The Fora Marine shipyard had called on me in the spring to ferry from Portsmouth this RM 890 expected in La Rochelle for a SAV operation. Once the repairs were done, the English owner, eager to spend his summer holidays in South Brittany, asked me to take it back to La Roche Bernard. This short […]
Author: Frederic Augendre
Five days with family on a 40 feet to get in trust
Every customer has their expectations, every boarding his program. This time, it was a matter of accompanying a small family who plans to buy a sailboat in a year or two for a sabbatical trip around the Mediterranean. Safety controls and procedures, reading of the map and nautical documents, planning and follow-up of the road, […]
Five days of coaching focused on double security and performance
I had already accompanied, in the search and the acquisition of a used sailboat, this customer wishing to start a cruise on a boat remaining compatible with a comfortable holiday with family. Over the course of the visits and the analysis of the market, we were able to clarify its program and its expectations, the […]
From Portsmouth to La Rochelle with a RM 890
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 […]
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 […]