Erwan Le Roux - Pablo Santurde Del Arco! The skipper who has won everything with the crew member who makes everything win! The duo on Ocean Fifty "Koesio" are going to be the talk of the town. About him and the powder! To sum up: with Erwan Le Roux, just 50 years before the MEDMAX Occitanie-Saïdia Resorts, we're going back in time by climbing onto the top steps of the podiums. The sturdy Morbihan native, who has pushed the boundaries of aerodynamics, has won just about everything in the 50-foot multihulls. Single-handed, with two Route du Rhum wins under his belt (in 2014 and 2022, and as a bonus the reference time in the category, which still stands), and double-handed, with three Transat Jacques-Vabre races under his belt (including the first, at the age of 25, in 2009, then 2013 and 2015). And as part of a crew, with victory in the 2012 Québec-Saint-Malo. In short, you can see that this native of Auray, in the Morbihan, President of the Ocean Fifty Class until last year, doesn't pull any punches, even in pure Breton. 

On the other side, finally with him on the Ocean Fifty 'Koesio', the ESpain's Pablo Santurde del Arco. It was as a crew member in Class40 that he made the happy days of many skippers. And with him too, you have to go back a long way. From 2008 and the Class40 World Championship through to the last Transat Jacques Vabre 2023, he almost never finished outside the third step! At 37 years of age, in thirty-three major Class40 events, this guy has improved on everything he touched with 17 wins and 11 podium finishes! From Gonzalo Botin to Alberto Bona, not forgetting Alex Pella, Phil Sharp, Catherine Pourre, Luke Berry, Pietro Luciani and Antoine Carpentier, they are all blessing the kid from Santander. To the point of jokingly wanting to create a "Pablo Trophy" to elect the best team-mate. Certain that he'll be winning it for a long time to come. And as always, with a smile on his face.

It is therefore full of ambition as the duo of Le Roux and Santurde Del Arco about "Koesio will be disembarking on the MEDMAX Occitanie - Saïdia Resorts. It remains to be seen how this 'Breton-Iberian' crew will perform in the Mediterranean, given that they've already made their mark on the Atlantic.