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Sam Davies
and Violette Dorange

Two exceptional sailors for a shared challenge. The experience of Sam Davies and the audacity of Violette Dorange: two talents on the same sporting and humanitarian quest across the world's oceans.

All about SAM and Violette
Samantha Davies and Violette Dorange
Naylah

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children
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Saving children with heart disease

Discover the incredible adventure that enables children with heart diseases to be operated on thanks to the Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque charity.

initiatives coeur boat

A new boat
built for racing

Initiatives-Cœur's beautiful story will continue until 2025 with a new boat launched in 2022. This boat will be more efficient and will enable the skipper to remain competitive in a fast-growing IMOCA fleet, let alone to carry the Initiatives-Cœur's solidarity motive to the highest..

About the boat

Upcoming races

  • Course des caps

    29/06/2025

  • Rolex Fastnet race

    26/07/2025

  • Défi Azimut-lorient

    21/09/2025

  • Transat Café l'or

    26/10/2025

Race programme
Sponsors

Initiatives-cœur's partners are both financial and sports sponsors. They contribute financially to the Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque humanitarian association.

See the partners