The team

There is no lack of information on Victorien's exemplary career, yet it is not easy to paint a portrait of him: in barely 40 springs, it is difficult to summarize his life in a leaflet. Born with his feet in the water of the corsair city (Saint-Malo), his beginnings in sport sailing are just like the rest of the story: punchy and passionate.

With a Route du Rhum at the age of 26 that ended on the podium in a Multi50 (whereas he had not spent a single night at sea in a racing boat before!), his career as a top-level athlete got off to a strong start. Even if the call of the open sea would make him sail for many years with an impressive list of achievements, a more pressing call would make him change course: that of the planet, in perdition both on land and at sea. Sketches of the project that will become Energy Observer date back to 2013, with several developments before becoming the renewable energy and hydrogen laboratory ship we know today.

"Energy Observer is more than just a boat; it is a demonstrator and collector of solutions. It designs a future that has already begun. A long-term and evolving project that wishes to create a wave of positive energies."

"Today, energy is experiencing a true revolution by integrating an increasingy number of renewable energies with different vectors: electricity, heat, and hydrogen. There are real technical challenges in connecting these fluxes, and it is even more ambitious to try this on a vessel. Therefore, Energy Observer is a foreshadowing of tomorrow's energy networks on earth."