All Purpose Saint Mandrier partners with FYD-Adventure
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02 January 2023
All Purpose Saint Mandrier is a partner of FYD, Follow Your Dreams, a non-profit organization that offers its sailboat free of charge to researchers and scientists. An international crew of researchers and scientists will sail for 10 years around the world on a 15 meters catamaran built especially for this purpose, to explore the fauna and flora of the world's oceans.
FYD-Adventure visited the All Purpose Sail and Saddlery and made a film that presents the sail and saddlery workshops.
"Ces deux sourires nous font naviguer autour du monde"
FYD-Adventure
Véronique and Alain Bonnot, the managers of the All Purpose sailmaking workshop in Saint-Mandrier-sur-Mer, are designing and building the complete set of sails for the research catamaran.
The objective is to realize a set of sails that will sail for 10 years around the world.
- Design phase of the sails on computer.
- Manufacturing phase: assembly and mounting of the fabrics and membranes cut to shape, realization of the reinforcements and finishes.
- Upholstery: realization of the lasybag and the canopy..
"Nous remercions la famille Bonnot pour son soutien exceptionnel et affectueux !
Les voiles sont le moteur de notre bateau - et l'élément très important."
L'équipe FYD
The All Purpose Saint Mandrier team is happy and proud to participate in this adventure!
