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, and you can bet you’ll read about
it on Oddity Central.
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