Showing posts with label French yacht design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French yacht design. Show all posts
Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Joshua

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Bernard Moitessier will always be remembered as the strange Frenchman who might have beaten Robin Knox-Johnston to be the first man to sail ...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Muscadet - the French "peoples' boat"

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Philipe Harlé's Muscadet is a French legend. In the early 1960s the Muscadet helped “democratise” the sport of sailing, making ownership...
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Monday, 12 September 2011

Golif - the first all-plastic sailing yacht?

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The 23ft Golif was built from 1962 by the Jouët works at Sartrouville. Jouët claim she was the first production small offshore cruiser to b...
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Saturday, 3 September 2011

"A" ~ the spectacular mega yacht designed by Philippe Starck

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The French designer, Philippe Starck is best known for his furniture and kitchen gadget designs, including his iconic lemon juicer. He is n...
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Saturday, 27 August 2011

The Jouet "Cap-Horn", designed by Jean Jacques Herbulot

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When stories are told about the early days of short and single-handed long distance ocean racing, the names of Chichester, Hasler and the Fr...
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Thursday, 25 August 2011

Love-Love, by Julien Berthier

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French artist Julien Berthier created this boat. According to him, "Love love is the permanent and mobile image of a wrecked ship th...
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Saturday, 13 August 2011

Sylphe – by André Mauric - Sunk before Launching!

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André Mauric was the most prolific and best known of France's 20th century yacht designers. His career started in the 1920s with radica...
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Saturday, 6 August 2011

Jean Marie Finot's "Ecume De Mer"

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In 1967 Jean-Marie Finot, who had recently married, decided to give up the idea of becoming a yacht designer so that he could concentrate on...
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