Since 1982, he has been a journalist for the Cahiers du Yachting and Voiles & Voiliers specialist sailing magazines and has written for newspapers such as Le Monde, La Croix and La Tribune de Geneve. He is an author and illustrator of reference works on the history of French and international yachting, and has notably received the 1988 Salon du Livre Maritime prize, the 1994 Patrimoine Maritime award and the Neptunia Prize in 1994.