CÔTE D'OR II yacht

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CÔTE D'OR II yacht

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue May 05, 2015 8:38 pm

The catamaran is the CÔTE D’OR II which was originally built as the catamaran PAUL RICHARD in 1979, designed by Alain de Bergh.
Tonnage 17 tons, dim. 16.50 x 17m.
03 May 1979 launched as the PAUL RICHARD in Cherbourg, France.
26 May 1979 under skipper Eric Tabarly in the Transatlantic Race from Lorient to Bermuda and return to Lorient ended in the 2nd place.
07 June 1980 under skipper Marc Pajot in the transatlantic race but was disqualified.
22 July till August 1980 made the record for the Atlantic crossing in 10 days 5h 14m 20sec.
19 October 1980 La Baule-Dakar race under skipper Patrick Tabarly ended in 3rd place.
07 – 12 November 1982 Route de Rhum race in which she abandon the race.
22 May 1983 Lorient-Bermuda-Lorient Transatlantic race under skipper Eric Tabarly she abandon the race.
June 1984 sole transatlantic OSTAR race from Plymouth to Newport where she ended in the 4th place.
When the trimaran CÔTE D’OR II was built due to lack of funds by Eric Tabarly the aluminium centre-body of the PAUL RICHARD was used at the ACX site in Brest.
The yacht was designed by Xavier Joubert, and built at the shipyard Lorient Perriére.
September 1986 launched as the CÔTE D’OR II.
Dim. 22.85 length, beam ?, draught 0.6/3m.
Sail area 309 m² upwind, 755 m² downwind.
Crew 1 – 12.
November 1986 in the Route de Rhum race she broke her port float and she has to abandon the race. She was towed to port by the yacht PEN DUICK VI.
April 1987 after repairs she returns to the water again and under skipper Patric Tabarly she won the Grand Prize of Brest.
June 1987 she gets a new mast and a set of sails where after she took part in 5th race of Europe co-skippered by the brothers Tabarly.
October 1987 in the La Baule to Dakar race on the eight day of the race the CÔTE D’OR with a 20 kn. wind met a cross sea when Eric Taberly was on the helm and under full sail, the port float dives and the boat rotates and capsized, a distress signal was given and after about 10 hours the crew was picked up from the capsized hull by a Portuguese navy vessel.
The capsized hull was found by a Portuguese fisherman and towed to Funchal, were most of the crews belongings and equipment were stolen. At the port she was returned to her owners.
Repair was too expensive and the CÔTE D’Or was put on the sale list for 2 million Francs.
At least in 2002 the owner and Patrick Tabarly sailed her to Lorient, were she was taken out of the water at La Citée de la Voile.
Bertrant Quentin was looking for a yacht for Route du Rhum 2010 and he became interested in de CÔTE D’OR, he invested 60,000 (other source 300,000) Euro and with the help of two other persons an agreement with the Portuguese owner was reached.
31 January 2010 she was put again in the water, and sailed to the starting point for the Route du Rhum Race under skipper Quentin Bertrant,
During day two of this race the skipper got a heart attack and had to be airlifted from board and the CÔTE D’OR abandon the race.
2015 Still around under Portuguese flag.

Niger 1998 MSsg?, scott?
Source: Internet.
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