Tag: sailboat
It’s signed, the largest sailboat in the world will be a French liner
A “new era” is dawning for the shipbuilding industry. The group French hotelier Accorthrough its Orient Express subsidiaryhas in fact placed an order with Chantiers de l’Atlantique for the first…
Up to 17 years in prison for traffickers who transported two tonnes of cocaine by sailboat
The special assize court in Paris sentenced ten people on Thursday evening to sentences ranging from five to seventeen years in prison for their participation in international cocaine trafficking, conveyed…
To make Corsica-continent, these travelers opt for the sailboat for a more sustainable and “soothing” crossing.
“A very positive assessment,” says Marianne, one of the two skippers of the Nice adventurethe 15-meter sailboat aboard which sailcoop transports passengers between Corsica and the mainland. “We’re pretty full.…
A French skipper miraculously after spending sixteen hours under the hull of his overturned sailboat
The rescue of Laurent Camprubi is a miracle. The French skipper spent a night at sea, stuck under his overturned sailboat, in a 30 centimeter air pocket. He was rescued…
Sailed around the world in a sailboat – four meters long and self-built
Yann Quenet Frenchman sails around the world – in a four meter long self-built sailing boat Yann Quénet on board his “Baluchon”. After three years of sailing around the world,…
Belco plans to import thousands of tons of coffee by sailboat from 2026
Yes it’s a publicity stunt, but totally assumed. Specialized in the importation of “green” coffee (respectful of the environment), the Belco company, based in Mérignac (Gironde), brought for the first…
the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle collided with a sailboat
The aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle collided with a sailboat on Friday morning off Toulon, announced the maritime prefecture of the Mediterranean. “The consequences are only material, the sailboat having dismasted, and…
ten Syrian refugees disembarked from a sailboat in Porto-Vecchio
According to information from France Blue, ten Syrian refugees disembarked from a sailboat, visibly broken down and coming from Turkey, in the port of Porto-Vecchio in Corsica, on the night…
A rental sailboat sinks in minutes, the seven passengers rescued
They had left Saint-Malo with a 12m rental sailboat that he had just recovered. The seven Belgian tourists will not have been far. While they had traveled about sixty nautical…
The “Entrepreneur for the planet” sailboat is preparing for the Transat Jacques Vabre and the ecological transition
The class 40 sailboat – Entrepreneur for the planet The class 40 “Entrepreneur for the planet” sailboat, skippered by Sébastien Audigane, will participate in offshore races such as the Jacques…