June 21, 2020 (14th day) "Quickly arrived, already gone. We leave the port of Stavanger where we made a short stopover under a grey sky. Despite the shortness of our stopover, the first one since we left Douarnenez on June 8th, Norway already inspires us: people are welcoming and the landscapes are very picturesque. We [...]
June 18, 2020, Port of Douarnenez, France In order to bring you a little more aboard with us, the Fondation Pacifique offers you to discover in more detail the issues and behind-the-scenes of the current expeditions with these short video capsules. "It's not easy to prepare a navigation of several weeks without stopovers... This first [...]
Quite a symbol! It was on Monday, 8 June 2020, known as World Oceans Day, that the Swiss sailing ship Mauritius cast off, leaving Brittany towards the Arctic Ocean on a new expedition of the Fondation Pacifique. During five years and in the same spirit as sailing around the world in Magellan's wake, the [...]
The book is 240-page big but this is definitely not its only merit. Released at the end of October 2019 by Slatkine editions in Geneva, it traces in text, map and illustrations 4 and a half years of adventures around the world aboard Fleur de Passion as part of The Ocean Mapping Expedition. Made [...]
Since its opening on Thursday, September 5, 2019 at the General Archives of the Indies of Seville, on the eve of the official arrival of the sailing ship Fleur de Passion after The Ocean Mapping Expedition, and on October 29, the exhibition Nuestra Isla de las especias attracted more than 50'000 visitors, which suggests a [...]
Fleur de Passion completed her 4 and a half year world tour in the wake of the famous navigator in the presence of a large and colorful crowd, both Spanish and Geneva, Friday, September 6, 2019 late morning in Seville. On the Muelle de las Delicias, at the invitation of the Swiss embassy in [...]
What a long way! In July 2009, from Marseille, the Fondation Pacifique launched its first expeditions aboard Fleur de Passion. In the Old Port of Marseille, the 33-meter sailboat received its new sail set and was inaugurated in the presence of Albert Falco, former expedition leader of Cousteau's Calypso vessel. After six and a [...]
In early June 2019, the expedition received the official approval of the Spanish Government Commission in charge of the events, to celebrate the first round-the-world voyage. The expedition is now part of the programme of festivities being held to mark the 500th anniversary of the return of Magellan’s expedition. The event will be celebrated [...]
In the spring of 2019, the Fondation Pacifique received wide coverage from several Swiss and international media organs. In its May 21 issue, The Journal des Bains des Paquis, a free bi-annual newspaper published by one of Geneva’s major social institutions, continued with its chronicling of The Ocean Expedition, which the newspaper has been [...]
On 16 May 2019, the Fondation Pacifique was invited by the Haute École de Gestion (HEG) of Geneva to hold a presentation of its activities (and The Ocean Mapping Expedition in particular) within the framework of the Sustainable Development Week organized by the HEG. In addition to Samuel Gardaz, vice-president of the foundation, two [...]
