3889 x 2592 px | 32,9 x 21,9 cm | 13 x 8,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
20 juillet 2008
Lieu:
Brittany, France
Informations supplémentaires:
Picture : only for editorial. The first Pen Duick (which bears no number) is a sailboat made to the design of a renowned Scottish architect William Fife III in 1898 under the name Yum. Acquired by Guy Tabarly, in 1938, is on board that his son Eric Tabarly learned to sail. Her hull has rotted in the mud flats after the Second World War, making it dangerous to navigation. Unable to pay for the work, his father sells. As he could not find a buyer, Eric convinces his father to give him, because he fell in love from day one. A few years later, when Eric can handle his boat, he finds that the hull of his boat is rotten. Unable to finance work by a project, Eric decides to save his boat with his own hands: he uses the old shell as a male mold and, by applying successive layers of fabric and polyester resin, he re a new hull. Polyester construction was in its infancy, there was never built a sailboat as large and heavy. Hull was the biggest of its kind at that time. While Eric was at the Naval Academy in Brest, he trained to navigate to participate in regattas in the south of England. .. The boat has undergone a renovation to the old sites in Raymond Labbé in 1983 in Saint-Malo, and celebrated its centenary in May 1998. Tabarly has always opposed the inclusion of "his" boat under the "historic". Is on board, as the night of 12 to 13 June 1998, Eric Tabarly disappears at sea during a voyage to Ireland. Pen Duick now owned by Mary and Jacqueline Tabarly who have entrusted its maintenance and management of the association Tabarly. He participated in the racing classic yachts in the Atlantic and gatherings of Pen Duick. It is led by a professional sailor and emembarque each season a crew of sailors volunteer training.
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