{"id":14497,"date":"2025-11-12T09:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T08:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jpk.fr\/?p=14497"},"modified":"2026-01-19T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:14:46","slug":"le-jpk-1050-en-lice-pour-lelection-de-l-european-yacht-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpk.fr\/en\/course\/le-jpk-1050-en-lice-pour-lelection-de-l-european-yacht-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"The JPK 1050 in the running for European Boat of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The European Yacht of the Year Awards are always a big event in the sailing world and give exceptional visibility to the shipyards that take part. The JPK 1050 was invited this year along with a dozen other boats to Port Ginesta, south of Barcelona.<\/p>

Transporting<\/h2>

We were given the opportunity to participate by our friend and customer Nico Popp, whose JPK 1050 is based in Antibes and who kindly offered it to us for the competition.<\/p>

It was too good an opportunity to pass up, combining the pleasure of a beautiful sail between Antibes and Barcelona with the chance to defend our chances in the Racers category against, among others, the XR41 and the Pogo RC...<\/p>

So, I made arrangements with my friend Herv\u00e9 to sail the 300 miles in light, easy winds. Fortunately, the boat is fast in light airs and the engine was hardly used despite the average wind speed of 6-8 knots. Less than 48 hours later, we were there!<\/p>

Ten journalists, ten trials<\/h2>

We met our fellow participants and the ten European journalists who would be taking turns on board.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\r\n \"Jochen\r\n

Jochen Rieker<\/h3>\r\n

Yacht \u2013 Germany<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Roland\r\n

Roland Regnemer<\/h3>\r\n

Yachtrevue \u2013 Austria<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Morten\r\n

Morten Brandt<\/h3>\r\n

B\u00e5dmagasinet \u2013 Denmark<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Pasi\r\n

Pasi Nuutinen<\/h3>\r\n

Vene \u2013 Finland<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Sebastien\r\n

Sebastien Mainguet<\/h3>\r\n

Voiles & Voiliers \u2013 France<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Marinus\r\n

Marinus van Sijdenborgh de Jong<\/h3>\r\n

Zeilen \u2013 Netherlands<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

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Alberto Mariotti<\/h3>\r\n

Superyacht24 \u2013 Italy<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Lori\r\n

Lori Sch\u00fcpbach<\/h3>\r\n

Marina CH \u2013 Switzerland<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Axel\r\n

Axel Nissen-Lie<\/h3>\r\n

Seilmagasinet \u2013 Norway<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Joakim\r\n

Joakim Hermansson<\/h3>\r\n

Praktiskt B\u00e5t\u00e4gande \u2013 Sweden<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Diego\r\n

Diego Yriarte<\/h3>\r\n

N\u00e1utica y Yates \u2013 Spain<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n

\r\n \"Toby\r\n

Toby Hodges<\/h3>\r\n

Yachting World \u2013 United Kingdom<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n