Alain Colas
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Alain Colas
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Alain Colas was a French sailor, the first to complete a solitary round-the-world race in a multihull. He met Éric Tabarly in Sydney in 1967, and bought Pen Duick IV from him in 1970, and won the "Transat" in 1972. The same year, he started the construction of a 72m 4-masted monohull for the 1976 "Transat". He broke his right ankle, underwent 22 surgeries, and got back on his feet for the solitary transatlantic race. Éric Tabarly won, and Alain Colas arrived 2nd, but was classed 5th. On 5 Novemb
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French sailor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colas
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2013-04-24T09:55:15Z
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2024-09-07T21:15:09Z
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