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 […]
Author: Frederic Augendre
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 […]
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 […]