It's a story of flawless brotherhood and co-dependence.
Two years adrift have encouraged a cozy relationship between the two kindred Mariners as they cross the globe, through warm climate and frosty.
One is a 24-year-old male. The other is a hen.
Guirec Soudee - the 24 year old guy - is the person who does a significant portion of the diligent work on board the pontoon.
Monique is the hen, who invests a significant part of her energy appreciating the perspective from the deck, and laying the broken egg.
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| Monique has quickly adapted to life at sea... |
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| ...even if some forms of transport have proven more rudimentary than others |
The two have begun developing a nearby after online as of late as French media have gotten on their foreign enterprise.
Guirec, who is from Brittany in France, started his outing the world over with Monique in May 2014.
In the wake of beginning from the Canary Islands, Spanish region close to Africa's west drift, the pair cruised to St Bart's in the Caribbean before moving into the Arctic last August.
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| Monique's arrival baffled chicken-free Greenland |
(All pictures are civility of Guirec Soudee)
"She was just around four or five months old then and had never left the Canary Islands. I didn't talk any Spanish, and she didn't talk any French, yet we got along."
Guirec had wanted to bring along a pet for the organization, yet a hen wasn't initially on the cards.
"I contemplated a feline, however, chose it would be an excess of the push to take care of it," he says.
"The hen was a perfect decision. It needn't bother with that much caring for, and I'm ready to get eggs adrift. Individuals let me know it wouldn't work, that the hen would be excessively focused and wouldn't lay eggs.
"Yet, there was no issue; she laid eggs straight away. She adjusted to it splendidly - she was extremely agreeable rapidly."
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Monique has proven herself to be an expert paddle-boarder...
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| ...and wind-surfer |
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...as well as a skilled swimmer
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Over a normal week, Monique lays six eggs, even wide open to the harsh elements climes of Greenland and notwithstanding amid three months there without the sun.
Guirec says local people in Greenland have responded with some interest to her nearness - justifiable, maybe, given there is no poultry cultivating there.
Life is entirely agreeable for Monique on board the 11.8-meter (39ft) watercraft, named Yvinec after the island on which Guirec grew up.
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| "Compared with people, she doesn't complain at all." |
While she is allowed to wander the deck more often than not while adrift, Guirec makes a point to return her to her pen when the climate declines.
"Toward the starting, I was extremely stressed - there would be enormous waves, and she may bumble, it would search for a brief moment like she may go over the edge, yet she would dependably recover her balance.
"Yet, when there are terrible winds now, I'm significantly more cautious, and she goes inside."
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| Monique gaining the hen's equivalent of sea legs |
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Next destination: Alaska
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| "I won't lie, she can get on my nerves sometimes." |
One thing Guirec may likewise be cautious about is isolate controls. While his and Monique's companionship survived its lone experience so far with traditions authorities, in Canada, he recognizes it may not be so natural next time.
Not that Guirec is fearful about the possibility of their relationship being separated. "I'm not very stressed over that," he says. "I'm a constructive individual."
There are positives to be taken, as well, from having a hen rather than someone else on board. "Contrasted and individuals, she doesn't gripe by any stretch of the imagination.
"She tails me all over the place and doesn't make any issues. I should simply yell "Monique!" and she will come to me, sit on me, give me organization. She is stunning.
"In any case, I won't lie; she can drive me insane some of the time."
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| Monique's diet is grain, corn and the occasional fish. "She'll eat absolutely anything," Guirec says |
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| This catch was out of Monique's range |
So what do Guirec's family and companions settle on of his decision of nautical buddy?
"They thought that it was exceptionally amusing," he says. "They've known I'm not ordinary, in any case."
The following part of the excursion will take the pair through the Arctic and down the Bering Strait towards Nome in Alaska.
What's more, from that point?
"We're not certain yet," Guirec says. "We haven't discussed it yet, yet we will.
"We talk a considerable measure, Monique and I."