“Le Vagabond”, a sailboat born in Trentemoult in 1973, becomes “Le Ville de Rezé”

On 21 May 2019, the City of Rezé christened “Le Ville de Rezé”, a sailboat that now lives on dry land. Built in Trentemoult in 1973 at the Chantier du port, one of the village's family boatyards, this Mopelia pleasure boat sailed for nearly forty-five years. It had lost its centreboard and was deteriorating when its owner handed it over for a symbolic one euro to the Bathô workshop, which turned it into an unusual dwelling. The christening is a reminder that Trentemoult was also a village of boatbuilders, not only of fishermen and Loire pilots, and that a piece of that know-how lives on in a new form.