Yvan Bourgnon - The ATLANTIS Challenge

Yvan Bourgnon – The ATLANTIS Challenge

15 February 2016 - News

27 stops and 2 important crossings – 50000 KMS around the planet

ATLANTIS TÉLÉVISION AND YVAN BOURGNON, A LONG TERM ENGAGEMENT.

Atlantis supports the marine exploits of Yvan Bourgnon since over 2 years. It’s an obvious sponsoring for the Group, between fundamental values, audacity, bravery, passion and the search of performance.

Atlantis and Yvan Bourgnon, one of the most authentic navigators and of the most impressive in the sailing competition, have already shared three great human adventures, technically different one from another, but all rewarding.

After having tried twice with talent but not enough wind, a first performance in 2013, the Corse tour record, Atlantis and Yvan launched themselves into competition by being on the starting line of every preparatory competitions for the World Championship, in the Nacra F20 Carbon category.

Today, it’s still on the same little sport catamaran without leaving room or electronic instrument that we share this amazing human adventure. An impossible challenge that we named “a man on the sea”

On a 50000km course, he sailed only with his sextant, without any shelter to protect himself.

After a stop in Darwin, Australia, knowing he only had the Indian Ocean to cross left, to end 80% of his tour, his adventure stopped on August 1st in Sri Lanka, a few hundred meters from the Galle harbor.

This shipwreck marked the end of an episode, but not the end of the race. Yvan Bourgnon sailed the Route du Rhum, won the Jacques-Vabre and many other races at sea. It was impossible for him to admit his defeat so close to the end.

For the last episode of this fabulous world tour, he says he is really prepared and armed with a prepared boat, lighter and mightier to win the challenge.

We will be by his side all along those next 10 000 km of the race, and at the finish, of course, to applause him.

Yvan Bourgnon is the 2015 sailor for us

Yvan Bourgnon and Joris Cocaud training before the attempt of the around Corsica Island record on the Nacra F20 Carbon “Atlantis Television”, Porticcio, Corsica, France.

A HUGE CHALLENGE

Ouistreham Riva Bella, En avant toute, June, le Port de Caen, Le Club des Entreprises de Ouistreham Riva-Bella et Foward Sailing are partners to his challenge for the first world tour on a sporting sailing boat unlivable.
This unique challenge is taken solely by Yvan Bourgnon offers a 50 000 km course including 27 stops.

The course was marked by two great crossings: the Atlantic Ocean, from Canary Islands to Guadeloupe (2 weeks), and the Pacific Ocean, from Galapagos Islands to Marquises Islands (3 weeks).

After a shipwreck south of Sri Lanka resulting of a technical problem, Yvan will sail again in March to end this challenge and come back to the Normand coasts during June.

In short, this is an adventure never yet realized on such a little boat. Moreover, the sailor wanted to come back to the simple values of sailing, solely with a sextant (without GPS). The food will be lyophilized; a water maker will fabricate the water.

June 23rd 2015: the finish line!

On June 24th, 2015 at 11:30am, Yvan Bourgnon ends his trop in Ouistreham. The sailor, acclaimed by the public who waited on the docks, came back after 20 months of sailing. Surrounded by numerous boats that came to meet him, he does an honorary tour well deserved, for him who went against all odds to achieve his goal. At 1pm, he was entering the harbor, welcomed by Romain Bail, the mayor of Ouistreham Riva-Bella, and then his two kids went aboard his ship to meet him..

it’s with raised arms that this victory marked this historic day for Yvan Bourgnon. A man in the sea, facing loneliness, on a 50 000 km course around the globe, sailing only with the help of his sextant, on a nutshell without any shelter to shield the oceans’ risks…
Our hero succeeded in finishing an amazing challenge, going through obstacles that could appear insurmountable.

Photos D. Tisserand

PRESS IS TALKING ABOUT IT

RTL.fr on 23/06/2015 by FREDERIC VEILLE

REPORT – Gone since October 2013, the Swiss skipper finished on Tuesday, June 23rd in Ouistreham his World Tour on a sailing catamaran unlivable

it’s with raised arms and a big smile on his slips that Yvan Bourgnon crossed the finish line on Tuesday, June 23rd, a little before 11am, in front of Ouistreham in Calvados.
Tired but happy, the skipper and his “Louloutte”, name of his boat, have then gone through the canal and locks of Orne to be welcomed by a crowd, but also by his mother Suzanne and his close ones.

“I’m so afraid of it being finished that I already planned to leave three weeks on this boat with my kids
“Yvan Bourgnon”

I’m happy to be back, anyway I had to put a foot on earth, to see my close ones, and to share this moment with every nature lovers, he said. But I’m so afraid of it being finished that I already planned to leave three weeks on this boat with my kids this summer. But what’s going to miss the most is meditation, silence, privileged moments we don’t have on coast”.
A true human and sportive exploit.

Gone on October 5th, 2013 from Les Sables d’Olonne, the Swiss sailor of 43 ended a real human and sportive exploit, realizing a tour around the world, on his sailboat of 6,30m long and 4m wide, without cabin.

And it’s only with a sextant, some paper maps and a calculator that he traveled on the globe’s seas, a course with some traps, like in August 2014 in Sri Lanka where, when asleep, his boat was wrecked against some rocks.
Mishaps and adventures

In this mishap, Yvan Brugnon was ejected of this boat but got out miraculously unscathed, which wasn’t the state of “Louloutte” totally destroyed. Back in France a few weeks later, searching for funds to help him get back on tracks, Yvan Bourgnon managed to get back to Sri Lanka and rebuild his boat to start again on March 22nd.

