Another interesting partnership between an enlightened amateur and a professional skipper is that between Benoît Garibal, a Parisian and company director, and Paul Brandel, a native of Le Havre who lives in Saint-Malo, on a first-generation Class40, a Pogo40. On one side, Benoit Garibal, an HEC graduate and Managing Director of CeGedim Santé in Paris, a software provider for healthcare professionals. "A complete amateur,  as he likes to call himself, with more than twenty years of IRC sailing, mainly in the Mediterranean in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez. And a project started last year: the purchase of a Pogo40 in Toulon, Denis Van Weynbergh's former 'Altaïr' and, as is often the case during a race, the meeting with young Paul Brandel. With whom " it's an instant match".. At the age of 24, this sailor from Le Havre, who lives in Saint-Malo, already has quite a CV: professional skipper, ocean racer and préparateur. And one desire: to get back to the sensations experienced on Nicolas Bombrun's Class40, whether in the RORC Caribbean, the Normandy Channel Race or the Transat Jacques-Vabre 2023, which finished in 23rd place! Or the Québec - Saint-Malo that Paul Brandel is racing with Thimotée Polet's PogoS4 Zeiss. Another live training session before the MED MAX I Occitanie - Saîdia Resorts. " On a brilliant and surprising course".enthuses Benoît Garibal.