One hull in America, one hull in Europe?
An hour and a half interview via Skype. No less than that would have been required to discover the rather original route taken by Franck Bauguil. He shared his real passion for boating in general and multihulls in particular and we traveled together through the last thirty years of the history of cruising multihulls. His French is of course irreproachable, but often English words come to him more easily. But given that he’s lived in the United States for the past 30 years, it’s not really surprising... It’s a good thing he has a “transparent” first name, like those identical words in English and French.
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Publié le
22/09/2020
Par
Paul Thomas
Numéro :
174
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2020
Like your favorite magazine, he is of French provenance but has been living in the United States for so long that one would almost forget his origins. He hasn’t forgotten anything about his childhood in Brittany though, first in the north and then in the south, in La Trinité-sur-Mer to be precise. A land of yacht racing - an activity he practices assiduously - but above all, the cradle of French multihull ocean racing. He watched, fascinated, the racing machines of the Peyron brothers, or Mike Birch, flying along on one hull, four to five times faster than the monohull (however fast it might h…
