Marie Tabarly, from sea to daughter

"You want a sailor's face? Would you ask men that?" Marie Tabarly, who has a strong character and a naturally ingrained feminism, immediately addresses us. "Three-quarters of the time, journalists know what they want to write. Why not accept what we really are? I'm not a model. I won't take pictures on the beach," she warns. Describing her truth, she took care of it herself by writing Cavalcade océane. Victoire autour du monde sans satellite aboard Pen Duick VI , which has just been published by Arthaud, the historic publisher of salty adventures. We meet her at the Salon du Livre in Paris, at the Grand Palais one day in April.

In this male-dominated environment, where some reduce her to the mythical figure of her father by calling her a simple "Tabarly", she has managed to make her place . Without claiming to be a feminist, however. In her book, she recounts the day a sponsor asked her: "Are you captain? But, then, who is really in charge?"