In mid-December 2019, Louis Duc’s Class 40 capsized off the Azores as it returned to Europe after the Transat Jacques Vabre. Lipped after fourteen hours of waiting on the deck of their boat submerged by the waves, Duke and his crew man got away thanks to the efficiency of the Portuguese rescuers, but also thanks […]

The February edition of the British magazine Seahorse has just been published, with my article on the architect David Raison, author of a spectacular double at the end of 2019 on the ocean racing front. While proto 650 No. 865, the name of baptism Maximum, won the Minitransat for the second consecutive edition, the first […]

Three years earlier I had brought back to La Seyne sur Mer a J 111 that had just participated in the Middle Sea Race, this great Mediterranean classic whose route – more than 600 miles – makes the clockwise turn of a watch , Stromboli, the islands of Pantalleria and Lampedusa, before returning to Malta, […]

Once is not customary, it is as second that I embarked for this 1200 mile ferry aboard Lady of the Tropics, a 28-metre schooner on plan Auzépy Brenneur. I found this venerable lady of 30 years in the “great forms” of the Seyne-sur-Mer, the darses of the old shipyards dedicated to welcoming large yachts as […]

For the second time this season, and a week apart, I had the opportunity to order Escapade VI, the Feeling 546 rented by CG Sea. This time, the tenants (two couples of Swiss nationality) had booked the boat from Bastia. Cape Corsica offers a rather different atmosphere from the south of the island, wilder, rougher […]

Return to Corsica for this cruise aboard a Feeling 546, a very comfortable and very equipped cruiser welcoming eight people in addition to the skipper. Escapade VI has a huge owner cabin … which was drawn at random from Porto Vecchio between the four couples of friends who had rented the boat. My clients had […]

This photo is taken at the masthead of a Jeanneau 57, which used its drisse of large moulded sail (i.e. climbed back and forth with fixed point at the top and pulley on the head of the sail) at an abnormal speed. On a unit of this size, it is not easy to discern from […]

I committed some infidelities this summer to my first love, momentarily abandoning sailing for the engine. Flying speedboats or semi-rigids in the vicinity of Marseille, for customers who have booked a boat for the day but do not have a permit, it is a very nice way, between two boardings of longer duration, to change […]

Once is not custom, it is as second that I embarked on this Lagoon 620 for a quick conveyance from Canet-en-Roussillon to Porto-Vecchio. After returning from the West Indies in the spring, this charter catamaran had been under construction in Canet for the essential revision and maintenance work before the Mediterranean season, and it was […]