NEEL trimarans is designing and building cruising trimarans. Created in 2009, the NEEL 50 offers a new way of sailing.

Founded and managed by Eric Bruneel, NEEL-TRIMARANS is based in La Rochelle, the capital city of sailing in France.

NEEL-TRIMARANS surrounded itself with the best equipment and service suppliers for the construction of its trimarans.

Eric Bruneel, Entrepreneur

Eric Bruneel has more than 30 years of experience in the design and construction of multihulls, of which 26 (1983-2009) were devoted to the development of Fountaine-Pajot SA, the world leader of cruising catamarans, whose 2000th unit was delivered in August 2009, listed on Alternex Paris New York Stock Exchange in June 2007.
He has been successively Export and General Manager of the company, where he took an active part in catamarans creation and development.

In the 1980′s, he designed, with Joubert Nivelt, the CORNEEL 26, built by Fountaine-Pajot and elected boat of the year in 1987. He had previously designed and built the sports catamarans CORNEEL 18, winners of the main european regattas.

At the same time, Eric Bruneel is racing, thus improving his wide knowledge of multihulls behavior while seafaring.