May 5, 2025
Pip Hare has the energy we all need in 2025.
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Pip Hare has the energy we all need in 2025.
VENDEE GLOBE 2024: ZODIAC FORNITORE UFFICIALE
📢 [BILLET] L'affaire fait grand bruit, et pour cause ! La navigatrice Clarisse Crémer vient d'être évincée par son sponsor Banque Populaire.
Raison invoquée ? Clarisse n'est pas en mesure de se qualifier pour le prochain Vendée Globe en raison de règles de sélection qui oblige les skippers (qui n'ont pas de bateau neuf) à participer à un certain nombre de courses qualificatives. Courses auxquelles l'intéressée n'a pas pu concourir pour cause de maternité. Les femmes, la compétition et la mer, le débat est relancé. Des thématiques que j'aborde dans mon dernier livre illustré.
Extraits :
LA NAVIGATRICE : « Skippeuse, entrepreneuse, communicante, conférencière et bientôt maman, Clarisse Crémer sait tout faire. Sa participation au dernier Vendée Globe l’a rendu médiatique avec à la clef un titre de prestige, celui de femme la plus rapide autour du monde à la voile en solitaire. Derrière ce conte de fées se cache du travail, de la stratégie, du cœur et un soupçon de chance »
LE FÉMINISME : « La voile n’est plus aujourd’hui la chasse gardée des hommes, tout comme le féminisme ne doit pas être celle des femmes, mais au contraire devenir un projet de société à débattre entre tous, avec lucidité, courage et sagesse »
« Navigatrices, portraits d'aventurières de la mer », un livre illustré paru aux Editions Vagnon. En savoir + 👉 https://urlz.fr/kcCG
Justine Mettraux is the first woman finisher of the 2024-25 Vendée Globe!
HOLY FRICK, BORIS! He overcomes his fear of heights to go up the mast and fix the sail problem, and then before he can even eat anything besides energy gel, the boat gets STRUCK BY LIGHTNING and loses several major electronic systems!
Her sponsor replaced her with no warning because she took maternity leave and she had to retrain on a new boat on short notice.
An anon accused her and her husband of cheating in the previous race and they had to get investigated.
She had to sacrifice one of her most important sails early on to save her mast.
Her foil control system broke and had to be propped up with wooden wedges in the Southern Ocean.
A huge wave shorted out all her computers and she had to cannibalize a new system from the working parts.
But as of last night, CLARISSE CRÉMER HAS COMPLETED THE 2024-25 VENDÉE GLOBE!
Before leaving, you said you were leaving to rediscover both the planet and yourself. Did you manage to find the Clarisse you sought? I've had four rather unusual years, I don't know what part of me has hung onto this Vendée Globe, even I can't explain it. I had 25 opportunities to stop everything, and it probably would have made my life a lot easier, but there was a part of me that didn't budge, and I followed that animal instinct, and each time, it was at sea that I found the answers and I said to myself "that's what I'm here for". But I am still unable to describe the "for that"! It's just that you know you have to be there! This Vendée Globe, from the first equator, I said to myself "it's okay, I've won all the battles, I'm here, and I'm making my life". I was supposed to be in this Vendée Globe, and even though these four years destroyed my self-confidence, now I did a giant 77-day therapy, and it feels so good!
“Winning is not everything. There’s a deeper purpose to the journey,” Stevenson says. “The story you tell, the lessons you learn, and the example you set for others can be more significant than a podium finish. The Vendée Globe is about personal growth, mental fortitude, and the commitment to a cause, whether it’s sustainability, adventure, or something more personal.” [x]
I know I haven’t made a 2024 version of the Vendée Globe PowerPoint yet and I’m sorry for that. I had to work a 6-day week last week and I spent a lot of this week getting over some digestive issues. When I tried to unzip the folder I had the original document saved in today on my laptop, my computer said the file was invalid. But I can absolutely try to make a version of it one way or another, since I think collectively the 2016 and 2020 versions represent the most popular original content this blog has ever produced.
(Did any of you reblog the 2020 or 2016 versions for me to reference in case I can’t get into the original file?)