The alternation hoists the sails with
Captain Alternance
, the boat of the Walt association (for We Are Alternants).
Since its launch in 2018, this structure, which has more than 1,000 partner schools and CFAs (including the Compagnons du Devoir, the IGS group, Talis Education Group, etc.), has already supported more than 10,000 young people. And in particular Kéni Piperol, elected best athlete of the year 2017 by the regional Olympic committee of Guadeloupe, which is oriented towards the nautical professions.
In 2020, Kéni Piperol joined Lalou Multi, a company run by the 2017 winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre, Jean-Louis Roucayrol, which employs around twenty people in boat building and is committed to a transmission process with young people .
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Along with three other apprentices, the young 25-year-old skipper participated in the construction of the
Captain Alternance
boat , the latest generation of the scow-type Class40s, designed with 98% recyclable materials.
On Friday, he will start the 1000 Milles des Sables race, a solo qualifying event for the Route du rhum.
“Captain Alternance, which we imagined together, carries the values which make the singularity of this booming educational path: transmission, excellence and employment”
, underlines Olivier Gauvin, the general delegate of the Walt association.
All the boats, starting with
Captain Alternance
, will be visible this Wednesday at Port Olona, in Les Sables-d'Olonne, on the Vendée Globe pontoon.
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