Delivering this RM 890 on behalf Fora Marine (french builder or plywood/epoxy Lombard design), I discovered a small boat but very sympathetic yacht. Inside the cabin you fill like in a bigger boat, and I experienced very nice performances, reaching at 7.5 to 8 knots with 15 to 18 knots of breeze. While a trough […]
Author: Frederic Augendre
Coaching in Marseille
A couple of customers, eager to access the autonomy in coastal cruising, ordered me two days of boat tuition aboard a Sunfast 32i chartered in Marseille. Mixing practical and theory, the week-end was an intense one. Technical checkings and safety briefing, harbour manoeuvres in different situations and with different wind directions, anchorages, sails manoeuvres and […]
The Juris Cup in great Surprise with the bar of Paris
For the Juris Cup, a regatta involving lawyers from all over France and even a few foreign countries in Marseille, the Paris bar hired me as a coach for two afternoons of training and the first day of competition, knowing that for the After the event the boat found its full crew and its usual […]
Cowes-Cherbourg en Mills 37
East or West? Downwind, or wind of the direct road? For Cowes-Cherbourg, the last race of the OCRN season (the very British Royal Ocean Racing Club), I found my Russian customers of the Morgan Cup on board their proto Mills 37 Thunder II. In the tide of whitewater, and with moderate to low winds, the […]
Bay of Biscay express with Pogo 1250
From Benodet (South Britany) to Gijon (Asturias, North of Spain), and return : two fast passages on a Pogo 1250, Finot-Conq design, with guests who wanted to have a skipper onboard for their first offshore navigation.
From La Rochelle to the Canary Islands with a Lucia 40
Ten days is the time that we have had to go down from La Rochelle to Lanzarote (Canary Islands) aboard this catamaran Lucia 40 from Fountaine-Pajot, flying the Canadian pavilion. This was the first stage of a transatlantic passage that should lead us to Saint Lucia (lesser Antilles) next December. By then the boat should […]
Back to Cowes
I have been carrying out a consultancy mission to accompany a client in the acquisition of his future cruiser-racer. This is how the day after the Morgan Cup I was in Cowes to visit a Elan 350. In this small town I have accumulated so many memories, since my first stopover with the family boat until […]
2nd in IRC2 at the Morgan Cup
Thunder II is a Mills 37, built in 2000 for an English racer who has gleaned success and places of honor as much in crew as in double, and now in the hands of a Russian owner leaving in London, who called on my services as coach and tactician for the Morgan Cup. The course […]
Second on Bertrand de Broca’s catamaran
I interviewed him more than once in the last twenty or thirty years, I had also put my name, for a few tens of euros and among hundreds of others, on the hull of his sailboat departing from one of his Vendée Globe. Let’s say so: With Bertrand de pitcher, we know each other for […]
From Fréjus to Bastia in UFO 36
There is no small conveyance, there are only small crossings. 140,000 from Fréjus to Bastia, a night under the stars and just over 24 hours of sailing, it is certainly not the sea to drink. This will nonetheless be an excellent memory, that of having accompanied a charming owner, dubbed by a humanist. And the […]