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| Location | La trinité sur Mer, France |
| Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
| Shooting date | Mai 1988 |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Original picture | Negative |
| Formats | Large format |
| Era | 1980-2000 |
| Colors | Black&White |
In the world of race and sailing, he is Rubi. A nickname he owes to Olivier de Kersauson, his shift companion of the first round the world race aboard Pen Duick VI in 1973. On his return, he changed course and took the opportunity to redouble its Cape Horn on Neptune in 1977. Long gone are the maths.
Prof. left teaching to start a nautical journalist activity. In 40 years of reporting, Bernard Rubinstein touches everything to satisfy his passion: the sea and the boats. Racing or cruising, he first tries them in Neptune Nautisme, Neptune Yachting and Voile Magazine. This is a pretext to sail close with the greatest sailors, from Alain Colas to Eric Tabarly, from Loïck Peyron to Armel Le Cleach through Franck Cammas. To face storms, he spends long periods on the Abeille Flandre and then its successor the tug Abeille Bourbon. Enthusiast about lighthouses, his collection on the subject is unique in France.
Besides, this is the time when these sea sentries were still occupied by guards that he landed on all lighthouses of the Iroise sea with a bonus of an eight days stay in the lighthouse of kings, Cordouan. Today, he can claim in all modesty to have lived since 1976, all departures of Transat, those of Rum and of the Vendée Globe. To have written and photographed hundreds of boats. It would be mistaken to think he could draw a certain vainglory from all that. He is Rubi, just Rubi.
No boat on the horizon, at the time when the last rays of sun will disappear into the ocean. No noise aboard Fleury Michon IX in conveying mode between La Trinité sur Mer and La Rochelle. Shot with a wide angle, Philippe Poupon immersed himself in loneliness on the front beam, one month prior to the departure of the English Transat 1988. Four years ago, it had left a bitter taste.
First to cross the finish line but demoted to second place by the organizers due to time bonuses awarded to Yvon Fauconnier for being derouted.
In June 88, this is a masterful victory signed by Philou on his tri designed by architect Nigel Irens, taking the opportunity to set a new record: 10 days and 9 hours to cover the 3,000 miles between Plymouth and Newport.
