Arctic Program
Beyond the Arctic Circle. Polar night. A course for the magnetic pole. The expedition was undertaken by the Company’s founder – solo, by snowmobile. Nothing resembled the world known at sea level. The expedition suit was closer to a spacesuit than to clothing: complete isolation from an environment that does not account for human presence.
No infrastructure. No daylight. No point of reference beyond one’s own track. A magnetic storm disrupted GPS. Near the pole the compass needle no longer points north – it dips towards the ground. One thing remains: one’s own track. The first approach remained unfinished. The retreat – by choice, not by necessity. Polaris was the first but certainly not the last of the Company’s expeditions.
Cannes Yachting Festival
Each September we return to the Vieux Port. The quay is the same and never the same – a forest of masts against the ochre of Le Suquet, the morning anchorage scattered across silver water like notes across a stave, the Croisette at dusk under palms strung with small lights. The light turns golden an hour early, and the water carries every sound further than it should.
We come not as visitors but as regulars – it is a return, not an arrival. The sea teaches the same lesson as music: a phrase must never be hurried. We bring friends and partners – conversations begun on deck mature over dinner in the harbour, and the relationships that carry the rest of the year take on their proper weight.
Port Hercule – where the circuit runs past the hulls
In Monaco the sea and the circuit share one frame: the street course threads around the Port Hercule basin, past the moored hulls, while above the bay the copper roofs of the Salle Garnier weather green – opera house and marina in a single view. Beyond, at Le Castellet, the Paul Ricard circuit waits.
On the water, at the wheel and in a box at the opera, the same thing counts: the precision of the line, not the badge on the machine; holding a course, not the noise of the harbour. In Monaco everything that matters speaks in a low voice.
Horizons gathers the company’s exploratory and maritime interests. They are not part of the commercial business. They reflect how we think: preparation over improvisation, endurance over haste.