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Édouard De Keyser - Zero fossil fuels 2023
Passionate since the age of seven thanks to the inspiration of his family holidays in Brittany, Édouard has always dreamed of the ocean. In the middle of his university studies, he took a sabbatical year to taste a first experience crossing the Atlantic Ocean during a solo mini-transatlantic race. This enriching experience gave him the desire to repeat this decisive feat.
This great dreamer wants to win the "Global Solo Challenge", a world tour that he will undertake in mid-September 2023. The WATTUNEED team decided to participate in Édouard De Keyser's ecological project. His big dream is to travel the "Himalayas of the sea".
After working a good part of his life, he decided to participate in a race using as little fossil energy as possible on his sailboat. This Brussels resident will leave for the "Three Great Capes" and Antarctica, a perilous journey into the unknown, confronted with the winds and waves that have capsized more than one.
Of course, the more developed safety conditions of our time as well as the previous experiences of other sailors will allow him to achieve his goal. For five months, his mental and physical skills will be put to the test. Alone, but with practice, he decided to take the risk.
©Edouard de Keyser
Quentin Vlamynck - Objectif Mini Transat 2015
A Young Skipper full of promise!
Having started sailing at the age of 10, the desire to take off is always felt by observing from more or less far the departures of major offshore races. A quick passage in a dinghy to learn the basics, but much more navigation in habitable. I also have my sailing instructor, and I supervised a club team in Optimist for a year. At the age of 21, I set myself the challenge of being on the starting line of the Mini-Transat 2015.
Wide Lens
Organized every 2 years, the mini transat is a transatlantic race that takes place solo and without assistance aboard 6.50m sailboats. Created in 1997 by the British Bob Salmon, the race connects Douarnenez, Lanzarote and Pointe-à-Pitre and is off the beaten track.
A prestigious race that revives the adventurous spirit of the first transatlantic since the competitors have only the technical minimum necessary for the crossing! Even today, this regatta is the pinnacle of the Mini class course.
A true school of offshore and solo racing, the skipper must be versatile and autonomous but also efficient to meet the requirements of a race known as difficult as it is formative! A challenge for which Quentin is ready! www.quentinvlamynck.fr
Jacques Riguidel - Around the world
A man of sensations
For Jacques Riguidel, sailing alone is going in search of oneself, it is embarking on a fundamentally human adventure. "Listen to the wind, observe the sea, decide, foresee, anticipate, think, live your dream day after day, freedom is at this price, happiness too" (Excerpt from a solar world tour ..)
Jacques Riguidel is not looking to win a race. His world tour is not based on the confrontation of competitors, but rather on the search for oneself... After having tested his pragmatism by careful preparation, the navigator will once again go to sea in search of solitude, his sensations, and his emotions. Practicing sailing provides the pleasure of skiing, the pleasure of feeling the boat move as well as possible with the wind, being on the lookout for clues that allow you to understand the reactions of the boat. Jacques sails out to sea with the minimum of instruments, limiting himself to what is strictly necessary. Indeed, the instruments block sensations. This requires a receptive, vigilant state of mind, as well as permanent concentration. Traveling is the opposite of dreaming, it is concrete in travel, we are in the deeply human, in the physical: the body transmits its sensations to us, we learn to grasp them. Traveling is not something superhuman. On the contrary, it is the human being pushed to the extreme.
A man of reflection
Jacques Riguidel's world tour serves as an example and alerts on the urgency of working to save the planet. We live in totally different worlds, with opposite values. Here luxury tramp in maritime orbit, there frozen consumer, modest and resigned, well programmed from childhood to consume, acquire, accumulate, protect himself. [excerpt from Around the World in Solar, 96th day] The first circumnavigation of the world undertaken by Jacques was already remarkable for the economy of means implemented. Once again, Jacques embarks on a useful adventure with his second round-the-world trip. For our sailor judoka, the common point between sailing and Judo is the optimal use of energy. Sailing applies this fundamental principle of Judo insofar as it transforms the energy of the wind into speed. For the navigator, the idea of energy optimization corresponds to a way of being. Jacques' technical choices illustrate a major idea: great things can be done with limited means. Large projects do not necessarily mean wasted energy. The navigator wants to travel differently and show that it is possible to do the Grand Tour with a minimum of energy. A sailboat offshore looks like the land in the universe. It has the energy of the sun and must respect the balance between production and consumption.
www.jacques-riguidel.com
Hervé Moine and Éric Decellières (Team France 2) 58th Gordon Bennett Aeronautical Cup
"Each balloon flight is a new adventure, with all that it entails of discovering new limits: those of humans, those of meteorological tools, those of our aerostatic ship." We will participate in the Gordon Bennett Aeronautical Cup with the utmost commitment, that is to say by pushing all the cursors to the known limits when necessary, and with a certain taste for the adventure still possible today in this mythical race".
