Two great and innovative designs meet in front of Rolle, Switzerland

And we are not referring to the Lockheed L-1049 Super Constellation shown on Fanny Brouchoud’s picture below - certainly one of the greatest aircraft designs of all times - but we are talking about the well-known and proven 5.5m Sebastien Schmidt design and the innovative, light displacement new 5.5m Alain Marchand design which launched last year, in 2014. For many years now, no other designers than Seb Schmidt has been capable of bringing a boat to the top finishers in a regatta. This era of