Moored in the Louise basin, the sailboat The Golden Fleece does not go unnoticed with its bright red steel shell, its masts that overlook the marina and its junk sail. Vikie Pedneault and Pierre Hurteau Corbin bought it last October to make it a popular scientific tool.
Through this project in partnership with the Port of Quebec, the couple must first restore the sailboat which has browsed very little in recent years. It’s really a rustic sailboat
of the admission of Vikie Pedneault, biologist and content creator on social networks.
Through the creation of content on social networks, Vikie Pedneault and Pierre Hurteau Corbin wish to discover “treasures” of the St. Lawrence.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Eugénie Émond
But he has been in his sights for a few years. I came across it by chance in 2013 because I worked in Tadoussac at the marine mammal interpretation center
tells the one who is also behind the Lévisium Sciences Festival, which takes place in June, in Lévis.
The golden fleece was in Tadoussac bay, anchored. […] I saw her every day and I dreamed a little of having my own sailboat.
The masts are 13 m high. The rear mast was shaped by a British Columbia pine while the front mast was sculpted in a tree trunk in the Estrie where the person who built the ship lived in the late 1980s.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Eugénie Émond
Love need
A few years later, the Golden Fleece with its sails Dragon wings
is for sale on Marketplace. The couple do not hesitate and buy the sailboat, of the junk type, in October 2024.
As written in the announcement, the boat has Love need
. Pierre Hurteau Corbin, also a mechanic officer of the ship, recognizes that taking out the sailboat from the bay of Port-au-Persil in Saint-Siméon was not an easy task.
The sailboat, a junk type, moored in the bay of Port-au-Persil, in Saint-Siméon, was bought by Vikie Pedneault and Pierre Hurteau Corbin.
Photo: screenshot
When we recovered it, it was in pitiful condition
he said. The couple had to start the restorations directly in Saint-Siméon, taking a winding path with trailer and generator.
It was difficult what there was to do there, there were repairs to do on the shell before leaving. We arranged so that the boat does not [soit] Not damaged by water for the season.
Finally, the sailboat was able to leave Charlevoix to first join Lévis and then the Louise basin, where it will remain moored the time to finalize the renovations.
The sailboat will also be open to the public from 25 to 27 July as well as the following weekend. Come and chat with us, this is the purpose of the exercise. […] We are going to show you a little and we will show you the work we are working this summer
invited Vikie Pedneault, in an interview on the program First hour.
The Golden Fleece threw anchor in the Louise basin, in Quebec, for the rest of summer.
Photo: Radio-Canada / Eugénie Émond
Discover the secrets of the river
The idea of acquiring the golden fleece is also – and above all – to make the bridge between science, the river and the population
specifies the biologist.
The couple therefore wishes to make popularization scientific aboard the sailboat of around fifty feet by approaching their biodiversity, such as the presence of the shark and the blue whale, or even navigation techniques and maritime transport. It is to allow people to understand that every day, they interact with the river, no matter where it is.
According to Eugénie Émond interviews
