Legend of offshore race, the navigator immortalized by a song by Renaud has always put his notoriety at the service of the fights which were close to his heart. From the environmental cause for the defense of the cultural heritage of Brittany to solidarity with migrants, a portrait of a long -term humanist.
By withdrawing, a bright winter day leaves on the Gulf of Morbihan metallic reflections. The boots in the water, the head covered with a blue cap, Eugène Riguidel observes her daughter Léla bring her back to the quay, to the bundle, one of her boats: “La Patrice”, a V -6, 6, 30 meters, punctuated and habitable, built in the 1960s. They must clean the shell, when the tide was removed.
A whole flotilla with which he takes care is moored there: there is also a cheetah, the “laughing”, and the “Florence”, a small flat which he thus baptized in memory of a dear friend, the navigator Florence Arthaud , first Frenchwoman to win the Route du Rhum in 1990, suddenly died in a helicopter accident in Argentina, in 2015, during the shooting of a television program.
No engine here. “Maintaining wooden boats is work, but it’s worth it. I swallow, I train when necessary, smiles the sailor. Motors should be banned in the Gulf, make an experimental territory to find other modes of propulsion than hydrocarbons, deadly ”.
