Which boat did you design and are you most proud of?
There are many, but I would choose 2 in particular.
The Mini 6.50 International Amnesty. This is the second boat I designed. It has a beautiful history. It won the Mini Transat 1993 in difficult conditions and gave birth to the Mini de Série Pogo.
The Superbigou of course! Because it's an exceptional story. It also allowed me to get known, it's a small environment.
What boat would you have liked to draw?
I'm going to be a bit old-fashioned. Today's production boats have the disadvantage of all looking alike. Before, we used to see a Muscadet, an Armagnac, we could identify them. Today, however, the Mojito is recognizable.
The Armagnac is a boat that made me dream when I was a teenager. I always liked what Jean-Marie Finot did.
There is also the Cigale 16, but we are going on something else. It's a travel boat.
What is the project you would like to work on?
I would love to redesign boats like I know how. One thing I'd like to do is design a vintage boat. A very nice classic composite boat. A boat that would look like a Pogo 8.50 or a Fabulo.
A boat that is shaped, without chine, with a rounded roof, putting aesthetics first, rather than functionality.
The boat I just built for myself, I took the hull of the Fabulo, designed 20 years ago, because I find it beautiful. Everyone looks at it, it is beautiful. I found myself the owner of the Fabulo's molds, and I decided to use them to build a boat for myself. It's a boat that I've always liked, but it wasn't built enough because the yard didn't last.
Moulds like that, boats like that, in a shipyard, are not viable. Because the molds have aged, the shapes are no longer up to date.
I like the aesthetic side of things that have gone out the window. There are fashions. Today, they are boats with a very wide transom. This has the advantage of bringing stability and volume, but it's hard to know who is what. The roofs are functional, much brighter, but angular.
