Corentin de Chatelperron, born in

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in 1983, is a French engineer, adventurist and manager of the "Gold of Bengal" project.

Career

After general engineering studies of ICAM he worked 3 years in the ecotourism and aeolian sector. Early in 2009 he went to

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to work in a modern shipyard producing fiberglass composite boats, the

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. Rapidly he thought of replacing the

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(which is a polluting, expensive and imported material) with

jute Jute is a long, soft, shiny bast fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced from flowering plants in the genus ''Corchorus'', which is in the mallow family Malvaceae. The primary source of the fiber is ''Corchorus olit ...

fiber, a natural local resource. So as to show the potential of the jute composite and to find partners, he built the sailboat ''Tara Tari'' (40% jute fiber, 60% fiberglass) and decided to come back to France on board. This six-month journey at sea, later called the "Tara Tari adventure" was a big success. With several partners, Corentin de Chatelperron launched "Gold of Bengal", a research project on the uses of jute fibre as a composite reinforcement. For 3 years, an eight-person team has been developing this innovation for Bangladesh (research, prototyping, technology transfer). This research project gave birth, in March 2013, to a second boat, "Gold of Bengal" made entirely in Bangladesh with 100% jute composite. Corentin de Chatelperron is a member of the Society of French Explorer and a scientific consultant for the French Sustainable School of Design.

Documentaries

• «Gold of Bengal, un voilier 100% jute», Voiles et Voiliers 2013 • «Corentin de Chatelperron un pionnier Shamengo», Kaïa Production, Shamengo • «Je traverse les océans sur un bateau en fibre de jute», Kaïa Production, Shamengo

Publications

«The Tara Tari Adventure», Les Editions Découvrance, 2011

Awards

*Prix Avenir de l'Institut Français de la Mer *Prix Bernard Moitessier 2011 *Mention speciale du Prix de la Toison d'Or du livre d'aventure vécue 2011 *Prix Aventure du

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2012 *Prix Pierre Loti 2012 *Prix René-Caillié 2012http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/Deux-Sevres/Communes/Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon/n/Contenus/Articles/2012/12/19/Remise-du-prix-Rene-Caillie-au-laureat

Conferences

«Jute do it!», Tedx Paris, December 2012

References

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