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Gwénolé Gahinet and PaulMeilhat crossed the finishline first, on Monday April 28to win the 12th edition of LaTransat AG2R LA MON-DIALE, a transatlantic regattathat takes place every twoyears on identical FigaroBénéteau II single-hull sail-boats. The last to finish wereMathieu Forbin and ArthurPrat (Guadeloupe GrandLarge 1) on Thursday, May 1,with the awards ceremonythe next day on the dock.

They were hungry for victory andsailed in to claim it right atlunchtime! Sailing on Safran–Guy Cotten, Gwenolé Gahinetand Paul Meilhat were the first tocross the finish line in SaintBarth to win the 12th edition dela Transat AG2R LA MONDI-ALE at 1:17pm on Monday,April 28. Precisely after 22 days,6 hours, 17 minutes, and 59 sec-onds of racing!

These two skippers are nowamong the champions of this leg-endary transatlantic race that setssail from Concarneau, in Brittany,France, every two years aboardidentical single-hull FigaroBénéteau II boats, with the finishline in Saint Barth, via an obliga-tory buoy in La Palma, CanaryIslands. “It’s a dream come true!

We believed we could do itbefore setting sail, but from thereto actually win, considering thehigh level of talent in the fleetthis year, it’s quite extraordi-nary,” admits Gahinet, who wasinterviewed on the dock after cel-ebrating with the traditional sprayof champagne.

Exactly 1 hour, 6 minutes, and 53seconds later, Fabien Delahayeand Yoann Richomme, aboardSkipper Macif, sailed across theline for second place. Behindthem, a superb duel for thirdplace between AlexiaBarrier/Laurent Pellecuer (30Corsaires) and Roland Jour-dain/Martin Le Pape (LaCornouaille), as the duosapproached the Port of Gustaviain a display of match racing, skill-fully tacking around the boatsanchored in the harbor. Barrierand Pellecuer maintained an 87-second lead over their adversariesto complete the podium.

Gwénolé Gahinet and Paul Meilhat(Safran–Guy Cotten) Win The 2014Transat Ag2r La Mondiale

Fabien Delahaye and Yoann Richomme, aboard Skipper Macif,

Gwénolé Gahinet and Paul Meilhat (Safran–Guy Cotten) Win The2014 Transat Ag2r La Mondiale


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Ten other boats were yet to come,with two having abandoned earlyin the race due to technical prob-lems. By Wednesday morning, thearrival of the first sailors to havetaken the northern route to crossthe ocean—an unlucky decisionas they suffered from a seriouslack of wind. These includedsome big names in French oceanracing, such as MichelDesjoyeaux, who won this race in1992, and sailed this year withCorentin Horeau (Bretagne-CréditMutuel Performance). Not tomention Jean Le Cam, also a for-mer winner of the AG2R LAMONDIALE, sailing in a duowith Gildas Mahé (Interface Con-cept).

The 2014 edition of the eventcame to a close with the arrivalof the last boat—Mathieu Forbin

and Arthur Prat (GuadeloupeGrand Large 1)—on Thursday,May 1, in the evening. They hadbeen at sea for 25 days, 13 hours,14 minutes, and 29 seconds to

cover the 3,890 nautical miles toSaint Barthélémy. The awardsceremony was held on the maindock in Gustavia, on Fridayevening May 2.

A superb duel for third place between Alexia Barrier/Laurent Pellecuer(30 Corsaires) and Roland Jourdain/Martin Le Pape (La Cornouaille), asthe duos approached the Port of Gustavia in a display of match racing.



F ollowing on theheels of the SaintBarth Bucket and

Les Voiles, and arrivingliterally days after theTransat ag2r, the sixthannual West IndiesRegatta adds a touch ofold time sailing mixedwith a Caribbean marketand even a few down-islanders cooking up Italcabbage soup right onthe dock. The event mayhave lost a bit of itsunique identity this yearas it shared the dockwith the race village forthe Transat, but on theother hand that mightalso mean more peoplewere milling about overthe weekend. The event

is organized by AlexisAndrews in cooperationwith the Tourism Com-mittee of Saint Barth, thelocal UNESCO club,and the Port of Gustaviaand took place the firstweekend in May, withracing on Saturday andSunday, May 3 & 4.

