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A new Sport Boat

LONGTZE racing for the America's Cup

From February to December 2006, a group of China Team members lead by Pierre Mas, team skipper, has been testing a good number of existing sportboats, practicing regattas and match racing. The aim was to get a fleet of boats for its operations, part of them being to attract, train and recruit new sailors from China. For that last objective, the philosophy of China Team is to get for China the best that modern yachting produces.

At that stage the idea has come to produce a modern sport boat in China. China Team was just finishing the construction of Longtze, the first Chinese America's Cup and the first carbon composite boat ever built in China. On the other hand, Luc Gellusseau came back from a test in Germany of the new T680 from Steve Thompson: “That's the boat!”.

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