The Harbor Council, meeting Wednesday morning, gave a favorable opinion to the installation of the navigator François Gabart and his stable Mer Concept, on the East dock.
It's almost done! Wednesday morning, the Harbor Council chaired by Pierre Karleskind, Vice President of the Region, owner of the port, gave a favorable opinion to the installation project of the navigator François Gabart and his stable Mer concept, now based in Port-au-Prince. la-Forêt, on the eastern pier of Concarneau harbor.
But it will take a little longer for Macif's skipper-entrepreneur, who is scheduled to start the 11th edition of the Route du Rhum in the Ultimate category, on Sunday, to unveil his entire project. The time that the authorization of occupation for the implantation of the building, whose procedure of attribution is instructed by the CCI metropolitan Brittany West, manager of the fishing port, completes the file.
Thirty people
The project includes, among other things, the construction of a building at the level of the wasteland located behind the harbor master's office.
In total, about thirty people are brought to settle in the premises. The Maxi-trimaran Macif, 30 meters long, 23 meters wide, and 14.5 tons, should anchor in front of the building, near the fishing port.
The impressive size of the Maxi-trimaran required extensive technical expertise for many months at the basin level. At stake, the accounting with the other activities of the port: shipbuilding-repair, fishing and yachting.
A 40 meter by 40 meter pontoon
"Many meetings with all stakeholders (1) have already taken place to study the conditions of docking and navigation of the Macif trimaran to the right of the east wharf," says the joint union of fishing ports-pleasure of Cornwall which had , among others, set up in spring buoys materializing the implantation of possible future pontoons. A test that had made it possible to "verify the best conditions for optimizing the occupation of the water body with a view to harmonious cohabitation of the different activities of the port. "
Meetings are also held with the architect of the buildings of France "who gave a favorable opinion to the solution chosen which consists of the establishment in the middle of the East dock of a 40 meters by 40 meters pontoon equipped with two piles. "
"By supporting this project" , the Cornouaille pleasure harbors union "and its partners intend to reinforce yachting and ocean racing, true vectors of development and a carrier of economic attractiveness for our territory" .
This favorable opinion will allow him to continue the administrative authorization procedures.
(1) Beyond the mixed union, port authority for the fishing-pleasure, the Region, owner of the port and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Brittany West (CCIMBO), manager of the fishing port, among others.