In this issue, Sabine Quindou first goes to Port-La Forêt, in Finistère. It is indeed here that a school of excellence is nestled: the Pôle France "Course au lLarge". Its mission: to detect and select talented young skippers. And then it was in Saint-Malo that Thalassa witnessed the departure of a unique and promising sailboat, just out of the shipyard: "Grain d'Sail".