What is the boat you have designed and you are the most fier??
That's the impossible answer. Every time you put yourself into it anyway. It's hard to make a ranking. Even though I really enjoyed working on the latest projects.
The Django 12.70 in collaboration with Pierre Rolland. The Explocat 52, there was an alignment of the stars to make this project I am very proud of. There are also the sailboats I made with Bord à Bord.
These are enriching experiences that build tomorrow. It's hard to choose just one boat. There are few projects you want to hide.
But my most beautiful project is my Samba 24, a cruiser-racer that I designed and built alone with a friend. I still have it today and I am moved to see my children sailing on it. They are very proud, it is a real cement in the family.
It took me 2 years to build it, it wasn't easy, and I'm still sailing with it. It's the boat I know best. I'm attached to it in a different way than all my other projects. On this construction project, I measured the scale of the task. I don't think I would build any other. This boat is the beginning of the story.
Nevertheless, there are many projects that are building us. It's an uninterrupted frieze. You can't tell the difference. Today's projects feed tomorrow's.
Beyond the professional, there are bonds that are created for each boat.
Which boat would you have liked dessiner??
A Grain de Sail or TOWT type cargo ship. These are interesting projects. It is precisely at the junction between our two areas of expertise, sailing and the professional boat.
Then there are a lot of boats, beautiful by their realization, in almost every field, that we would have liked to design. You have to make a choice and you rely on the agency's two areas of expertise. We are certainly going to have the project of a sailing fishing boat, but it has been maturing for a long time.
At the time I would have been contacted by TOWT, I would have been very happy to do so. Sailing is one of the most ecological and economical ways to get around. It's perfect for replacing carbon energy. Sailing is quite magical. We need to make progress. We need to test models that don't exist yet.
What is the project you would have liked travailler? to work on?
I work on a speedboat. We've done several voyage boats in the past, notably with Pierre Rolland, but they've never been carried by shipyards. They have always been single projects.
It's something that intrigues me about the journey today, in the world we live in, with the last year we've just experienced. How will we travel après?? Will we go to the same destinations?? Will we go to même?? Will we always go to voile?? The motorized travel boat has its limits in terms of fuel.
The travel boat is a reflection that animates me quite a lot. We've been thinking about it a bit. In our profession, we never invent. We propose an arrangement of things that already exist and innovation is a part of it. We create an innovative cocktail of proposals that already exist.
For professional boats, you can't venture into the seas with wobbly solutions. It has to be "Sea proven". Something that's proven itself.
There is a demand to be conservative or suspicious of revolutionary developments that 'have not proven themselves. I think that whoever proposes something new to a more or less profound knowledge of what has been done before. You are part of the continuity. We are reflecting on this and I hope that the project will soon become a reality. I think we have a vision to propose to the agency that is a little different from what is being proposed today.
I do not pretend to do something new, but new proposals. Generations renew themselves and we remain anchored in what marked us at a certain time in our lives. The notion of the great cruise, the discovery in a world where all you have to do is click on your phone to see the mouth of a river, to discover an animal, it makes you think.
Covid makes me think. Going to travel to see, having almost no more justification than mere curiosity. How will we travel in the next 20 years années?? The trip is not necessarily to go to the end of the world. France has a beautiful coastline.
I find this reflection on travel and displacement particularly interesting. Especially with the inventions, the electricity which is developing more and more in nautical activities, autonomy... It's a nice cocktail.
