A little gem costing €700,000, financed primarily by the Corsican Territorial Collectivity, the Department, and the SNSM, as recalled by Xavier de La Gorce, the national president of the SNSM. This ultra-modern lifeboat was custom-designed to adapt to the region's sailing conditions. «This boat is self-righting, meaning that once it's upside down, if the doors are closed, it automatically returns to its original position, upright,» explains Daniel Muller, an SNSM rescuer from Saint-Florent. All SNSM volunteers in Corsica came to attend this event. Aboard their lifeboats based in Bastia, Macinaggio, Ajaccio, Propriano, and Calvi. All were on parade to celebrate the latest arrival: the Conca d’Oru of Saint-Florent.
It is to the wife of the mayor of Saint Florent and to army general Vincent Lanata, former chief of staff of the air force, a regular at the marina for 50 years, godmother and godfather of the new Conca d’Oru that the SNSM wanted to pay tribute to once again.
A role that both welcomed with honour after smashing the traditional champagne bottle on the bow of the Conca d’Oru. Previously, Georges Nicoli, parish priest of Saint-Florent, had called for prayer while christening the SNSM unit, which has carried out some thirty interventions since it began sailing around the Saint-Florent marina.
This beautiful day of the SNSM festival continued with a sortie of all the lifeboats, and their guests who joined the Abeille Flandre, moored in the gulf, for a second ceremony at sea.
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