Edmond de Rothschild and Caudrelier pursue racing glory across the Atlantic
The maison's newly built maxi trimaran sets sail in the Route du Rhum, with defending champion Charles Caudrelier at the helm. Across 3,542 nautical miles to Guadeloupe, the spirit of daring and navigating one's own course finds its perfect expression.
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The canon fired at Saint Malo on a morning heavy with Atlantic promise. Charles Caudrelier, defender of the 2022 title, took the helm of the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild, and the maxi trimaran slipped into open water towards Guadeloupe: 3,542 nautical miles of Gascony swells, trade winds and the meridian crossing that separates the known from the tested.
The yacht beneath him represents three and a half years of deliberate conception and construction by the Gitana Team, a vessel designed not merely for speed but as an embodiment of the principle that guides both seafaring and stewardship of private capital: the courage to venture where others hesitate, to chart a course that honours tradition whilst refusing to be bound by it. Caudrelier himself carries that same philosophy. A sailor schooled in the discipline of racing and the wisdom of experience, he knows that victory belongs to those who understand the difference between aggression and intelligence, between daring and recklessness.
The Route du Rhum, the biennial race across the Atlantic to Pointe à Pitre, has long attracted the world’s most accomplished navigators and the houses that underwrite them. For Edmond de Rothschild, a name that has quietly shaped the financial world since its founding in 1762, the partnership resonates beyond sport. The maison’s identity rests on calculated risk, on the courage to see opportunity where others see only distance, and on the deep conviction that excellence requires both vision and meticulous execution.
The entire organisation, clients and friends alike, will follow each nautical mile of the passage. From the Bay of Biscay to the trade wind latitudes, through the waters that separate continents, the Maxi Edmond de Rothschild carries with it the weight of expectation and the lightness of a crew that has trained to perfection. Caudrelier’s defence of his title aboard a newly conceived vessel speaks to a house that understands permanence not as stasis, but as the cultivation of excellence across generations.
Imagery courtesy of Edmond de Rothschild (@edmondderothschild).
