Destination Guadeloupe 2018

ROUTE DU RHUM destination guadeloupe 2018 Enter the adventure with 4myplanet & Alexia ! www.alexiasailingteam.com www.marineland.fr ©4myplanet EDITORIAL That's it! This year is the big adventure. The realization of my dream of a little girl. What luck! In reality, it's not luck but a lot of hard work to get to the starting line of this legendary race. The Route du Rhum - Desti- nation Guadeloupe 2018. I would like you all to embark with me in this crazy sea adventure. But as the rules of a solo race forbid it (a little), I created especially for you this webmag. To make you mouth water (salty one), to make you want to follow me, to share my enthusiasm. Some will explore it with their teacher, others with their parents or, just at home alone if you feel like it... I wanted to tell you a little about my job as a skipper and what happens on board. Also, what I see around me. And make you want, one day, to realize your own dreams. Before boarding, one last very important thing, but you already know it I'm sure. The oceans are fragile, even if they are the source of life for all the inhabitants of the Blue Planet. In these few pages, I explain why you must love and preserve them. You too, at your level and like me, can help protect your favorite play- ground whether at sea or on land. Oh yes, I was going to forget! On the last page of this magazine, you will meet Defibrilathor. Say “Hello!” to it from me. Happy reading to you, the youth of today and my future heroes! Have fun and send me your drawings and questions to [email protected] ;-) Alexia Barrier SOMMAIRE 4myplanet, the project, the missions Biography of Alexia The Route du Rhum History and race The race The different boats of the race An Imoca with a magnifying glass Life at sea, live in autonomy what is it? Megafauna The riches of Oceans Marine Pollution Do you know Defibrilathor 112? 4myplanet, the project, the missions We all keep in us the memory of the ocean ... And stingy eyes. Hi! You know that the life has appeared in the oceans, it was ... some time ago1. Fed by the water running off the ground, the primordial ocean was less concentrated in salt than it is today. You have kept in your body an indelible memory of your oceanic origin: salt in your blood, your cells, your tears. That's why the sea stings your eyes: it has become, today, a little more concentrated in salt2. Thus, far and so close descendants of the sea, we are all little bits of ocean. We are all little bits of ocean! Wherever we live, whatever we eat, we depend directly on it. Imagine. Covering 71% of the earth's surface, the oceans generate most of our oxygen and regulate our climate. If they deteriorate or break down, it is scary. Only 230,000 marine species have been documented to date. And we estimate that 2 million species living in water are still unknown to us. In short, we know almost nothing about this immense, infinite world. Having become capable of damaging it (warming, pollution, acidification, overfishing, etc.), the human beings are more than ever responsible for the state of the seas and oceans. Mankind in general and every individual in particular must take care of it today. THE GREATEST CARE. That's why I founded ... 4myplanet. 4myplanet3, for the preservation and knowledge of the oceans. I founded the 4myplanet association in 2009 to make people want to love and protect the oceans. The four pillars of 4myplanet are Sport, Education, Science and Technology. Thus, in 2010, was launched the first boat able to race the Vendée Globe equipped with a scientific laboratory. During five months of solo sailing, the boat’s thermosalinograph4 retrieved millions of data. They have fed scientific laboratory research and have helped to understand our ocean. Meanwhile, the adventures of and samples taken by 4myplanet Tour, have been followed by more than a thousand children on 3 continents. 1 Less than a billion years after the formation of the Earth, exactly 3.8 billion years ago, appeared in the primordial ocean the very first unicellular living beings, the prokaryotes (which still exist!). 2 30 grams per liter on average for the ocean, 9 g / l for our tears. 3 The “4” of 4myplanet is a word game in English: for ("for") and 4 ("four") are pronounced almost the same. This "4" also refers to the four pillars of the association. 4 An instrument that takes data on salinity and surface temperature of water Biography of Alexia dreams.» after my ill go I w « Hello, I am Alexia. I am 38 years old and I was born at the edge of the Mediterranean which is a bit like my second mother.I floated and sailed in its blue waters since the age of 3, thanks to my parents who had a small 6 meters sailing boat. One beautiful day of my 12 years anni- versary that I will never forget, I saw on TV an oceanic sailing race. I had a flash. I suddenly had a clear awareness of what I wanted to do with my life: sail racing around the world. Since then, I have worked happily and tirelessly to achieve this dream of a little girl. Sailing instructor at 15, I worked in the yachting industry as a co-skipper or a sailor; not to mention conti- nuing my studies in sports management at the UFR-STAPS in Nice. Quickly, I became a professional navigator. After racing at the world level in Match Racing5, I started solo offshore racing. In all, I have already traveled more than 220,000 miles6 around the world, including fourteen transatlantic races including four solo races. My most important racing boats were in the Mini 6.50 (the smallest offshore racing l tm boat), the Figaro 2 (the most demanding single-handed series 4.h 14 r- in the world), the 60-foot (18 meters it starts to be a big toy) ie rr a b in monohull and multihull races. - ia x le a / r f In 2009, I was comfortable enough on my boat to "open / m o c my eyes" to the world around me. So, I created 4mypla- . m a e net and, in the process, I became the first woman to t g in il a attempt a solitary world tour for the benefit of s ia x science. My plan was that combining sailing and le .a commitment to the planet would benefit both. w w w / And it worked. I sensitized thousands of "little :/ s p t t beings" among the most important for the h : s t future of the World, you, children, my n e m heroes. And to crown the adventure, I e v ie h had great results like the podium on c a f o the Transat AG2R 2014! t is l y M 5 Format of races around buoys like the America's Cup. 6 Sailors count their distances in nautical miles. 1 nautical mile = 1,852 km. Alexia sailed 354,000 kilometers, almost 9 times around the Earth (40,075 km). In the same way, the speed of a boat is not measured in km / h but in knots. 1 knot = 1 mile / hour = 1.852 km / h. 4myplanet, Alexia's sailboat reaches 11 knots when it rises to the wind and can exceed 20 knots when it is in the open sea. The origin of the phrase "spin 11 knots" comes from the days of the wooden navy when a rope with knots was allowed to slip between the fingers overboard to estimate the speed of the ship. The Route du Rhum, history and races History of a mythical race: 40 years of drinks, magic and freedom. Forty years ago, the Route du Rhum was born. The advertiser and impresario Michel Etevenon did not know much about sailing, but he knew how to make the show and do the innovation. While in 1976 the Briti- sh limited the maximum size of the boats for "their" transatlantic races to 17 meters, he imagines in response a transatlantic race without limit. The main motto would be: open to all, pro and amateur, mono and multi- hulls, etc. And the only rule: no motor. This "race of freedom" would connect the Breton city of Saint-Malo to the Guadeloupe city of Pointe-à-Pitre. Just born, the race already becomes a legend. The first edition, which starts in November 1978, is marked by its dramatic intensity. Not only did Mike Birch of Canada win with 98 seconds advantage after 23 days at sea on his tiny trimaran against a large monohull, but it is also during this first edition that the famous sailor Alain Colas disappears at sea on Manureva. The tragedy will inspire Serge Gainsbourg to write a song which live now in our memory. Just born, the race is already a legend. And all subsequent editions will have their share of great deeds and magic. Dante storms that decimate the fleet as in 1986 or 2002. First victory of a woman across all categories in 1990 with Florence Arthaud "the fiancée of the Atlantic". Double victory of the Swiss Laurent Bourgnon in '94 and '98. Gigantism of the trimarans of more than 30 meters in 2010. An incredibly popular success with more than 2 million and a half spectators in 2014 ..

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