Loulou the former

Louis Lalanne known as Loulou entered the world of canoeing quite by chance through Gilles Maitere Gilles had a science an art He had been introduced to canoeing by old Tahitians For him the canoe was a way of life an art and a cult At first Loulou didnt really understand The canoeist holds an ancestral oar the canoe was used to immigrate At the time when Europeans were still using sextants Polynesian navigators were reading nature They navigated by the stars the positioning of the moon and reading the winds and currents The chop of the sea and the position of the clouds