What is your first memory at mer??
I discovered sailing in the West Indies. I lived on a boat and was part of a group of young people called "Les Expéditions Jules Verne". We were completely rebuilding a kind of dinghy, we were doing a lot of tinkering and trying to find parts left and right for the "tuner".
Which boat left you the best souvenir??
My last Proto in Mini. Without hesitation.
What is your greatest success with marin??
My greatest success is to have won the Mini Transat twice. A first time in series on my Ofcet N° 866 and a second time in Proto on Griffon.fr.
On a daily basis, what is your practice of plaisance??
I don't do pleasure anymore, it frustrates me a little bit, but I devote myself to running. I worked a lot at the Glénan. I took a year-long trip with my partner on the boat we were living on.
If you hadn't been a skipper, what would you have fait??
I would have liked to go gliding. It would have been more complicated to live on it, that's for sure. But I have done a lot of gliding and it's something I really like.
Portrait
Ian Lipinski is from the Paris region and after discovering the joys of the sea as a child, he will later obtain a degree in engineering from Supaéro. If his first passion is gliding, he later became a sailing instructor in Les Glénans before embarking on a trip on the Atlantic with his partner.
In 2012, he made his first steps in the Mini Class by buying a second-hand Pogo 2. After several podiums, he won his first victory in 2013 on the MiniFastnet.
The 2013 Mini Transat promises to be complicated due to difficult weather conditions. After a capsize, he was rescued off the coast of Portugal.
He is embarking on a 2nd campaign in Mini 6.50 but this time on board an Ofcet, in which he participated in the construction.
On the Transgascogne, Ian won both stages on his Ofcet N° 866, before winning both stages of the Mini Transat 2015 in series.
For the next edition - 2017 - it changes boat and goes into prototype with a David Raison plan for 2014 on the round bow. While his first year of training is to be devoted to discovering his boat, Ian Lipinski is taking all the victories in the races in which he participates - 7 at total?! The same is true for the 2nd year, before another victory in the 2017 Mini Transat, this time on a proto basis.
Now, it is a new challenge that Ian Lipinski is about to take up, a season in the Class40 with the construction of a new boat
