Double Velux 5 Oceans winner off on tge AG2R as his new Juan K IMOCA 60 is under construction

Bernard Stamm is one of thedailysail’s favourite characters in our sport – a hard man with enough tattoos to make it easy to imagine him at home deep in the bowels of a freighter (where he indeed spent much of his professional career before going sailing), but also with enough reserve and finesse that have seen him join offshore sailing legends Philippe Jeantot and Christophe Auguin in becoming a double winner of the BOC Challenge/Around Alone/Velux 5 Oceans, singlehanded round the world race with stops.

Although Swiss, Stamm has lived in Brittany since the mid-1990s when he first...

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