A link between different cultures, different traditions, different generations.

The credo that Kito de Pavant has inscribed on the bow of the MED MAX I Occitanie - Saïdia Resorts, an offshore sailing race between two shores of the Mediterranean, was perfectly illustrated yesterday with the departure out to sea of the dozen or so lateen sailboats that were waiting patiently in the shade of the technology-laden Ocean Fifty, impatient to cast off from the quays of Port-Camargue.

After the prologue for the Class40s on Tuesday and that for the huge trimarans the day before, it was the turn of these venerable 'old ladies' to stretch their sails. It was a short, hard tack to an anchorage off Grau-du-Roi, bringing together Bir Hakeim, a Catalan barque built in 1958, Mireille, Mourre de Porc, from the Grau-du-Roi Siloe association, Albane, a 1946 barquette and Albatros, from the Voile Latine du Bassin de Thau association, "Chrisylvanat", from 1957, not forgetting the Rodolphe-Fauquier, from 1961, the oldest lifeboat in the whole of the Mediterranean, or Mamaki, a Tramani boat from Marine et Tradition Palavas, as well as Bise-Aiguë, Stéphane and Petite Josette.
All finished off with a delicious brasucade, accompanied by some fine charcuterie and a little banyuls brought by our Catalan friends. Long live tradition!