The forest can inspire stories of humans traveling the world on sailing boats.

Wooden «souls» and natural fibers become high-performance sailing vessels. Wood is unparalleled—its fiber is alive, active, and lightweight.

Let’s change the performance model built at the expense of the environment.

Let’s integrate a trajectory toward carbon neutrality. Let’s think differently and combine natural fibers with high- performance designs.

We need to decouple innovation and performance from carbon materials, overcoming the notion that natural fibers compromise performance.

Let’s practice retro-innovation by picking up where we left off when carbon became dominant.

In the past 20 years, natural fiber composites (NFCs) and resin technologies have advanced tremendously. These composites are reliable and enable mold- free boat construction. Our boats can lift off, land back, and hit the water at 40 knots—with no issues reported.

The stiffness of natural fibers like basalt and flax, combined with bio-sourced resin, is lighter and stiffer than polyester.

Let’s create a new carbon-neutral story— one where natural fibers support great human, technological, and societal adventures.

A label can guide the sailing world toward low-carbon processes.

Gildas Plessis, Naval Architect & Designer Let the forest sail Three Project Partners

Together, they have completed a thousand projects.

GPYD & ASSOCIATES

Since 1995, responsible for project architecture, concepts, structural hypotheses, and basic designs. Designed and built 340 boats.

Renaud Banuls

Manages offshore racing units, parametric CFD models, and the performance of hulls and appendages. Architect of Sodebo Ultim and Project Manager for Oracle in the America’s Cup.

GSEA Structural Engineers

Specializes in finite element analysis and lamination plans. GSEA conducts calculations for most winning ULTIM and IMOCA boats.