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From proa_file message #1917:
hi everybody,
Here we have the picture i have promised about a very strange monoxil proa. That
boat is atlantic on one tack and pacific on the other. She wins all the races in
mediterranea during twoo years, especially because of a very high speed in low
wind and no tactics problems. She was destroied in the 1982 Rhum by an accident
with a buoy at high speed, she breaks the akas on the obstacle. The sponsor was
the company of the skipper himself.
From proa_file message #1965:
Here we have more informations about JP Turcot proa or outrigger canoe
Builded and designed by the Cormier's brothers and launched in 1986,
size 17.9X13metres weight 4.4T/5T sail area 170sqm, spi 260sqm,
sponsor the company where the brothers work.
A lot of race winned in mediterranea and in the Rhum 1990 a lot of
misfortune, first the skipper break is leg a few days before the
start, and start with a plaster! Second the boat hit a spectators
boat and must return to Saint Malo to repair a U bolt! third she
strike a signaling buoy and break the akas and was abandonned at sea.
Nobody copy the boat in France, perhaps too strange, perhaps in
france nothing serious can be happened in mediterranea, and of course
in that race everybody was traumatised by the Delage collapsus on the
start line and sure a terrible misfortune.
Vincent Besin
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rudder linkage with governor
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