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Originally Posted by Coolhand
typically French; did it ever win anything?
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It was topclass, I think 3 masts, but to big to sail for a man singlehanded. Some famous French skippers used it, concurents of Eric Tabarly. I think Alain Colas, not sure. They even went bigger with the Club Med, also for single handed racing, but the yacht was over 50 meters...
One of them was bought by Bernard Tapie (at that time owner of Adidas and football club Marseille) and renamed Phocea (the ancient Greeck name of Marseille).