During the night of March 20 to 21, 2017, a strange convoy joined the Eiffel Tower for a rather special exhibition. The monohull Initiatives Cur has reached the French capital by exceptional convoy to take its spring quarters on the Eiffel Tower ! Indeed, the boat will be installed on the first floor for a temporary exhibition of 6 weeks. Visitors to the Iron Lady will be able to discover this IMOCA 60, which carries an important mission: to enable children with heart disease to be operated on in France under the best conditions thanks to Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque.
This is obviously not the last Initiatives-Cur, on which Tanguy de Lamotte ran this 8 th edition of the Vendée Globe (just sold to Yannick Bestaven for the Vendée Globe 2020). This is the former Aquitaine Innovation by Yves Parlier, designed by architects Jean-Marie Finot and Pascal Conq and launched in 1996. Before its acquisition by Initiatives-Cur, it was in the hands of Yannick Bestaven, under the name Aquarelle.com. Since then it has been used for exhibitions - it could also be visited on the Vendée Globe village - and is easily recognisable with its cut keel.
It took nearly 4 hours to hoist this 18 m, 8 tonne monohull to the first floor of the Parisian monument. The boat is to be discovered until May 10, 2017 and it is a first in the history of the Eiffel Tower that such a com' operation is carried out.
