Web series / From press attaché to ocean racing skipper, Grégoire Chéron's gamble


Because he worked for several Route du Rhum and Vendée Globe skippers as a press attaché, Grégoire Chéron first made ocean racing a profession. In a while, however, it will be him who will be at the start of the Mini Transat 2021. He shares his adventure with us on video, of which this is the first episode.

Gregoire Chéron. If for the readers, this name will tend not to evoke anything to them, for us journalists, it is different. Because Grégoire is our press contact for many adventurers, starting with the Under The Pole expedition.

And precisely, to better understand the men and women he accompanies in their daily lives, he too has decided to take up a challenge! In 2021, he will cross the Atlantic on the smallest ocean racing yacht, a Mini 6.50! A challenge made all the more technical by the fact that Grégoire is 2 m tall!

To share this adventure with us, Grégoire gets on the other side of the camera and takes us with him into his daily life. Based on one video a month, he will tell us how he plans to prepare for the start of the Mini Transat. This is a first for this Parisian, who nevertheless carries the DNA of navigation within him, since he has been cruising since he was very young and owns his own boat in co-ownership.

In this first episode, we discover the young man's motivations and the difficulty for him to find his boat... Let's go!

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