Frédéric Mailhos took up sailing at 8 in an Optimist and has stayed with boats ever since: dinghy sailing as a teenager, studies at EDHEC, instructor at Glénans, then many years in sport catamarans.
In 2010 he bought Akela, a 50-foot Open 50 designed for the BOC Challenge, on which he has done a lot of sailing. The boat, now entered as Feve - Votre épargne finance des fermes bio, is based in Quiberon.
Committed to the environment, he co-founded 'Transition Ecologique En Marche' in late 2016, ran it for five years, and it became the Union Fait Le Climat in 2021. He had trained for six years for his first Route du Rhum, sailed in 2026 in the Vintage Mono division.
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