for both the 2023 Ocean Race and the 2024 Vendée Globe. The result is a distinctively different looking IMOCA.
