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Between two squalls, in the gusty wind of a Breton spring, we met an extra-terrestrial in the finally ultra-formatted world of modern professional sailing, Monsieur Francis Joyon.
As an experienced man is worth two, we had multiplied the entry points to maximise the chances of meeting our man. A wish to protect himself? Shyness? To live happily, live hidden? Through the combined efforts of our 'contacts', it was finally via the very orthodox channel of the communications agency which tries to manage this phenomenon that we met up on this Monday morning in April, aboard the giant red trimaran.
Arriving from Lorient, where the big stables shelter their warriors, covered in advertisements from head to toe, in glass and steel cathedrals, the contrast was striking. Here, at the very end of the Caradec quay at La Trinité sur Mer, Francis Joyon is preparing IDEC alone. "Usually on Mondays my father comes. But with rain forecast, I told him to stay at home." Francis prefers to work this way, in harmony with the weather and...the forecast! He can't see any use in burdening himself with a team all week if the only day of the week when the weather is fine and they can work is the Saturday...when they've left for the weekend !
Arriving from Lorient, where the big stables shelter their warriors, covered in advertisements from head to toe, in glass and steel cathedrals, the contrast was striking. Here, at the very end of the Caradec quay at La Trinité sur Mer, Francis Joyon is preparing IDEC alone. "Usually on Mondays my father comes. But with rain forecast, I told him to stay at home." Francis prefers to work this way, in harmony with the weather and...the forecast! He can't see any use in burdening himself with a team all week if the only day of the week when the weather is fine and they can work is the Saturday...when they've left for the weekend !
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