“It may have been thebest sailing we everhad,” says Lee David-son, an American resi-dent of Saint Barth whosails in this event everyyear. “Every race hadgroups of two or threeboats sailing together,which made it moreexciting. On the raceback from Colombier on

Sunday, there were fiveboats within 10 boatlengths of each other,which made it a lot offun. I went out on Sum-mer Cloud, which has nomotor, and is great tomaneuver… the crewsincluded captains of bigschooners to St Barthsailing school students,it’s nice that a lot of kidswent out during theraces.”

The fleet this year com-prised a nice mix of tra-ditional boats, includingthe 1951 Clyde Tug"Flying Buzzard,” whichserved as the committeeboat and had recentlybeen the Antigua ClassicYacht Regatta Commit-tee Vessel. The Carria-cou sloops were Zemi, a42 foot Alwyn Enoedesign; Exodus, the lat-est Alwyn Enoe cre-ation, which lives inAntigua and returned toSt.Barth for the secondyear; Tradition, thelargest sloop in the race;Sweetheart; Savvy fromGrenada;Genesis, winner of theAntigua classic 2014;

Ocean Nomad; andSummer Cloud, lastyear’s winner. Zemi wasdeclared this year’s win-ner, with Skullduggeryrum to celebrate.

Two schooners were onhand as well: AlexanderHamilton, built in Nevisand arriving fromDominica fully ladenwith fresh organic pro-duce and skippered byAndrew Robinson; andScaramouche, theQueen of The WestIndies Regatta Fleet,which sailed up from St.Vincent.

The best thing is theauthentic spirit that per-vades the West IndiesRegatta (westindiesregatta.com),a gathering of the tradi-tional boats that onceplied the waters of theCaribbean carryinggoods from island toisland. The regatta alsopromotes the dying artof West Indian boatbuilding, something wellworth saving.

2014 WEST INDIES REGATTA:

ODE TO OLD TIME SAILING Ellen Lampert-Gréaux, photos by Rosemond Gréaux



T hanks to every-one for joining usand contributing

to the success of thisyear's festival, especial-ly everyone in SaintBarth who providedhospitality for ourguests. This was anotherexciting year—our 19th!We had a wonderfulprogram and an excep-tional list of invitedguests—directors, pro-ducers, distributors, andan actress—showingworks from Colombia,Guadeloupe, Trinidad &Tobago, Martinique, andCuba, with guests fromParis, New York, Barba-dos, Guadeloupe,Colombia, and as far asGermany. We coveredan extraordinary rangeof themes including thecomplex choices facingpeople fleeing repres-sion (Una Noche) andeconomic collapse(Melaza). We took along hard look at whatreally happened to theNew Jewel Movement

in Grenada, followedtwo extraordinary stick-men as they rediscover atraditional martial art,took a close look at thelife of a hardworkinglighthouse keeper as hetries to balance workand his responsibilitiesto others, and of coursewe closed the week onthe sands of Flamandsbeach with an exuberanttake on the life andmusic of the extraordi-nary Kelvis Ochoa!

During the afternoons,we showed a number ofexcellent documentariesincluding two by GillesElie-Dit-Cosaque cover-ing the recent strikesprotesting the high costof living in the FrenchCaribbean, and thesocial unrest inspired byPele’s visit to Mar-tinique in 1971. Thisfilmmaker also visited aclass at the elementaryschool in Gustavia toshare his art and craftwith the students. We

also showed a livelycomic vision of a mantrying to save his homein Guadeloupe, a por-trait of Trinidad’s lead-ing architect ColinLaird, as well as aremarkable examinationof some of the remain-ing craftsmen of Guade-loupe through memoriesfound in a diary.

