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during the recent table assaults
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I always liked to read as soon as I
could understand the meaning of words I
am started in body reading
lost I used myself extensively in the
family library must be said
that she was well stocked between jack
london
Jules Verne Paul Emile Victor Antoine
saint-exupéry who only had
spoiled for choice
they were all there but among all
the books I devoured the one who
puts the most expensive today this is the one
this is the very first book I have
offered my grandmother while I
was only five or six years later
the age of my daughter that you see on
the image
this book I have read him sometimes late
in the night in the light of a small
flash light
I have memorized each line each
drawing every detail
so much so that his hero was
become like a friend with whom I
shared secrets this book it was
an entire atmosphere a world
wonderful and inaccessible that me
fascinated I do not know if he played a
decisive role in the life choices that
were mine afterwards but I
know he left a sacred
imprint in my memory
I imagine we all have an object
a book a music a place that we
connects to our childhood and reminds us
our childhood dreams but I imagine too
that some of us here we
tidied for a long time dreamed objects
or that they let them dilate
with time though if we go
reflected
he might not have been so futile
we want to believe it
in our daily life we leave
often overwhelmed by all kinds of
questions a sense we would like to give
to our existence their opportunity opportunity
missed we’re running out of steam to stay in
the race until the moment when all that
seems completely absurd and
it is often there that resurfaces our
dream
maybe not exactly the one we
did in fact but a dream that we
makes you want to drop everything
sails to change course
dreaming is already nourishing an idea
a desire then we get excited we believe
we draw shots on the comet and then
we let ourselves be caught again by the
everyday and things stay like
they are crossing the Atlantic at
the row then kiteboat going
scrub to the pacific then to the ocean
Arctic and thus pursuing my
road I want well beyond my
dreams
I try to make sense of my life
become who I am
deep inside me we do not know 100 g
so an impression of finding my place
to be exactly where I
must be where I can achieve
fully and express myself fully
we all have a place on this
earth and it seems to me that daring
follow our dreams
it’s a nice way to find it if
we say it identifies our true desires
and that we cross this first case
quickly realize energy as a small
internal engine getting going
it’s pushing us forward
then frees himself from us between havas and
you can go through the stages
following
obviously we do not cross
Atlantic at the oar of the day at the
next day it’s getting ready is rather
minutely
that said I’m part of a universe that I
already knew to have sailed
Since I was young
but I put it aside when I
I went to live ten years in the states
united at that moment I will be able
something else until I have
got tired I packed my bags
I went back to Brittany during my
absence
my father had built a schoolchild in
wood
it is thanks to her that I renault
with the ocean it’s thanks to her too
that I realized how much
universe had missed me so after
have rowed on the same body of water
for months I wanted to go out
of the frame go further and go more
far away when one is Breton she
built the horizon go on the other
side
just it was like a click
An evidence
cross the Atlantic at oars and
lonely that was what I wanted
to do and not something else so two years
after my return from the united states
but here in the middle of the ocean
on a boat the size of a car
in a little more spartan a space to
the front to store the food and
the equipment of a central cockpit for
the engine me in this case hateful
cabin on the back that in the picture or
small tents that are thrown away
deploys me as a shelter
I suddenly find myself tiny
facing the immensity tossed between the
sky and the sea
I understand very quickly that he will have to
adapt myself because on this ground the slightest
mistake can be very expensive I will
insure it’s crazy the resources we get
discover in these moments there
this adaptability which is the
ours probably because all our
senses are awake but certainly
also because we have no other choice
get out of his comfort zone we
weakens disturb us there all lived
at one time or another a
new experience and one finds oneself
completely destabilized by that
all our codes become totally
unknown a few years ago
my satellite phone fell into
breakdown
I had just left the coast of
Peru and I rallied Polynesia
about 7000 kilometers further in
solitary this anecdote may seem
innocuous for a landlady but for a
sailor this phone is the only one and
unique connection to the land and
reciprocally
it was March 11, 2011
I do not know if you remember but my
sponsor had just called me for
announce me the nuclear accident of
fukushima
a tsunami were expected on
Peruvian coasts
I had to get away from it at most
quickly and then and nothing
