INTERVIEW – While the battle rages in the Vendée Globe on the seas of the Deep South, the navigator recounts his oceanic adventures through the myths of navigation.
Last Tuesday, at lunchtime. A stopover in La Baule, stronghold of Loïck Peyron, plunged into fog. A time not to go out to sea. A few meters from the beach, the 65-year-old sailor invites us to the Brigitte restaurant to talk about the Vendée Globe, the legend of which he helped to write, finishing second in an epic first edition in 1989. -1990, then to answer questions from Figaro on its relationship to the myths of navigation. The man who has won everything or almost, and who continues to sail when he is not working with the CDK Technologies shipyard on the sails of the future for carbon-free maritime transport cargo ships, gives us some episodes from a life of exceptional adventures.
LE FIGARO. – The Vendée Globe sailors will soon pass Cape Horn, the ultimate cape and myth for any sailor. What memories did you keep of it? ?
LOÏCK PEYRON. – It's crazy. In the ancient navy, boats could take a month to attempt…
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