infographic – The legendary scientific sailboat has been cruising the seas for more than fifteen years. After 22 months of examining the “invisible people” of the ocean, the schooner returned to Lorient.
An outstanding vessel, designed and operated by hobbyists since its inception, tara It is a unique exploration and adventure boat in the world. Almost a legend. The schooner, an engineer’s dream, was designed in 1989 by an explorer in love with the poles: Jean-Louis Etienne. The latter aims to follow in the footsteps of Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen, the first explorer who accomplished pole-drifting, in 1898, aboard frameworkIt is a ship specially designed to carry ice.
from Antarctica to me tara
The first man to reach the North Pole alone, will finance his own money and with the help of the insurance company UAP the first sailboat, Antarctica, which he will undertake eight years of expeditions to Antarctica, Patagonia and Spitsbergen. But due to lack of means, in 1999 he sold his boat to famous New Zealand navigator Peter Blake, a sailing legend with two American Cups to his name, Fastnet, the massive Sydney-Hobart Race and then also the Australian Tour of the legendary Whitbread…
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