The Frenchman Jean-Jacques Savin has begun its Atlantic crossing. The 71-Year-old wants to drive from Europe with a ton of in the Caribbean.
Munich – A 71-year-old Frenchman has started on Wednesday in a kind of ton of a voyage across the Atlantic. Jean-Jacques Savin stabbed on the Spanish Canary island of El Hierro in the lake, as he told the AFP news Agency by telephone. “The weather is great,” he said. “I have a swell of a Meter, and get two to three miles an hour.” The former paratrooper had prepared for months on the journey.
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In three months, he wants to arrive in the Caribbean, its resin coated plywood-ton to get him only with the help of the current and the Wind to your destination. Where exactly he will go to the country, don’t know Savin: “Maybe Barbados, but I would love a French island like Martinique or Guadeloupe, it would be easier for the papers, to the ton.”
Three months to six square metres – also for research purposes
Savin needs to be set up in the coming months on a good six square meters, of which The orange ton is three meters long and 2,10 meters wide. Inside, a sleeping area, a Seating area, a kitchen corner, a card table and some storage space. Through a porthole in the bottom of the adventurers can observe the fish.
+ Jean-Jacques Savin in the Interior of his “Atlantic-ton”.©AFP / GEORGES GOBET
A peak in a few weeks: For his 72. Birthday on the 14. January has taken Savin liver pâté and wine on Board. During the long Crossing, Savin will also serve the science: The Frenchman takes you for a research Institute, a buoy for measuring currents and self-test object is to be in a study about loneliness in a small space.
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