Stroboscopie pour étude de palmage - 1994
Banc de requins gris - Fakarava -Tuamotus - 2015
Crabe des Galapagos - 2010
Jeune fou pattes rouges - Los Aves - Venezuela 2013
Pélican - Los Roques - Venezuela - 2013
Dérive cloche sous marine - océan Indien - 1998
Prao Rosières - 1982
Prao Pacifique Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon - 1986
Atoll Los rocas - Traversée Atlantique Sud en ULM - 1991
Traversée Atlantique Sud ULM - Arrivée Fernando de Norohna - 1991
Traversée Atlantique nage et dérive - 1995
Los Llanos - Venezuela 2013
Tête tortue verte - Isabella - Galapagos - 2014
Dolphins - Atlantique - 2012
Tête d'Anaconda - Los Llanos - 2013
Prao Funambule - recordman du monde de vitesse open - Brest 1981
Jeune frégate - San Cristobal - Galapagos 2014

« When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money »
proverbe indien d'Amérique

     GUY DELAGE

BIOGRAPHY

 

November 8, 1952: Birth in a small village in the South of the Aisne: Bézu saint Germain

Summer 1956: Successful debut in swimming

Summer 1965: Beginning of a passion for sailing

1971: Diplomas of swimming teacher and sailing teachers. Crossing of the « Channel » alone without assistance

1973: Military service in the navy. Swimming crossing between Le Conquet to Ouessant with fin alone and without assistance

1975: First Atlantic crossing, sailing as a skipper.

1976: Purchase of "Ras le bol", a sailboat of 12 m "dream of Antilles". Transformation and redevelopment. 1500 hours of snorkeling and underwater hunting

1978: Design and construction of Salamandre aluminum sloop (40 feet). 1st trans-oceanic regatta: the "Route du Rhum". (*)

1980: Design and construction of the proa Funambule. Beginning of piloting gliders.

1981: New-York Brest with the proa "Metabo Oceans" (*)

1982: La Rochelle - New Orleans with the proa "Lestra Sport" (*)
         - Death of my father
         - Construction of the proa "Rosières"
         - The articulated Proa Rosières folds eighteen minutes after the departure of the "Route du Rhum". Insurance destroys it during towing!

1983: Conveyor of a large ketch between Balearic Islands and Los Angeles

1984-1985: Building of the proa "Montpellier-Languedoc-Roussillon"
Aircraft and ULM pilot certificates

1986: Broken mast of "Montpellier-Languedoc-Roussillon" and cessation of the operation

1987: Creation of a ULM pilot school in Millau

1988: Organization of a ULM hydro rallye on the lakes of Aveyron
Organization of an ultra light air show in Millau
Deposit of a patent about seaplane float. Realization of the first floats intended specifically for trikes microlights!

1989: 2nd edition of the "Translacs", hydro ULM rallye on the lakes of Aveyron and Tarn!

1990: Preparation of "La Route de Mermoz" in ULM (Nantes - Récife in ultralight)
- Training in voluntary insomnia with the service of Pr Arbus (Rangueil hospital Toulouse)
- Design and construction of 3 microlights for Atlantic crossing

November December 1991: Nantes to Recife by ULM (first crossing of the equatorial Atlantic in ultralight)
1992-1993: Preparation of the Atlantic crossing for swimming and drifting
         Deposit of several patents (fins, mask, wet suit)
         Studies, design and construction of materials intended for the crossing.

1994-1995: "OceaNantes" or the Cape Verde islands to Barbados swimmig and drifting

1996-1997: Preparation of "Mission Oxygène" (submarine drift in the Indian Ocean)

1998: Realization of "Mission Oxygène". Ocean Observer sank after 13 days of drift ! I survived !

1999-2002: Construction of the catamaran Izamma

2000: Creation of the event the "Merveilleux fous navigants" in Saint-Raphaël (ecological gear)
          Continuation of the catamaran construction

2002-2006: Cruises in the Caribbean with the catamaran Itzamma

2006: Start of construction of the Dagda monohull

November 2009: patenting an aeration gear for pleasure sailboats (Dorcap)

May 2010: Skipper for a convoy of a catamaran from Saint Martin to Tahiti

August 2012: Launching of Dagda 65 feet monohull

August 2012 - August 2015: Navigations in the Caribbean and the Pacific (French Polynesia) with Dagda!

11 August 2015: Dagda shipwreck deemed insubmersible after night shock with an OFNI in the South Pacific

August 2016: Back in France and creation of a micro consulting company!


(*) Sailing palmares:
1978 - Rte du Rhum: second in class less than 40 feet, 9th in scratch,
1981 - multihull trophy: 1st to scratch
         - best time of the tour of Guadeloupe
         - world sailing open speed on a base to (27.7 knots). Time hold during 7 years
         - 1st in class New york Brest and second in scratch
         - Smallest boat and third boat to beat Charlie Barr's time on the Atlantic crossing!
1982 - La Rochelle New Orleans: 1st in class and 3rd in scratch

(**) 430 000 nautical miles sailed / 11 000 flight hours on different types of aircraft (light aircraft, gliders, microlight, paragliding, deltas), 150 parachute jumps, about 10 000 hours spent on diving or in apnea ...