Once again, specialthanks to StephanieJames for introducingthe films and runningthe discussions with theaudience—sometimes inthree languages, and ofcourse we thank ourpartner and great friend

Jean-Marc Césaire ofCiné Woulé, withoutwhose help we wouldnot be able to projectlarge screen video onthe beach or at the WallHouse Museum. Theshow went on! Andfinally, many thanks toour friends at AJOE fortheir ongoing supportand for the use of theiramazing new digitalprojection system. Notennis court ever had itso good! On to next yearfor the 20th! ---- JoshuaHarrison, co-founder,artistic director, St BarthFilm Festival

ST BARTH FILM FESTIVAL: A SUCCESSFUL 19TH EDITION

Gilles Elie-Dit-Cosaque © Bruce Paddington

Karent Hinestroza © Bruce Paddington



N adège Emmanuelian hascompleted the programfor the 13th annual St

Barth Theatre Festival, whichtakes place May 16-25. Thisyear’s program comprises a vari-ety of theatrical productions (inFrench). In his one-man cabaret-style show, Ali Bougheraba pres-ents “Ali In Wonderland,” full ofhumor, poetry, and memories ofPanier, his childhood neighbor-hood in Marseille. Another actorwho promises laughter is AntoineDuléry, a French movie actorseen in the latest film by ClaudeLelouch, “Salaud on t’aime.”His show, “Antoine Dulery faitson cinéma, mais au théâtre,”plays tribute to the cinema as theactor exhibits his brilliant senseof impersonation as he evokesone iconic French movie starafter the other.

If theatre is made of gestures aswell as words, then Yves Marc

and his “Theatre of Move-ment” is an expert in the art.He will appear at the festi-val with his production, “CeCorps qui parle,” in whichhe transforms small dailygestures, oh so eloquently.This type of movement isonly one step away fromdance, which on the The-atre Festival’s roster thisyear, with Raoul Fernan-dez, an actor who workswith Stanislas Nordey or

Jorge Lavelli, but is also a direc-tor and choreographer. Fernandezwill present an original piecetitled “Tango Gardel,” in homageto composer Carlos Gardel, andperformed by Julien Touati. Saint

Barth also has the honor of wel-coming Michelle Kokosowski tothe festival. NadègeEmmanuelian gave free reign tothis university theatre professorand theorist who founded anddirected the World Theatre Festi-val in Nancy, France, where sheintroduced such important theatreartists as Jerzy Grotowski andTadeusz Kantor. From May 17through the end of the month,Michelle Kokosowski will pres-ent projections from her archivesand lead discussions at theEspace Météo above Gustavia.

A BACKSTAGE LOOK AT THE 13TH ANNUALST BARTH THEATRE FESTIVAL: MAY 16-25

MEMORIES OF SAINT BARTHON STAGE AND IN CREOLESince late November, SB Artists hasbeen running a theatre workshopin Creole, with about 20 partici-pants, including 16 adults, who arenow ready to tread the boards.Their play, “Tell Me About SaintBarth,” will be presented at theThéâtre du Paradis in Gustavia onFriday and Saturday, May 9 and10 at 8pm, with a matinee on Sun-day, May 11 at 3pm, for thosewho like to go to bed early. Thesesketches, written by the actors them-selves, evoke old challenges in Saint Barth, from students going awayto school to migrations to Saint Thomas, linked by a common thread.The sketches will be performed in Creole, with at least one in Patois.Those who do not speak Creole can follow along thanks to a printedprogram in French.


