Swiss Alan Roura has never been to school. To be able to take the start of the biggest single-handed race in the world, he became a business leader.
Just because we go around the world alone doesn’t mean that the bills don’t arrive at home. In 2016, for his first Vendée Globe, the youngest of the race, the Swiss Alan Roura, had a strange surprise when he opened his letterbox on his return: 18,000 euros off the satellite communication package.
“I spent part of my year 2017 paying my debts like this. Fortunately, since 2018, I have managed to make a living from sailing”, blows the sailor who will again be the youngest in the race at the start des Sables d’Olonne, Sunday 8 November, with his sponsor, the Swiss biscuit maker La Fabrique, owner of his boat.
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