capitaine au long cours

Monsieur le Président, j'ai écouté avec beaucoup d'intérêt la brillante métaphore navale du commissaire, qui peut désormais s'enorgueillir d'être un capitaine au long cours, si l'on peut dire.
Mr President, I listened with great interest to the long and sustained shipping metaphor of the Commissioner, who can now lay claim to be a master mariner of sorts.
A Mesquer, à deux pas des plages et du port de Kercabellec, La Cap-Hornière est une chambre d'hôtes de charme, dans une maison en pierres de 1907 construite par un Cap-Hornier, capitaine au long cours.
In Mesquer, close to the beaches and the harbor Kercabellec, The Cap-Hornière is a charming guest house in a 1907 stone house built by a Cape Hornier, master mariner.
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