PRB Sailing Team

The PRB Sailing Team is primarily focused on offshore round the world sailing and is the longest term sponsor of Vendée Globe competitors. The current team manager François Dubreuil.

Round the World Race Entrants

Year Owned	Boat Name	Class	Designer	Builder	Year Built	Roud the World Races	Notes
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1992	PRB Solo Nantes / PRB-Vendee	IMOCA 60	Lucas	Chantier Alu Marine (FRA)	New Build	1992-1993 Vendée Globe	\|{{cite web\|url=https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%2060%27/A9.htm\|title=A9 SOLO 44\|website=histoiredeshalfs.com\|access-date=24 December 2023}}
1996-1999	PRB	IMOCA 60	Finot-Conq	Chantier Pinta (FRA)	New Build	1996-1997 Vendée Globe 1998 Around Alone	Boat Lost \|{{cite web\|url=https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%2060%27/F7.htm \|title=F7 PRB 85\|website=histoiredeshalfs.com\|access-date=24 December 2023}}
1999-2005	PRB 2	IMOCA 60	Finot-Conq	MAG (FRA)	New Build	2000-2001 Vendée Globe 2004-2005 Vendée Globe	\|{{cite web\|url=https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%2060%27/F14.htm \|title=F14 PRB 2, 85\|website=histoiredeshalfs.com\|access-date=24 December 2023}}
2006-2009	PRB 3	IMOCA 60	Farr	CDK (FRA)	New Build	2007 Barcelona World Race 2008-2009 Vendée Globe	\|{{cite web\|url=https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%2060%27/E41.htm \|title=E41 PRB (3), FRA 85 \|website=histoiredeshalfs.com\|access-date=24 December 2023}}
2009-2021	PRB 4	IMOCA 60	Lauriot-Prévost / G. Verdier	CDK (FRA)	New Build	2012-2013 Vendée Globe 2016-2017 Vendée Globe 2020-2021 Vendée Globe	Boat Lost \|{{cite web\|url=https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%2060%27/A29.htm \|title=A29 PRB, FRA 85\|website=histoiredeshalfs.com\|access-date=24 December 2023}}
2021–Present	PRB (R36)	Rustler 36	Holman & Pye	Rustler Yachts (GBR)	1980s	2022 Golden Globe Race	\| {{Cite web\|url=https://goldengloberace.com/skipper/2022/damien-guillou/\|title = Damien Guillou\|website=goldengloberace.com\|year=2022}}
2022–Present	PRB 5	IMOCA 60	Verdier	Carrington Boats (GBR)	New Build	2024-2025 Vendée Globe	\|{{cite web\|url=https://www.histoiredeshalfs.com/Histoire%20des%2060%27/A45.htm \|title=A45 Switchback\|website=histoiredeshalfs.com\|access-date=24 December 2023}}

PRB - The sponsor

Year of creation: 1975
Head office: La Mothe-Achard, Vendée, France
Chairman of the board: Jean-Jacques Laurent

Business activity :

coating and flooring products for the building industry - products for façades and decoration (paint, TPC...), for tiling and soft flooring, for masonry; ranges of tiles and reconstituted stone.
110M turnover in 2006
5% in export
3rd biggest producer of façade rendering in France
16% of the French single-layer façade market (hydraulic binder)
500 000 tonnes of rendering per year
No1 independent rendering manufacturer
Staff at production site: 200 employees
Number of sales representatives: 83
13 warehouses nationally
7 production units on the same site

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20060622231131/http://prb.fr/voile_index.php Old Website PRB Official Website]

Category:Sailing teams

Category:Vendée Globe