Postponed due to unfavorable weather, the start of the Route du Rhum 2022 should – finally!
– be given this Wednesday, November 9 at 2:15 p.m.
Competing in this 12th edition of the famous single-handed transatlantic sailing race, Romain Pilliard will set off aboard the trimaran
Use it again
, "the former boat of English sailor Ellen MacArthur, who won the world in 2005, specifies the Parisian skipper.
We have decided to give this super ship a second life”.
“When everything works, I am overproduced”
Although
Use It Again
is twenty years old, Romain Pilliard has equipped it with recent… and ecological technologies: “I have three means of producing green electricity: solar panels, wind turbines and hydrogenerators.
When everything works at the same time, it's absolutely brilliant because I am in overproduction,” he enthuses.
By his own admission, the navigator does not intend to reach Guadeloupe from Saint-Malo with the aim of winning: “first place has an ecological cost that is too high, he underlines.
Because when you want the fastest boat, equipped with the latest technology, you consume a lot of resources.
Personally, I want to show that you can sail on an 'old' boat alongside others, bigger and more efficient”.
Discover his “green project” in this video from our partner Brut.
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