SBlack sail sags on its white shell, covered with bird droppings. At the beginning of 2016, at the port of Honolulu (Hawaii), the hydroptère, a sailboat with the silhouette of Goéland, is grip under the Pacific sun. From land, an American lawyer in a tie costume notes his decline. He claims $ 11,000 in payment arrears from Alain Thébault, the skipper who abandoned him there. But Thébault has already gone.
Those who have had the chance to climb on this revolutionary boat speak of a unique feeling. The impression of flying. More than 10 million euros have been injected there. Twelve years after its launch in 1994, the hydroptère fails to be crushed. Last step of a gleaming start.
Alain Thébault, 62, has for him an undeniable talent of Navigateu …