AWA

19/06/2025

AWA78
Apparent Wind Activities -2025

19/06/2025

Alibi interior Sketch. 2011
Apparent Wind Activities

19/06/2025

AWA 78, equiped with ACC wing.
Apparent Wind Activities - 2025
TRIMARAN

19/06/2025

Foiler catamaran concept with inflatable tent.
2012 Apparent Wind Activities

19/06/2025

Maxi trimaran design - 2011

Apparent Wind Activities
TRIMARAN

12/06/2025

AWA

In 2011, Loïc Goepfert founded Alibi Catamarans, a rather unconventional boatyard driven by a desire to push boundaries: lightness, performance, radical thinking. Far from the beaten path.

There, we imagined fast, agile boats often ahead of their time, though history had other plans. The adventure came to an end in 2017. Design, sales, construction... it was a lot for just a handful of people.

Loïc then went on to design racing yachts alongside his lifelong friend Guillaume Verdier, contributing to projects that reached the highest levels of the sport: 11th Hour, Gitana, Macif... quite a few wins! A journey that still runs alongside AWA today.

As for me, Julien, I returned to product design, working on numerous projects and creating hundreds of products at Decathlon. Eventually becoming design lead for their new kite and wing foil brand. Sometimes joining Loïc and Guillaume in offshore racing.

Two different paths, but the same energy. And we never really stopped collaborating, a sketched idea here, a prototype to test there, something we just had to explore purely out of passion.

In 2023, we decided to give it a framework. Not a company, not a brand, just a shared platform for experimentation.

Apparent Wind Association, Apparent Wind Architecture, Apparent Wind Activities, Apparent Wind Apparatus... It will likely take many forms.

The idea: to create craft that harness apparent wind to its fullest — that unique wind speed felt by a moving vessel which, when mastered, allows you to go faster than the wind itself. A lifelong obsession.

Since then, we've been designing foilers, wings, and cutting edge boardsport gear where. Any objects built to go fast, sometimes to fly. A shared obsession with capturing every breath of wind across the ocean.

And always, the desire to share on the water what’s been driving us from the very beginning. Our creations will often be infused with new technologies, giving owner-helmsmen even more control and pleasure at sea.

We can't wait to share all these new designs, along with the upcoming offshore racing boats we’re developing with Guillaume, right here on this new page and on Instagram.

Perhaps this will foster conversations, meaningful exchanges, and wonderful encounters.

Loïc Goepfert, Julien Boucher

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24/01/2017

Dear All !
ALIBI will be at the Düsseldorf Boat Show. We will be waiting for you from the 21th to the 29th of January, Hall 15 / B63. https://www.facebook.com/boot.duesseldorf/?fref=ts&rf=143758232301994

Die boot Düsseldorf ist die jährlich im Januar stattfindende Wassersportmesse der Messe Düsseldorf.

02/10/2015

Light wind, good speed... exactly what we are looking for !

24/09/2015

A very nice Cannes Yachting Festival for Alibi.
Thanks all for visiting us. Next meeting, Salon du Leman, Geneve 13-15/11

11/09/2015

http://www.alibi-catamarans.com/

Discover our brand new website with a real time configurator calculating the cost, weight and remaining payload of your future catamaran based on the selected options.

Découvrez notre tout nouveau site internet avec un configurateur exclusif qui calcule en temps réel le prix, le poids et la charge utile restante en fonction des options sélectionnées pour votre futur catamaran !

Innovative catamarans to cruise around the world. Sail, design and hybrid propulsion United in one sailboat.

11/08/2015

Let's discover Alibi Catamarans latest video focused on performance and fast profile of our boats

Visit our Youtube Channel to watch Alibi's movies
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDQZht4agI3oIOiAyqLBpQ

23/07/2015