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Marc Pajot (born 21 September 1953, in La Baule) is a French sailor. He has been a crew member on Éric Tabarly’s boats.

Marc Pajot
Marc Pajot in Le Havre, November 2013
Born
Marc Pajot

(1953-09-21) 21 September 1953 (age 68)
La Baule-Escoublac, France
HonorsOfficer of the ordre national du Mérite

Knight of the Mérite Maritime
Vermeil de la Ville de Paris medal

Double laureate of the Guy Wildenstein Prize of the Académie des sports
Medal record
Sailing
Representing  France
World Championships
1994 Crouesty 5.5m

Noted for winning the Silver medal at the 1972 Olympics at 19 with his older brother Yves, 5 times world champion, winner of the cross-Atlantic Route du Rhum, twice semi-finalist representing France at the America’s Cup as a Project Manager and Skipper, he has been representing French sailing achievement around the world.

Member of French Maritime Academy, the French Yacht Club, and the Monaco Yacht Club he is now settled in Cannes, Côte d’Azur, running a Yacht Selection activity and a consulting activity in marina landscaping.


Sailing career



From the age of 14 to 23, with his brother Yves


Marc Pajot accumulates national and international titles :


10 years competing on the oceans


Marc Pajot sets out to conquer the oceans under the wing of Eric Tabarly and crosses the Cap Horn at the age of 20 during the first team race around the world, the Whitbread (See Volvo Ocean Race) in 1973.[1]

He sets the professional standards for high seas regattas by promoting his sponsors, amongst which Paul Ricard and Elf Aquitaine with whom he will lead on to accomplish extraordinary performances.
He takes the 2nd place in 1979 at the double handed transatlantic race Lorient-Burmuda-Lorient with the hydrofoil Paul Ricard.


Elf Aquitaine – Titan of the seas

His Elf Aquitaine catamarans – will enable him to accomplish a series of performances between 1980 and 1983:

Marc Pajot has so far crossed 15 times the Atlantic Ocean as a skipper, crew member, or single handed.


The America’s Cup


As a project manager, Skipper and helmsman, Marc Pajot has been able to federate the best in the profession, sponsors, naval architects, engineers, tacticians and crew, to run after the America’s Cup for four challenges:

Twice he succeeded in skippering the French challenge to the semi-finals of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

During those 25 years of competitions, Marc Pajot has managed and overseen the conception and creation of over 15 boats from 45 to 100 ft.


Other areas within the sailing world


Since 2000 Marc Pajot has also become a yacht broker providing yacht selection services and does consultancy in Marina landscaping around the world.


Yachting accomplishments



Distinctions



Publications



References


  1. "Archive Volvo Ocean Race". Retrieved 2019-03-16.
  2. "Course du Rhum". ina.fr. 29 November 1982. Retrieved 16 December 2011.

На других языках


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[fr] Marc Pajot

Marc Pajot est un navigateur français, né le 21 septembre 1953 à La Baule (Loire-Inférieure). Il fut l'un des équipiers d'Éric Tabarly.



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