Welcome to the New Class40 Website
The Class40 Association is delighted to announce the launch of its brand-new website, completely redesigned to provide a smoother, more intuitive and more immersive experience for the entire Class40 community.
Developed in partnership with VMG Studio, the new website features a simplified navigation, a clearer content structure and a clean, modern design that puts the spotlight on the boats, the skippers and the latest Class40 news.
Designed to meet today's digital expectations, the platform provides easy access to all the key information: an introduction to the Class40, news, the racing calendar, boat profiles, skipper profiles, results and dedicated resources for the Class40's various audiences.
The project also involved significant technical development to connect the website seamlessly with the Class40 database. This integration ensures that information is always accurate and up to date while offering a smoother browsing experience across the entire platform.
More than simply a new showcase, the website is a genuine tool designed to support every aspect of Class40 life. It will accompany the major events on the racing calendar, promote sporting projects and make information more accessible for skippers, teams, organisers, partners, media and offshore sailing enthusiasts alike.
Built with the future in mind, the platform has been designed to evolve alongside the Class40 and support the continued growth of the class in the years ahead.
The Class40 Association: "This new website reflects our ambition to provide a modern, user-friendly platform that serves the entire Class40 community. Our priority has been to improve readability, enhance the user experience and better showcase everything that makes the Class40 such a unique and dynamic class."
VMG Studio: "We quickly realised that this project went far beyond a simple website redesign. The real challenge was to preserve everything that makes the Class40 so rich today, while preparing the foundations for the next ten years and equipping the team with tools better suited to their day-to-day work.
The first stage focused on the public website. Our objective was to preserve the Class40's entire heritage—including archives, rankings, skipper and boat profiles, and more than a decade of news—while creating a smoother navigation experience, an interactive race calendar and a platform fully adapted to today's browsing habits, particularly on mobile devices.
The second stage, although less visible, was just as important: modernising the management platform used by the Class40 and its skippers. This central system stores the Class's data, official documents, boat files, sail inventories and racing records. We completely redesigned it to make it more secure, easier to develop and fully independent from the public website. The two platforms now communicate seamlessly, allowing the website to draw automatically from the database. This guarantees that information is always up to date while giving the Class40 greater flexibility to develop new tools and services in the future.
Finally, there is everything that remains invisible to users: the discussions, workshops, testing and countless refinements. This project was built together with the Class40 team—not alongside them. At VMG Studio, we strongly believe that the best projects emerge when technical expertise and operational experience come together. We'd like to thank the entire Class40 team for their trust throughout this exciting adventure."
À propos de la Class40
Depuis plus de vingt ans, la Class40 incarne une vision moderne de la course au large : exigeante, innovante et accessible. Réunissant une flotte internationale de monocoques de 40 pieds, elle offre un terrain d'expression privilégié aux skippers professionnels comme aux talents émergents. Grâce à un règlement favorisant la performance, la fiabilité et la maîtrise des budgets, la Class40 est aujourd'hui l'une des classes les plus dynamiques et attractives de la voile océanique, présente sur les plus grandes épreuves internationales.
À propos de VMG Studio
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