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Publié le
19/07/2019
Par
Philippe Echelle
Numéro :
167
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2019
The case for centerboards by Sébastien Roubinet Sébastien is a skilled sportsman, an outstanding trainer, an adventurer of our blue planet – first ever transit of the Northwest Passage purely under sail with Babouche, three attempts to cross the Arctic with La Voie du Pôle - but also a super-creative naval architect and builder who doesn’t hesitate to innovate by following his own (often excellent) intuition! The centerboard is articulated on an axis located at the top and forward edge of its profile (a quarter circle). Its particularity - and its advantage - is that it will lift itself in the…