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Thanks to a great teamwork…

18 May 2023

… our Open60AAL ⛵ is back in the water 🌊 😀✅!

It was again a great job 🙏 from the crew of the travel lift 🏗, Yacht Care Services 🚛, many of our friends and of course our Innovation Yachts Crew. Now the Open60AAL is back on the Vendée Globe Ponton 😊! And we have started immediately a long list 📝 of jobs which have to be done before the 5^th departure of project ANT ARCTIC LAB, on 6^th August, 10.30 a.m. will happen.

Special thanks, that we “can do what we do” also to the crew of the Port Olona and the Commercial Harbour of Les Sables d’Olonne 👍😀.

Open60AAL Innovation Yachts being transported — Transporting Open60AAL

Open60AAL Innovation Yachts on travel lift next to keel — Transporting Open60AAL

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