Bourgnon’s crash on the coast of Sri Lanka. Swiss man falls and tries to get back up
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Do you see this pile of fiberglass? It is none other than the 6.20 m uninhabitable catamaran with which Swiss Yvan Bourgnon had launched himself on October 5, 2013, on a solo round-the-world voyage from Les Sables d’Olonne (Brittany). Unfortunately, just a few miles from the conclusion of her voyage, the catamaran came to a bad end in Sri Lanka in early August.
“By the time I was about to reach the coast,” Yvan recounts, “the wind had died down and I thought I would put on autopilot to rest for a while, pointing the bow offshore. I woke up when I was literally ripped off the ship by the waves and found myself in the water, in a place full of outcropping rocks. I am alive by a miracle.”
Bourgnon’s adventure does not end here: he plans to continue aboard another catamaran as soon as he finds the necessary funds. Do you want to help him? Just click HERE
HERE YOU WILL FIND ALL ABOUT YVAN BOURGNON AND HIS JOURNEY
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