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unusual facts about Éric Tabarly



Alain Thébault

With Éric Tabarly, he participated in the conception of a multihull on hydrofoils, named l'Hydroptère, with a team of engineers, many of them from the aeronautics industry.


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Jacques Sternberg

An anarchist at heart, he rejected organized regatta and racing - Not unlike Bernard Moitessier, the famous ocean vagabond - and wrote a biting satire of yachtsmen, sponsors and yacht clubs, in his erotic-nautical novel Le navigateur published at the peak of Eric Tabarly's success.