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