Hervé Moine (Nord - Pas-de-Calais and Picardy)
The youngest competitor on the famous Gordon Bennett race, ranked 5th out of 18 international crews, 668 km against 1,402 km for the winner, his instructor!
Experiences
Eric Decellières (Burgundy)
Departure to Vichy of the Gordon Bennett from August 28 to September 6, 2014. The take-off of each balloon is done from a podium to the sound of the national anthem, and to the applause of the public. Attracting thousands of visitors to the take-off site in the 1920s and 1930s, the Gordon Bennett Aeronautical Cup demonstrates today of an extraordinary enthusiasm of the public. The balloon trip is still as dreamy!
Yann CLAVERIE - PROJECT Mini Transat 2015
I pulled my first dinghy edges 20 years ago in Le Havre. Since then, it is a real passion that was born and that led me first to the cruise that I practiced as a Skipper with my First 30 for 7 years, then to the regatta that I started in 2004 on different IRC media (X302, X332, J80, J105, First 33.7, Sun Fast 32, etc ...). My attraction to the Mini 6.50 and what they represent is old. It is therefore natural that I seized the opportunity to acquire one in 2012 in order to start solo offshore racing.
Everything is now in place to carry out this offshore racing project so GO GO GO !!
Around the world in a zero-emission sailboat
Béranger, François, Martin and Pierre
Four friends, graduates of business and engineering schools.
The idea is to transform a sailboat from 1978 into a totally autonomous vessel energetically, capable of crossing the globe without a drop of gasoline.
The realization: install industrialized systems and therefore available to all. Prove the reliability of green technologies used at the end of the world to promote sustainable mobility and use their limited means as young graduates to demonstrate the accessibility of these practices to the majority of boaters.
PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
A global ecological approach: equipment and products used, food, respect for ecosystems, etc. The realization of marine scientific missions: laying beacons, sampling, observations of ecosystems.
SENSITIZATION
A bi-monthly web-series combining navigation, discovery of stopover regions, meetings around the world and presentation of ecological actions on board and on land. Follow-up of the project by many schoolchildren and hospitalized children: a continuous link with the crew and educational activities to discover nature and ways to protect it.
Video presentation of the project:
Video "Electric propulsion and energy autonomy":
Here's how Amasia, their boat moves autonomously and responsibly.
A Wattuneed solar installation, Naviwatt electric propulsion, ATMB wind turbine, ODC Marine storage system, Sevron motor controllers, Leroy Somer electric motors.
Four on two deckchairs
Eléonore, Arthur, Alexandre and Timothée are four long-time friends, passionate about sailing and adventure. They want to take on a major challenge: sailing around the Atlantic Ocean on a boat that they have restored and transformed themselves.
TRANSMISSION
At the heart of this adventure, a solidarity mission drives them: to transmit their passion for sailing to sick, disabled or out-of-school children. In contact with nearly forty children, they will put them on their boat in Marseille and then write them an interactive logbook every week for nine months. Through reading and writing, they offer them a way to learn differently and discover other horizons!
CONNECTION
Connection is more of an entrepreneurial goal. Business school students, these four young people will sail in partnership with several nautical startups to contribute to their expansion and boost their clientele in the areas where they will travel.
DEPARTURE AND PROGRAM
The departure is scheduled for September 2016!
The choice of boat is probably what catches their attention the most during these long months of preparation. they need to find a boat that will allow them to cross the Atlantic twice in one year.
They will drop the sails of Brittany or the Mediterranean depending on where they find the ideal boat! The first stop will be the Iberian Peninsula or the Strait of Gibraltar... Story to follow on their website www.aquatresurdeuxtransats.com/
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