A BACKSTAGE LOOK AT THE 13TH ANNUALST BARTH THEATRE FESTIVAL: MAY 16-25


Live Music� Through May 10- Dani Elliot Band from 9pmto midnight, Baz Bar � May 12-May 31- Last band of the seasonTBA from 9pm to midnight,Baz Bar � Every FridayLadies Night @ Bagatelle� Friday, May 9- I Love Friday @ La PlageRestaurant, Dinner Musicwith DJ Yo-One, Pole Danc-ing Show, Fire Spinner ,Wild Side Fashion Shows, @La Plage St Jean- DJ Maxx-C at Bonito- Meltin’pop trio with specialguest «Jamie Sherman»Do Brazil, Gustavia- Madness Week End @ Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou- Soul Division Live @ The First� Saturday May 10- Bikini Brunch from 12pmuntil 5.30pm, Bikini FashionShows, Music by DJ RockBaze @La Plage Restaurant- Wine Tasting with theWine Tasters of St Barthfrom 7 to 9pm, La Plage - Lunch with Live Musicwith Robb, from noon atMango, Christopher Hotel- DJ Yo One at Bonito, - Live Music with Soley &Co from 8pm at Taiwana- Madness Week End@Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou- Soul Division Live @ The First, Gustavia� Sunday, May 11- Live music with PierreNesta & Papaguyo from 5 at

Zen Bar, Do Brazil, Gustavia- Live music for the Brunchwith Robb from 11am @ Toiny Hotel.- Sunday C’est Chic ! BeachLunch, Music by DJ Yo One@ La Plage Restaurant- Amazing Sunday «BrazilParty» from 1pm, Samba!Eat, drink, dance and cele-brate like you're in Rio deJaneiro. @ Nikki Beach- Live Music with Soley &Co from 8pm at Bonito- Madness Week End @ Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou- Black Sunday @The First� Monday May 12- Live Music “Jazz &Goldies” from 7:30pm @ Sereno� Tuesday May 13- Brazilian Evening : LiveMusic with Soley & Cara-van Style, bossa-nova,samba... from 7:30pm@Christopher hotel- Diner Cabaret withshow girls at Ti St Barth- Live Music with PierreNesta from 5 to 7 pm @ Do Brazil, Zen bar � Wednesday, May 14- Diner Cabaret withshow girls at Ti St Barth- Live Music with Soley &Co from 8pm at Taiwana- Sunset with Pierre Nestafrom 5 to 7 pm @ Zen bar Do Brazil, Gustavia� Thursday, May 15- Lady’s First @ The First- Diner Cabaret withshow girls at Ti St Barth- Pierre Nesta in live @ Taïno Restaurant,Christopher Hotel� Friday, May 16- I Love Friday @ La PlageRestaurant, Dinner Musicwith DJ Yo-One, Pole Danc-ing Show, Fire Spinner ,Wild Side Fashion Shows, @La Plage St Jean- DJ Maxx-C at Bonito

- Meltin’pop trio with specialguest «Jamie Sherman»Do Brazil, Gustavia- Madness Week End @ Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou- Soul Division Live @ The First� Saturday May 17- Bikini Brunch from 12pmuntil 5.30pm, Bikini FashionShows, Music by DJ RockBaze @La Plage Restaurant- Lunch with Live Musicwith Robb, from noon atMango, Christopher Hotel- DJ Yo One at Bonito, - Madness Week End@Ti St Barth, Pointe Milou- Soul Division Live @ The First, Gustavia� Sunday, May 18- Amazing Sunday «VenitianParty» from 1pm, @ NikkiBeach, St Jean

Fashion Show � Daily Fashion Shows- Fashion Show: every lunch& dinner, La Plage� Tuesday May 13Fashion Show around thepool from 6:00pm, @ HotelIsle de France, Flamands

Exhibitions- «D’île en Elle» paintingexhibition @ Marlas VillasAgency, Gustavia- Dave Stevenson, GéryLanglais, Alain le Chatelier,Ed Gudenas, J-Yves Lefortat Les Artisans, Gustavia- Wolfgang Ludes, Jean-Philippe Piter, Antoine Ver-glas at Clic Gallery, Gustavia- Group show at PipiriPalace, Gustavia- Olivia Lerolle & JohannaAstrie at Do Brazil

Where to go dancing? See an art exhibit? Listen to live music? Time Out keeps you up to date on local happenings. Let’s party !

Michel and his staff are happy to welcome you to their pool-side restaurant for lunch & dinner.

Holiday special, in addition to our regular menu. Lobsters Fresh From The Tank

100 g for 7,00 euros

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