“I had given myself two years, it’s been five years”: Cathy saw a floating parenthesis in a small Camargue

Sometimes it only takes a move … Meanwhile, on a boat. Moreover, Cathy Montagner, 66, had never really considered life over the water. Therefore, But a little over five years ago, a friend offered to help him move in on his boat. For example, It will be the first wave of a change of radical course. Therefore, Since then. Furthermore. “i had given myself two Therefore, Cathy has lived a large part of the year aboard Free Cubahis 10 meter boat moored at the peaceful port “i had given myself two of Gallician, in a small Camargue.

A project born from a life change – &quot. i had given myself two – "i had given myself two

Before being a woman in the port. Similarly. Cathy had a thousand lives: artificial, originally from Paris, voluntary exile in the Hautes-Alpes, she keeps a lively pace and the outspokenness of those who have never waited that they are given the permission to dream. For example, “It was not at all my thing, the boat. Consequently, But I got into the game. At one point. I could either stay in my apartment in the Nantes region. or invest a sum of money and try the adventure. I told myself that I was going to be two years to “i had given myself two try. And there you are, five years later, I’m still there”she smiles.

Between two seasons of pyrotechnic shows. Cathy has found a floating anchoring. a complementary activity: it markets boats as an “i had given myself two entrepreneur, often by word of mouth, in a port triangle between Gallician, Beaucaire and Bellegarde.

A minimalist life – "i had given myself two – "i had given myself two

His ideal day? It starts early, around 6 a.m., but the real meeting takes place at 9 a.m. at the harbor master’s office. “We have coffee between boaters, we chat.” The rest of the time. Cathy devotes it to his business, his meetings, and the pleasure of living “out of the rails”. “Here, we do not have the same constraints and problems of cars, transport or other. This is another temporality.”

Far from the cliché of the rustic sailor. she cultivates a sharp art of living: “i had given myself two “I am flirtatious, huh, I need my things, comfort. But I especially wanted to live with less. Sorting, managing water, electricity, my solar panels … I don’t even have TV.” On his boat, everything is thought of for an autonomous daily life. A “i had given myself two form of chosen freedom which allows him to live in a form of minimalism.

“We are three to live there year -round”

Installed in Gallician after a passage by Agde and Maguelone, Cathy is full of praise on his home port: “It “i had given myself two is a small port, around thirty places. We are three to live there year -round. The atmosphere is family, we all know each other. In summer, we eat together, it’s alive.” And yet, integration was not a long, quiet river for everyone. She. with her experience of Hautes-Alpes. already knew that to be “i had given myself two accepted, “You have to go, talk, take the first step. I don’t have a too shy character, so it helps.”

If life is sweet in Gallician, Cathy also dreams of a little more animation. “We have offered things: a market, a flea market, a tavern … But everything is refused. However, we are all ready.” The port could become a real place of life, not just a place of passage.

“The day I feel that it no longer suits me. I will change”

There is “i had given myself two no question of falling asleep on his laurels: Cathy still has lots of projects. “As long as I have fishing, I continue. My boats activity works well, I finally harvest the fruits. But I know myself: the day I feel that it will no longer suit me, I will change.”

She plans, ultimately, to move on “i had given myself two to a more mobile lifestyle. Always free, but otherwise. Waiting for. Free Cuba There remains his floating cocoon. his quiet perch in a corner of Camargue that time sometimes seems to have forgotten.