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Fabrice Germond is awarded of a Bachelor of Engineering in Yacht and Powercraft Design from the Southampton Institute, and a Mechanical Engineer Diploma from the Ecole d'Ingénieurs de Genève. After his Mechanical Engineer Diploma research made in wind tunnel for the yacht designer Sébastien Schmidt, he designed a proto mini 6.50 and did some towing tank tests for his Southampton Institute Design Dissertation.

After his studies, he participates in the building of the Alinghi SUI-64, winner of the America's Cup, the building of the Open 60' Artech 60', the building of trimaran 60's appendages and worked as an research and development composite engineer. At the same time, he designed and built his own mini 6.50 to do the Transat 6.50.

Fascinated by sailing since his childhood, Fabrice began cruising very early, then regatta and finally ocean racing.

Fabrice Germond Yacht Design is a structure ready to concretize your projects and to realize your dreams, thanks to his excellent knowledge of sailing, building, composites materials, structure calculations and aero and hydrodynamics.