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Manureva
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Manureva (originally named Pen Duick IV) was a custom-built racing trimaran famous for being the first oceangoing multihull racing sailboat, opening the path to the supremacy in speed of this kind of boat over monohulls.[1] She won the 1972 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, skippered by Alain Colas, and was lost at sea with Colas during the first "Route du Rhum" transatlantic solo race in 1978.[2]
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![]() Manureva some days before the start of the first Route du Rhum. | |
Other names | Pen Duick IV |
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Designer(s) | André Allègre |
Builder | La Perrière Lorient, France |
Launched | 1968 |
Owner(s) | Éric Tabarly, Alain Colas |
Fate | Vessel lost at sea 1978 |
Racing career | |
Skippers | Éric Tabarly, Alain Colas |
Specifications | |
Length | 20.80 m (68.2 ft) (LOA) |
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