Galway s Yannick Lemonnier Aims for Mini Transat 2021 in September
25th February 2021
The new look for Yannick Lemonnier s Mini 6.50. Original designer Sam Manuard has done away with the single canard daggerboard, and replaced it with two asymmetrical foils
Quite a few of us still think of Yannick Lemonnier as the keen young French guy who came to Galway by way of Dingle, and in time became the Irish branch of Quantum Sails, with a new loft in the City of the Tribes. But he turned 50 last July, and was thinking of unfinished business, even though he and his son Sean – they re a formidable team – were on their way to winning the Cong-Galway Race for the second year running.