Roland Jourdain: Prioritizing the environment
How can you not like Roland Jourdain? That’s the question I was asking myself after a meeting with the Breton, at the launch of his catamaran We Explore at Outremer Yachting. Built partly out of linen fiber, this 5X will be on the start line for the next Route du Rhum. Bilou’s smile is seductive, his immense record of successes is admirable... and to top it all off, the skipper remains humble and has a dry sense of humor.
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Publié le
30/06/2022
Par
François Trégouët
Numéro :
SP18
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2022
As a teenager, Roland cut his teeth on the water in what he called his “Bermuda Triangle“: the Brittany ports of Concarneau, Cape Coz and Port-La-Forêt. His friends were Michel Desjoyeaux, Jean Le Cam and Jean-Luc Nélias. They had the same passion, and so they ended up with the same profession: ocean racer. They were the ones who popularized the nickname “Bilou“, but it was he alone who earned one of the best records in French sailing, including two victories in the Route du Rhum and three appearances in the Vendée Globe (3rd in 2001). As for the Solitaire du Figaro, he took to it like oysters…
