Elegance, talent and, above all, energy to spare. At 64, Laurent Camprubi, a native of Marseilles but also of just about every corner of the globe, has plenty to show for his career. It's a professional career, as he designs and manufactures women's fashion shoes in Portugal. But he's also a top-level sportsman: a motorbike, rowing, car and marathon champion, and even an ultratrailer. With a passion for surpassing himself. It's a credo that the former member of the CNTL in Marseille applies to sailing, winning a bit of everything in the IRC: Mediterranean champion in crewed configuration (IRC4 in 2010, IRC1 in 2013), then in double-handed (2013 and 2014). Even solo. "I think I'm the only person to have won the Giraglia in all classes and single-handed".The man who, around the year 2000, wants to go further, savours.  "I had a bit more free time with work. I'd covered quite a lot of ground on the water. I wanted to learn more. So I turned to the best there is. And the best of all is the Grande-Motte ocean racing training centre. It was set up by a certain Kito de Pavant (who is definitely everywhere...). From the Figaro, of course. With more successful experiences, in the SoloMed and the Generali. But also Class40. And it's with Jean-Pierre Balmes, another eminent member of the CEM, that he's off to breathe the Atlantic spray, with the Transat Jacques-Vabre 2021. In 2022, he will complete the construction of his own Class40, FRA179, named Jeanne. ("the name of one of my daughters, the other boat is called Alizée, of course...) with an encouraging start. But in August 2022, in the middle of qualifying for the solo transatlantic race off La Coruña, the keel of his boat came loose and Laurent Camprubi spent eighteen hours in survival mode, in the saloon of his boat, upside down, in freezing water mixed with diesel up to his neck. He survived thanks to the intervention of the Corunna fire brigade, his seamanship and his preparation for endurance sports. The boat was also recovered. And, as a good, stubborn Marseillais, Laurent Camprubi found the resources to take the start of this sacred Rhum. Which he won't finish. "  I wasn't ready enough and the boat wasn't reliable enough. But it wasn't a bitter abandonment. Just when a little voice tells you not to insist.. But he knows how to insist. And the man who now has a licence with the SNGRPC (Société nautique Grau-du-Roi-Port-Camargue) is celebrating his return to the Mediterranean with victory in the Massilia Offshore Corsica Race 2023, alongside... Kito de Pavant. That just goes to show how motivated the guy is on the MED MAX Occitanie-Saïdia Resorts, which he is racing under the banner of "Guérir en mer" (Heal at sea), in tribute to all the care workers.  "Let me tell you something, he says. I kind of wanted to hang it up. Class40 is physical. But when Kito told me that he was organising this ocean race, his ocean race, for all the time we'd been waiting for it, I put off retiring".  Another fine tribute from the man who will be accompanied by Samuel Buissart. "A young lad of two metres! It's good to have some youth on these boats. A fellow who has made his mark on 'Glaces Romane' since, with Kito de Pavant as skipper, he placed 'Jeanne' on the podium of the Paprec 600 Saint-Tropez 2024. This bodes well for the MEDMAX Occitanie-Saïdia Resorts.