The adventurer, suffering from a serious illness, in love with freedom and sobriety, has been living aboard a small boat for a dozen years. It promotes the reconstructive virtues of life in a crew.
How to promote an inclusive approach and assume its development? A dossier produced in partnership with Afdas on the occasion of its Economic Inclusion Forum in Sport, Tourism and Entertainmenton March 21 in Paris.
Capucine Trochet, navigator, 41 years old, is currently near Lorient. She sails aboard the boat Country Countries (small jute sailboat) for a dozen years (1). She has a connective tissue disease, “difficult on a daily basis”, manifested by fatigue and chronic pain. She underwent several operations.
“Before, it was marginal to talk about sobriety, the philosophy of life that I practice. We are in the same process with Corentin [de Chatelperron, ingénieur, aventurier, fondateur et président de l’association Gold of Bengal, ndlr] which is to keep it simple. Which doesn’t mean I’m anti-technology. So, I’m delighted to have a distress beacon… What I think is that we disperse ourselves with accessories that cut us off from our senses. The purpose of trade is to create needs. It’s not about total minimalism but about being happy with not much. This approach was marginal a few years ago, but today more and more people are convinced of it. I want to be optimistic. People are more attentive and I want to believe that things are changing. Want to believe that there are small tree shoots everywhere, even if we still cut down a lot of forests…
“For me, integration through sport is universal, because it can be shared by everyone. There are 10,000 ways to be affected, whether you are disabled, a woman or marginalized in any way… Sport is good for your head, and so does the rest. . If the head is better, we are more willing to live and reach out to others and to ourselves.
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“Sport gives a very personal access to self-confidence. We take small steps of progression, we learn to trust each other. This is the fundamental basis of the concept of insertion.
“There is nothing better than sport to feel capable. There is nothing more human than to be in doubt. In the race, offshore, I didn’t really know what to do. When starting from scratch, the room for improvement can only be vast. The sea has tremendous power. When you’re at sea, you don’t run away from things. There are relevant answers to our existential questions. There is fatigue, effort, we don’t cheat, we can’t pretend and we reveal ourselves.
“A lot of young people who had problems got on board to live together. They were having a crazy experience. Sick children went to sea and took a liking to it. It’s crazy how many reconstruction-related projects happen on boats. Being part of a crew also means discovering that we all have our place on board. We all rely on each other. For those who have known a concern for justice, addiction, being on board means just being part of a crew. We are all together and this has to happen.”
(1) Adventure she told in a book, Tara Tari. My wings, my freedom ed. Arthaud, 336 pages, €30.