Catherine Chabaud, the first woman to complete a circumnavigation of the globe in a solo sailing race, breaks a bottle of champagne on the port side of Persévérance, in the shadow of Marseille’s “La Bonne Mère”, the patron saint of sailors and fishermen....
The skippers of the Vendée Globe sail single-handed for several weeks with the aim of winning the race. They are now starting to take scientific equipment on board, but any measuring instruments must be autonomous, small, light and resistant in order to record data...
The motorization of the sailboat allows her to go to the poles, it filters its emissions of particles and nitrogen oxide, and she travels as much as possible by sail. Image: Polar Pod The Piriou shipyard has just delivered the supply ship for the Polar Pod, a drifting...