Their previous adventure on a deserted island, Des usions islands could have ended badly, from lack of food, extreme fatigue, chikungunya and infected wounds ... That did not stop to want to repeat. But elsewhere and otherwise. This time, the photographer Ronan Gladu, diy room decor and the two surfers Aurélien Jacob and Ewen Le Goff boarded Gwalaz an eco-designed catamaran prototype. Direction diy room decor the Pacific. diy room decor
The appointment diy room decor is made, our meeting with them will be held in Paris during one of their project presentation evening. We arrived, no trace of the three Britons. diy room decor Nobody knows where they are. We wait a few minutes, here they appear dropper, arriving from Britain, which Southwest. They seem a bit lost, overwhelmed by the world presses around them. A laugh later, the ice is broken. Luckily, we look forward to hearing what they have to tell. No need to cook them, they seem happy to share their adventures with us. With humor and good mood, they launch into the story of their tribulations, from one subject diy room decor to another, interrupting himself cheerfully.
Realize their dream of surfing waves unexplored, but also give an ecological dimension to their project. This is the goal that gave themselves. "We wanted to build a trimaran replacing the possible harmful materials to humans and the environment diy room decor through organic materials," they explain. The destination? The most remote and unexplored region of the globe. Equipped with an Internet browser and Google Earth, here are looking for one of the last eldorados surfer in search of perfect waves. This will be the Solomon Islands, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
"We knew that the Pacific swell came up there and it was therefore potentially waves. At the same time, it is a place where you really find very little information, even in English, which is rare on the planet. It looked very responded envy. "Upon inquiry, these islands actually not on the classics waterways, and the boat is the only way to travel from one to the other.
Especially as the timing diy room decor of the trip is that of cyclones. "The wave season is the hurricane season, so people do not feel like venturing into sailing diy room decor in those waters. Moreover, at the end of the trip, we found ourselves in cyclone ends, we broke a part of the boat ... "Yet depopulated spots should attract the surfer paradise ..." It's a place where almost nobody goes, not even the Australians, who are yet right next door. "After ten years of conflict, diy room decor one can understand them. "For them, the Solomon Islands, it is war, and we imagine that the Australian surfer rather want to go to Bali to drink beer and surf in a place where there are more with malaria."
But we do not share the other side of the world into the wind and head full of dreams. If usions Some islands diy room decor was a "challenge how we do a little warriors" Lost in the swell was created after careful preparation. "The main idea behind was to go to the boat show [November 2012], to write a check to pay for the boat we wanted and get away with it in stride. It did not happen that way, "said diy room decor Ronan, immediately triggering laughter from his companions.
Not surprisingly, diy room decor finding funding is labor. You have to convince diy room decor potential sponsors. "We must say that we still sent a boat with no delivery address in a country where there had never been ..."
If the idea was well received, the difficult economic environment, especially in the middle diy room decor of surfing, has given cautious many interlocutors. "There are ten years, we would only have to snap your fingers, we would have the budget, but today ..." The nature of their project allows them to canvass a wide range of partners - boating, surfing, environment. But 300 to 400 contacts, half of the responses are clear: "This is the crisis ..." If they do not obtain hard cash, proposals for material aid have not failed. "That's why we have a lot of sponsors in the credits."
The project was born after two and a half years of work, with the support of the Brittany region, which funds part of the project; Roland Jourdain, the race browser off at the head of the Kairos Society; Tricat for the design of the vessel; and other sponsors as Oxbow, who three days before their departure, diy room decor allowing them to pay airfare. A crowdfunding diy room decor campaign was launched to cover the remaining costs, winning a resounding diy room decor success. "There are plenty of people who have a little idea of dream and surf trip.
