Gilles COLUBI

Vintage Mono skipper, on SNSM GUILVINEC, GUILVINEC

Biography

I'm what you might call an informed amateur. I discovered sailing at 15 and started racing at 20. I took part in several Tour de France à la voile, Figaro and IMOCA campaigns, always as an amateur but alongside professional sailors. In 2022, after being treated for lymphoma, I lived my dream: a first Route du Rhum, in the Rhum Mono category. I finished 5th. I'm doing it again this year with the same boat, a Pogo 12.50, the only 40-footer in the Vintage Mono category and by far the smallest boat of them all.

Record

• 2026, RORC Transatlantic Race, 1st, 1st in IRC Doubles
• 2026, Drheam Cup, 3rd
• 2022, Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe, 5th

Boat

SNSM GUILVINEC, Finot, Pogo-Structures, 2011

In the same class

• Kieran LE BORGNE
• Sidney GAVIGNET
• Christophe BACHMANN
• Tanguy CARADEC
• Amaury DE JAMBLINNE DE MEUX
• Patrick ISOARD
• Titouan PILLIARD
• Frédéric MAILHOS
• Wilfrid CLERTON
• Rémy GÉRIN
• Jean LE CAM
• Olivier NEMSGUERN