Ten days is the time that we have had to go down from La Rochelle to Lanzarote (Canary Islands) aboard this catamaran Lucia 40 flying the Canadian pavilion. This was the first stage of a Transat that should lead us to Saint Lucia (lesser Antilles) next December. By then the boat should be equipped with […]
Author: Frederic Augendre
Back to Cowes
I have been carrying out a consultancy mission to accompany a client in the acquisition of his future mount. Reflection on the expectations and the navigation program, establishment of a specification, choice of a sailboat size consistent with the goals sought, selection of the market models corresponding to the target. and “Pre-inspection” of used boats […]
2nd in IRC2 at the Morgan Cup
Thunder II is a proto 37 feet (11.43 m) on plan Mills Design, an Irish firm renowned in the Anglo-Saxon world of the habitable race. With its moderate width, its very balanced hull of rather classic inspiration, its long, retractable end, its diameter wheel bar and “This impression by looking at the back lines that […]
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 […]
From Nieuwpoort to La Rochelle en Elan 350
“Twice the road, three times the time, four times the growl,” says one when one has to inflict a navigation against the wind. Intellectual honesty compels the saying that the saying is not young, and that it refers back to a time when sailing ships were winding up like hooves. Today’s boats are frankly more […]
From Madeira to La Rochelle in JPK 1010
1100 miles on paper, 1400 on water. Five days of forced waiting in Madeira, three depressions, five packs of pasta, ten litres of diesel fuel, 15 hours under storm jib. Gust max 46 knots, max speed 16.6 knots. This journey to La Rochelle did not exactly induced melancholy. I was delighted to sail again on […]
From Frossay to Chichester
During this spring voyage, the idea was to accompany a couple of British owners who had just bought a Sun Odyssey 45 DS (for Deck Saloon) in the Loire-Atlantique and wanted to relocate her to the south coast of England. The passage from dry harbour “Les Portes de l’Atlantique”, located in Frossay sur la Loire […]
In Bahamas transluscent waters
While Europe was sinking into the heart of winter, I was in the Bahamas, serving a customer who had delivered by cargo his trimaran, a Corsair 970 Cruze. Reception of the boat, preparation and development, it could be the occasion to see that there is nothing really simple for the crew of a sailboat: for […]
Yachtmaster Ocean Certification
My certification goes up a notch, with the “Yachtmaster Ocean” patent that has just been issued to me by the Royal yachting Association. According to the very terms of the RYA, approved by the MCA (the British Coastguards) for the issuance of the command patents of ships under 200 GT (about less than 24 m), […]