We are spent hours without ever counting

The ground is strewn with wood chips. The new mast (27 mounted meters) of "Tuiga", the century-old cutter of the Yacht Club of Monaco is ready. Gilbert Pasqui touches the work of the hand. "It is good work," he smiles. The shipwright is proud of his team. They are six in the shipyard Pasqui, small, but the best in Europe, say the sailors. "tuiga" will be able to worthily celebrate its 100 years at the next Classic Week in Monaco in September. Gilbert Pasqui will of course of the day, but he thinks already to make net room in his workshop for "Vision", a Nicholson of 1930 he will fully restore with architect Jacques Fauroux. The specification is unambiguous: this 8 metres make the winner of the next World Championship in the category, in July 2010, to Toronto, to the Canada. A sacred challenge. Gilbert Pasqui displays a serenity of old sea Wolf. The most prestigious yachts are passed his hands in over forty years of business, it will be at the height. He has never doubted since, kid, he brought the snack bar to his father. It was on the shipyard reserve, in Nice. He devoured eyes these boats. "I always knew what I wanted to do", he says. Against paternal wishes, to fourteen, certificate in your pocket, he joined the site. "I just learned by looking at the old work", remembers Gilbert Pasqui. He must wait before they can handle the robot. "It takes years to train a good Carpenter of Navy". The former had safe and precise action. "They worked quickly, but did not always share their expertise," he said again.

Felix Sylvestro and Roger Zabelli will be its masters. And today, Gilbert Pasqui shape turn young people: "I hide nothing, I show any.His project was able to see the day, but for the shipwright is to ensure the sustainability of the Pasqui site. It just created a SARL to prepare for his succession: "today I have a good team, it will soon take over," notes yet. Gilbert Pasqui knows that it is never entirely away. The vaults of stone from the former arsenal of the galleys, housed in the fortifications of the basin of the camber of Villefranche, camping decor has become indispensable to his life since he has installed his site in 1994. The intoxicating smell of wood, diffuse light, rumours of the workshop give a soul to this classified site on the port. Former apprentices have settled nearby. And the activity is not lacking. Gilbert Pasqui, whose shipyard is labeled company heritage living since 2007, can afford the luxury to choose its customers. He worked on the boats that do dream. After the parenthesis of the 1970s and the triumph of the polyester, yachts of tradition have found favour with lovers of the sea. Gatherings multiply, including on the Côte d'Azur: sails of Antibes and Saint-Tropez, regatta Royales in Cannes, etc. A Pasqui trophy saw the day in 2004. Tribute to Villefranche Carpenter and his forty years of occupation, forty of the most beautiful sailing ships on which the site Pasqui worked were given an appointment for a regatta of anthology.

If the man in the hands of gold is proud to have restored a second youth legend as "mariska" vessels (1908), the "Tuiga" (1909), "Hallowe'en ' in" (1926), but also the "Zaca" (1929, it was the sailboat of Errol Flynn) or even the "Agneta" (the former boat of Gianni Agnelli) to name but a few, it is a sharp small cruise of the 1950s which occupies first place in his heart. "The old Charles", name given to him by the actor Charles Vanel, to which he belonged, had finally abandoned in a case. Gilbert Pasqui, who himself by chance, he restored to life with his apprentices. While mahogany, with chords in ash, bridge in teak and engine nine, it is such that the actor was known to him. "We are spent hours, without ever counting." "It did not award for me, because this boat, this is my father, Mario, who built it," concludes Gilbert Pasqui.

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