In Nantes
Since her early youth and her dips in Locquirec, in Finistère, on the Channel side, Élodie Bonafous has always had her gaze turned towards the sea and its mysterious horizons.
The outings with his father's small pleasure boat were then moments of wonder and celebration.
Around the age of 8, she enrolled in the local sailing school and began competing in the Optimist.
Sort of baptismal font of sailors in aquatic herbs.
Finally alone on a boat.
And already the competition.
With the complicity of parents and their motorhome for travel.
His first feat of arms?
A third place in the minimal French championship.
She will have to wait to integrate a sport-studies, in Brest for her high school years.
The pension away from her family was not a straitjacket since she could sail all the time.
So came the 420 regattas. “
It was difficult to find teammates who had the same desires.
Those of sailing by putting so much investment...
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