“At the beginning of my course, everybody thought I was crazy!”

After came some other mishaps, like pirates around Djibouti on April, his lack of drinkable water, and his difficulties to cross the red sea. “At the beginning of my course, everybody thought I was crazy, but I’ve always wanted to show to the public that we can realize some human scale challenges without spending incredible amounts of money.” During his course, Yvan Bourgnon will have traveled the equivalent of more than 50 000km.

Born in La Chaux de Fonds, in Switzerland, Yvan Bourgnon is the cadet brother of Laurent Bourgnon, who won on “Primagaz” the transatlantic Jacques Vabre in 1997. Experimented sailor, and winner of many records, Yvan Bourgnon had already realized a world tour on a sailboat when he was 8 with his parents, for a 4 years travel.

LeParisien.fr le 23/06/2015 par AFP/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

SAILING : Yvan Bourgnon finished his world tour in Ouistreham

He was the only one to believe in the adventure until the end. The Swiss sailor, Yvan Bourgnon, 43, ended Tuesday his sailing world tour on a sport catamaran without cabin, sailing old school (without GPS but a sextant and simple maps) and alone. He had left the Sables d’Olonne’s harbor in October 2013 with a friend before this one gave up at the first of the twenty stops planned.

Coming from Port-Saïd in Egypt, he crossed the Mediterranean Sea during spring, and then came up the Atlantic from the strait of Gibraltar. “I’m really happy to be back, see my family and share this moment with every nature lover and the ouistrehameses”.
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His welcome comity composed by a few hundred people, gave him the salutation he deserved to this adventurer who went to the end of his 55 000 km and 220 days of course who brought him to the most dangerous seas and oceans of the globe. At the yell of “Yvan, Yvan”, 150 pupils of Ouistreham with the mayor, opened their arms to the adventurer

directmatin.fr le 23/06/2015 par AFP/CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

Sailing : Yvan Bourgnon won his bet

Twenty months after his departure, Yvan Bourgnon arrived on Tuesday in Ouistreham and finished his course of over 55 000 km on the globe’s seas; and all of this on an unlivable sailboat.

After three oceans, thirteen seas, twenty stops, seven storms, a wreck and two capsizes, Yvan Bourgnon ended his world tour on Tuesday, at 1pm. Gone from the Sables d’Olonne in October 2013, the Swiss sailor managed a challenge on his sport catamaran without cabin, alone and sailing old school.

at the rhythm of a pipe, Bourgnon went in the Normand harbor before spraying the crowd and journalists on site with champagne. It took him over 20 months and thirty stops to win his challenge.

Specialist in extreme raids, he thought he wouldn’t finish his world tour when his ship wrecked in August 2014 in Sri Lanka, after traveling almost 80% of the course. But after 2000 hours of work in three different construction sites, financed by a participative campaign, he was able to repair the damages and to face the last 10 000 km of his course.

YVAN BOURGNON, A PASSIONATE SKIPPER

Yvan Bourgnon is a Swiss skipper, born on July 6th, 1971 at La Chaux-de-Fonds. He is the brother of Laurent Bourgnon, who he won the Transat with in double Jacques Vabre 1997.
At 8, he goes on a world trip with his parents that will last short of 4 years. When he is 13, his family settles in Saint-Brevin-Les-Pins, in Loire-Atlantique.
He is known in 1995, when he won the three races: Mini-Fastnet-Transgascogne, Mini Transat, and a performance never redone since. In 1997, on Primagaz, he won with his brother Laurent the Transat Jacques Vabre.

A few years ago, Yvan Bourgnon made the sport catamaran his favorite boat. Judging this boat offers many possibilities of navigation and particularly to realize some human sized challenges, the navigator never stops to push the limits

In September 2010, he beats his first record: crossing the Mediterranean sea with Jérémie Lagarrigue, joining Marseille to Carthage (Tunisia) in 53h52’. In January 2012, along with his partner Sebastion Roubinet, he does the tour of Cape Horn in a Nacra F20 of 6 meters long. In 60 hours and 450 intense miles with 45 knots of wind and 7 meters waves, he achieves his unbelievable challenge.

Three months later, in the LinXéa Challenge, he signs the absolute records of the 24 hours sailing alone, traveling 344,5 miles in Brazil.

A RISKY CHALLENGE

On October 5th of 2013, he departs from Sables d’Olonne along with Vincent Beauvarlet to accomplish a world tour “old school” on a sport catamaran of 6,30 meters, unlivable.
The two navigators don’t have assistance, don’t receive any weather information, and don’t have a GPS. They only have a sextant, a satellite telephone and some traditional maps. At Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Canary Islands), Vincent Beauvarlet gives up.
On November 20th, Yvan Bourgnon keeps up alone. He arrives at Marin, in Martinique on December 10th. He leaves on February 3rd 2014 and gets co Colon in Panama the 9th.
After crossing the locks, he leaves the Peals archipelago on February 23rd and arrives in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, on the Island of San Cristobal (Galapagos) on March 2nd. He leaves on the 7th for his longest trip to the Marquees Islands. He arrives in Nuku Hiva on March 27th.

After a stop in Tuamotu, in Tahiti, in Raiatea, in Bora-Bora and in Samoa, he arrives in Viti Levu (the biggest island in Fiji) on May 17th. He stops again on the islands of Vanuatu and in Darwin, in Australia. He arrives in Bali on July 1st.

He leaves Bali on July 12th for the Maldives. The conditions at sea have worsen, he changes course to Galle, in Sri Lanka. On August 1st, approaching the harbor, he wrecks the boat. He is unscathed, but his boat is destroyed.

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