Archambault Boats Explained

Archambault Boats
Type:Privately held company
Founded:1959
Defunct:2014
Hq Location City:Dangé-Saint-Romain
Hq Location Country:France
Industry:Boat building
Products:Sailboats

Archambault Boats was a French boat builder based in Dangé-Saint-Romain. The company specialized in the design and manufacture of monohull fibreglass sailboats.

History

Archambault Shipyard was founded in 1959 by Emmanuel Archambault. The company ran into financial problems in 2011. In November 2012, Gilles Caminade purchased the business retaining Emmanuel Archambault as general manager. In 2015, Archambault was intended to be purchased by BG Race, a company founded in 2013 by Louis Burton and Servane Escoffier, who wanted to move production to Saint-Malo, planning to call it Archambault by BG Race, but the transaction was not completed. At the end of 2017 the partners sold Archambault to the pilot and amateur yachtsman Jean-Charles Thomas, who had planned to restart production, but by 2023 there was no indication this had been achieved and operations seem to have come to an end in 2014.[1] [2] [3]

The first designs produced were the Brick and the Atlante in the late 1960s. The smallest boat produced was the Archambault Bagheera, which entered production in 1968 and had a length overall of 19.68feet.[4] [5] [6]

The company used the design services of Joubert Nivelt Design for many of its racers, including the 2012 Archambault A27.[7] [8] [9] [10]

The 2004 Archambault A40 was the largest boat produced by the company, with a length overall of 39.34feet[4] [5] [11]

The Archambault A31, a scaled-down follow-on to the successful Archambault A35 and Archambault A40RC racers, was introduced in 2009.[12] [13] In a 2009 review of the A31 naval architect Robert H. Perry wrote, "the Archambault boats are quickly making a name for themselves as quality-built race winners in Europe."[14]

The company's M34 was selected as the one-design class boat for the Tour de France à la voile in 2011 and served in that role until 2014.[15] [16]

During its lifetime the company was a mid-sized boat builder, neither building "one-off" custom boats nor large production runs. In 2012 it was reported that they were building 160 boats per year, with 60% being exported from France.[17]

In a 2014 review of the A13 written for Sails Magazine, Kevin Green noted, "the relatively small number of Archambaults in Australia have had some big wins over the years which says a lot for this small boutique French yard that excels at building competitive cruiser-racers, with the emphasis heavily on the performance side of that equation."[18]

One of the last boats built was the Archambault A13, a 43feet racer. Intended for mass production by BG Race, only one boat was completed before the company went out of business early in 2015.[19] [20]

Boats

Summary of boats built by Archambault Boats:[4]

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bateaux Archambault. 20 February 2023. itBoat. 2023. https://archive.today/20230220162800/https://itboat.com/shipyards/887-bateaux-archambault. 20 February 2023. live.
  2. Web site: New Owner and Agent announced for Archambault Yachts. 20 February 2023. Veal. Rohan. Sail-World. 4 June 2013. https://archive.today/20230220163049/https://www.sail-world.com/Australia/New-Owner-and-Agent-announced-for-Archambault-Yachts/-110154. 20 February 2023. live.
  3. Web site: J-C Thomas, BG Race shipyard owner:"You have to surf on the name Archambault!". 20 February 2023. Merlet. Briag. Shipyard Magazine. 3 November 2017 . https://archive.today/20230220163203/https://www.boatindustry.com/news/26922/j-c-thomas-bg-race-shipyard-owner-you-have-to-surf-on-the-name-archambault. 20 February 2023. live.
  4. Web site: Archambault Boats (FRA) 1967 - 2014. 21 February 2023. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2023. https://archive.today/20230221165826/https://sailboatdata.com/builder/archambault-boats-fra. 21 February 2023. live.
  5. Web site: Archambault. 20 December 2020. Boat-Specs.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201218153814/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/builders/archambault. 18 December 2020. live.
  6. Web site: Bagheera sailboat . 30 December 2020. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201230153017/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/bagheera. 30 December 2020 . live.
  7. Web site: A27 (Archambault) sailboat . 20 December 2020. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201219161449/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/a-27-archambault. 19 December 2020. live.
  8. Web site: A27 Fin keel. 20 December 2020. Boat-Specs.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201219161458/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/archambault/a27-fin-keel. 19 December 2020. live.
  9. Web site: Joubert-Nivelt. 20 December 2020. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201219161507/https://sailboatdata.com/designer/joubert-nivelt. 19 December 2020 . live.
  10. Web site: Joubert Nivelt Design. 20 December 2020. Boat-Specs.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201218155419/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/designers/joubert-nivelt-design. 18 December 2020. live.
  11. Web site: Archambault 40 sailboat . 24 December 2020. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201224220514/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/archambault-40. 24 December 2020 . live.
  12. Web site: A31. 20 December 2020. Boat-Specs.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201220163717/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/archambault/a31%23nopics. 20 December 2020. live.
  13. Web site: Archambault 31. 20 December 2020. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201220232717/https://sailboatdata.com/sailboat/archambault-31. 20 December 2020 . live.
  14. Web site: A31. 20 December 2020. Perry. Robert H.. Robert Perry (yacht designer). Sailing magazine. 4 May 2009. https://archive.today/20201220163523/https://sailingmagazine.net/article-709-a31.html. 20 December 2020. live.
  15. Web site: Tour de France à la voile. 22 December 2020. McArthur. Bruce . sailboatdata.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201222182441/https://sailboatdata.com/association/tour-de-france-a-la-voile. 22 December 2020 . live.
  16. Web site: 2011 - 2014 : M34. 22 December 2020. Tour de France à la voile. Tour de France à la voile. www.tourvoile.fr. https://web.archive.org/web/20200923183544/https://www.tourvoile.fr/en/history/2011-2014. 23 September 2020. live.
  17. News: A40RC Review. 24 December 2020. Heppell. Toby. Yachts & Yachting. 1 June 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20201224204825/https://www.yachtsandyachting.co.uk/equipment/boat-tests/a40rc-review/. 24 December 2020. live.
  18. Web site: Analysing the A13 . 18 December 2020. Green. Kevin. Sails Magazine. 7 October 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20150322044318/http://www.sailsmagazine.com.au/j/index.php/livenews/886-analysing-the-archambault-a13. 22 March 2015. dead.
  19. Web site: A13. 20 December 2020. Boat-Specs.com. 2020. https://archive.today/20201218153628/https://www.boat-specs.com/sailing/sailboats/archambault/a13%23nopics. 18 December 2020. live.
  20. Web site: The story behind the A13. 20 December 2020. Emerson. Mark. markemerson.net. 2020. https://archive.today/20201218155534/http://www.markemerson.net/phosphorus/a13.php. 18 December 2020. live.

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