Piled in the hold adventure novels and history books. Fifty, no more: “I exchange them at each stop. “At 61, Peter Raffin-Caboisse knows what he likes, what he wants and how to obtain. -Saturday morning, he left Paimboeuf. He trimmed his mustache eternal, kissed his wife and three children, then took the sea for long months at sea: “Some are retiring at the end of life. I have taken a deposit while I was in shape, “laughs there. For the Canaries Islands, Easter Island, Noumea …
The Nantais has a world tour under his belt. Was in 1999, it took three years. At the time, he knocked on the trail Croisic Jacques-Yves Le Toumelin. This time, he sails in the wake of the Comte de La Perouse, left stranded in 1788 with his expedition on the coral Vanikoro north of New Caledonia. Eighty sailors had survived the shipwreck, built a canoe and left the island for a destination remained unknown.
Pierre leaves take their news, listen to legends and anecdotes. Once there, he will Noumea base until 2015, exploring six months a year the roads would have been able to borrow the shipwrecked “I hope to find some descendants. ”
His eyes are filled with crinkled insurance. She is passionate about this story, he who devours everything concerning the sailors of the eighteenth century and preparing a book on Bougainville. Adventurer knows: “It will not be easy to talk to the locals. He relies on Babar, his replica wooden lobster boat acquired in 1994. This boat, “we want to go to him. “Peter has been preparing for months on hold # 2 in Nantes. “He looks solid, but a breaker can break the shield. “Babar’s 28. He did not. The mast, sails and rigging are new. The kitchen, homemade “They kept only the hull, actually. ”
The trip is not given, “200 000 euros by 2015. But the ex-student of Fine Arts has managed to finance, inter alia, the sale of watercolors or books based on his last journey. No choice: even with an accountant father and a schoolteacher mother, the sea, he has in the skin. Since he “discovered Christopher Columbus.” Since his childhood in Noirmoutier. Since its first wooden sardine in 10 years. “My great transoceanic was Noirmoutier-Pornic. “Only the scale has changed.
