“I live in my suitcase”: In 2017, Mike Birch, the taciturn of the seas, revealed himself to Figaro

In the small galaxy of offshore racing, there are the aces of communication, these sailors perfectly trained in the media exercise.

With Michel Desjoyeaux, Franck Cammas, Loïck Peyron or François Gabart, all you have to do is turn on your dictaphone and start the discussion to put a good subject in a box.

Then there are the strong heads like Olivier de Kersauson with whom you sometimes have to fight like in a boxing ring to extract the essential marrow.

And there are the others, free spirits, satellites lost in a gallery of increasingly formatted athletes in front of the media.

Mike Birch is part of this special caste, timeless solitaries, who give all the salt to the exercise of the interview.

The Canadian, who became a legend of the seas after his victory in the very first edition of the Route du rhum in 1978 on his little trimaran

came to visit

on the occasion of the release of his book,

(Editions Arthaud).

Simply dressed...

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