George Larnicol, a 55-year-old French chocolatier, managed to
create and sail a 3.5-meter-long boat made of chocolate.
On Saturday, September 25, the walled city of Concarneau, in
north-western France, hosted an event unique in the world – the
launch of a full size chocolate boat.
George Larnicol, the mastermind behind this crazy creation,
first attempted to sail a chocolate boat on August 15, but the boat
crumbled to pieces when turned over from where it was mounted.
But one small failure wasn’t enough to make Larnicol quit, and
on Saturday, he returned to Concarneau port, with a new chocolate
boat named “Bateau Chocolat II” (French for Chocolate Boat
II)
The 1.2-ton-heavy boat had a sugar framework, while the rest of
it was made entirely of pure chocolate. It took Larnicol and his
team one and a half months to complete, working eight hours a day,
which adds up to a total of about 400 hours.
George Larnicol and a friend got in the chocolate boat and
sailed in it for a bout an hour, waving proudly to the audience,
and smiling the whole time. The attached electrical motor allowed
the Bateau Chocolat II to reach a top speed of 15km/h.
Chocolatier George Larnicol, who owns a chain of chocolate
shops in western France, promised to build a giant 12 meter-long
yacht, with two masts, made of 6 to 8 tons of chocolate, sometime
in 2012. That’s going to be a sight to be hold.
