HSH Prince Albert welcomed ocean explorer Yvan Griboval, who arrived alone in the OceanoScientific Explorer 16-metre “Boogaloo” at the pontoon of honour of the Monaco Yacht Club (YCM) early on Friday, June 2. Mr Griboval had been sailing for 150 days, avoiding pollution of the sea, and successfully carried out the first ever collection of oceanographic data in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current under the three Great Capes: Good Hope (South Africa), Leeuwin (Australia) and Horn (Chile), with sixty days of solo navigation in the Roaring Forties and the Shrieking Fifties. … Continue reading Prince welcomes ocean pioneer at Yacht Club