Unbelievable Nasturtium! This young woman crossed the Atlantic on Tara Tari, a sailboat certainly not imagined for the high seas.
Backwards. At the end of 2009 Corentin de Chatelperron, a young engineer with an angel's mouth, built a small sailing boat in Bangladesh based on the plans of traditional fishing boats. For this manufacture he uses burlap trying to prove that this locally produced material could replace fiberglass and help local fishermen to make boats with it. To prove his claims and validate his construction, Corentin embarked on his boat in Bangladesh and sailed all the way to France, reaching the Mediterranean coast in August 2010.
Capucine then met Corentin at the Paris boat show. Her spirits are low because she's suffering from an orphan disease. Her body is only in pain and she has difficulty standing or walking more than 100 m.
Finally she decides to rebuild herself by embarking on Tara Tari to extend her journey. Leaving La Ciotat, she wants to cross the Atlantic. It's hard to imagine such a frail skiff in the middle of the ocean. Indeed if Tara Tari is 9 m long, it is very narrow (2 m at the widest) and pointed at the front as well as at the back. Most importantly, her freeboard is no more than a foot. He's really down to earth. If we consider that his cabin has no more volume than a small tent, we wonder what goes through the head of Capucine to want to embark on this boat.
It is precisely this kind of criticism that she has had to face throughout the journey she tells us about in this book. A hard journey, but one that shows that will drives you to do beautiful things. Of course the navigation was not easy, the boat had a water voice and was about 30 liters every 2 hours (oops!), and installed at water level Capucine was copiously watered.
Very well written, with very beautiful moments of pleasure at sea told by Capucine, this course is in no way a tale of a transat. It is rather a question of accompanying Capucine in her quest for life, her search for "happy sobriety". A true delight of reading that enlightens our daily life and makes us think.
Tara Tari My wings, my freedom as a Nasturtium Hound
- Editions Arthaud
- 22 x 13.6 cm
- 288 pages
- 19.90 euros
