Corentin de Chatelperron, born in Vannes in 1983, is a French engineer, adventurist and manager of the "Gold of Bengal" project.
[1] Rapidly he thought of replacing the fibreglass (which is a polluting, expensive and imported material) with jute fiber, a natural local resource.
[clarification needed] With several partners, Corentin de Chatelperron launched "Gold of Bengal",[4] a research project on the uses of jute fibre as a composite reinforcement.
[citation needed] This research project gave birth, in March 2013, to a second boat, "Gold of Bengal" [5] made entirely in Bangladesh with 100% jute composite.
[citation needed] • «Gold of Bengal, un voilier 100% jute», Voiles et Voiliers 2013 • «Corentin de Chatelperron un pionnier Shamengo», Kaïa Production, Shamengo • «Je traverse les océans sur un bateau en fibre de jute», Kaïa Production, Shamengo «The Tara Tari Adventure», Les Editions Découvrance, 2011 «Jute do it!», Tedx Paris, December 2012