At the global level the proportion fell to 2 or 3

In 40 years, the architect Jean-Marie Finot and partners group Finot and group Finot-Conq designed a little more than 200 models of yachts for racing or pleasure with some marketed in more than 1,000 copies. What constitute a fleet of some 35,000 units built primarily in France, Italy, the Japan and the United States. This success is explained by a fierce determination to innovate and many victories in competition. It is also based on the importance that has taken the French market from the mid-1950s. Social youth movements of resistance, the image of the Centre des Glénans, a technique of construction of economic vessels in plywood, illustrated by architect Jean-Jacques Herbulot, and the emergence of a middle class intellectual then allowed a democratization of yachting, renamed "sail", well before the advent of polyester.

Today, there are as many ships in France in the US for a population five times less and progress becomes more difficult. "There are already areas saturated as Quiberon Bay or the Côte d'Azur", said Jean-Marie Finot. According to his calculations, even assuming a boat every 100 metres in a coastal strip of 3 kilometres wide, could hardly have more than 5 of the French navigating, 10 at best. At the global level, the proportion fell to 2 or 3.

More live ports

In these conditions, the pleasure will be more respectful of the environment and reconnect with a "spirit of the sea" to share with the professionals. It might even she again becomes a matter "of people for which it is a vocation, who will spend 80 of their leisure time to prepare their boat to the boat", continues the architect. So it will not build many ports and it will be reserved for vessels operating. Others will be stored ashore, nearby, which will create lot of jobs with minimal investments. "Flow ports will be parking but places of life, with wider pontoons, boats occupied at least 50, it is a slow change that is inevitable," judge Jean-Marie Finot. These new browsers could reconnect with the tradition of clubs. Notice of program navigation of their members, they could ensure a place at each stop and adapted services, inter alia, to their professional activity.

New processes

The ships of the future will go mostly much faster. "Since the 1970s up to now, the boats have doubled speed, in the next forty years it will again double in speed," says Jean-Marie Finot. "The browser which is still accustomed to navigate to the maximum speed that well achieving his sailboat will have to learn how to choose the one that will appear to him adapted to its comfort or abilities", prognostic.

Equipped with best sails, this boat, which could resemble "The Seagull", is also lighter, simpler, more robust and more secure, including through carbon, who, after having won the Poles will be required on the bridges and probably in the sails. The area of navigation of this sailing boat between the low wind and the strong wind, will be more extensive than today ' today. This does not holds it to be more comfortable, more stylish, as its bridge and mast covered with solar panels, before May day sails, will produce enough energy for the needs of the edge, including the auxiliary engine.

"This is not necessarily cheaper or easier", prevents the architect, "it must be environmentally correct this boat and spends little energy in the manufacture, use and recycling." "I is included also the working conditions in the camps, the treatment of effluents, etc." universal, common craft of new processes such as infusion which avoids breathing the resin and manufacturing of pre-impregnated whereby there is more fibre that fly, will require an evolution of the tools and training in the industry but it accessible with a standardization for larger productions.

What does not Jean-Marie Finot to work on new materials, such as flax fiber and plant resins, and think about modular vessels which could replace elements, just as in a computer. Above all, it does not view that the essential condition of the future is to give the taste of navigating to the children and families lose. Its new line of drifters is there for it.