Jay Thompson

I set sail single handed from California in 2006 and traveled around the world meeting my wife and having 4 children along the way that have been born in 4 different countries, all on a engineless Germen Frers 1 ton sloop.

Now, I live on the Brittany coast of France racing and preparing offshore sailboats. I have worked for two different Imoca 60 teams over the last two years. I worked with Conrad Colman to prepare his boat for the Vendee Globe 2016/17.

My current project is building a Mini650 Prototype designs by the acclaimed Guillaume Verdier. The boat will be one of the most technologically advanced sailboats for shorthanded offshore racing. Equipped with foils with flaps, elevators on the rudders and canting keel. Almost everything is built from carbon fiber. I hope to launch the boat in the summer of 2018.