EMMANUEL VANNIER

Emmanuel, a sailor and project engineer with more than 20 years experience in Electricity, Electronics, Energy management (both marine and domestic) and Medical imaging equipment.

He will be updating delegates on a new biofouling innovation called K-REN by Factory, which is essentially an underwater cover for your boat, developed in France and custom made in New Caledonia for the Pacific.

The inventors say it takes an average of 20 minutes to install, for a single person on a 30 foot boat. It is free of chemicals, recyclable, and for storage fits into a bag about the same size as a mainsail bag.