the communication was cut off as
it often happens with phones
satellites
I did not really worry all
I waited an hour
retried nothing two hours on
three hours still nothing I waited
one day then two and then three
you swear when the accounts and at the end
of a week I had to take
make it clear I was
permanently cut off from the rest of
world is down to earth nobody knew
really what about me the
time stopped
loneliness has taken its true meaning
and in the early days I had
the impression of disappearing as
erase of the world of the living and more I
cogitais more behind
I imagined that part of the
planet had been scratched from the
map that maybe Polynesia had
disappeared submerged by a wave
gigantic when you’re alone
doubt settles and fatigue
we damn sound the spirit that’s
difficult to keep the right course until
when we let go and we
accept the situation
I was alive the boat advancing in
the right way
the goal stayed the same no
major change on the horizon the only
solution was to continue the road
no matter the cost
and that’s exactly what I did
I continued for 78 days alone and
at the end of the road
I found Polynesia but I
found much more than that still
company presents risks
you know I knew him face up to
bad weather conditions
manage a capsizing damage
these were situations for which
I had prepared before departure
a nuclear disaster not
frankly
she’s the one who helped me understand
that despite careful preparation
and although having anticipated many
traps
there was always a share of unforeseen
that you had to be willing to accept
whether it’s a cargo ship the 200 m that makes
road on me who did not see me despite
my many calls to the vhf or a
hurricane that changes its course that comes from
hit hard
it can also be the announcement of
death of someone close to you
will not hug in the arms on arrival
in those dark hours better at doing it the
round back
let things arise and avoid
that emotions do not overwhelm these
moments there are like turns
winding
it is necessary to negotiate
dead ends
in any case they must never be
an excuse to do nothing because
to stop living for fear of dying
it’s not the solution
everywhere in the world every day
lots of people are dying and no more people
have decided to follow their dream that
the others I am often told
it’s not the same that I take more than
risks that I play with death but the
life in itself is unpredictable and
death is hitting when she wants them
you I often
asked if the fear of death
do not hide a fear of living
quite simply
currently I am preparing my next
solitary solar expedition I
get ready next summer
gfr
in this Northwest Passage which is
legendary and legendary up there in the
Arctic Circle between Alaska and the
Greenland
I see you would do aboard a small
prototype only powered to
solar energy I will ship for
go sailing in the wake of to
bout of siac the little eskimos whose
childhood
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crouched
it’s not over to live
maybe some of you have it
read paul emile victor there are many
magic but where in the arctic
very honestly there are many more
still there are two of that were my
road crossed that of the nec
the king of the arctic the polar bear
suddenly they were there more than one
drawing printed on a sheet of
a living paper imposing on 300
meters in front of me him super comfortable
had spotted me since very, very
long time
me completely statufié I had nothing
seen coming
I swear to you that in a few seconds
feels completely helpless is
insignificant as you see there I
am safe
I’m still a little on the lookout the bear
lags in the corner and I would like to
avoid using it as a snack
I’m worried
but I remember very well at what
I was excited as a kid
who came to see Santa Claus because
that this meeting in the end it was
one of the most beautiful encounters of my
trip
she did all the magic
his dream opens the door to new
behaviors like this little canoe he
belongs to ed ed it’s a Canadian of
75 years old I met during my
very first stay at double take two
that they came to travel 1500 km all
alone along the Mackenzie River
he was completely exhausted but
so proud to have 100
beef it was rather small not
very strong no athlete at all
but the strength is not always what
we believe she is not measured
always to muscle mass or to
pounds of cast iron that we are able to
lift the dead force all the way through
his 1500 km was all support without
give up and that’s what is
remarkable
this strength that exists in each of us
fulfilling his dream opens the door to
new behaviors
a fresh look as tension ourselves
than on others we realize then that
our resources are well beyond
barriers that had been set and that
finally we are at the height of not
a lot of situations that we feared
for the last fifteen years that I have been leaving for
oceans I realize the low chance that
I offered to my existence to give
this very first drama and more I’m there
returns more I’m sure he
belongs to each of us to leave to
searching for his polar bears from
instinctive way in the heart of oneself for
reach out to other horizons
thank you
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