Tabarly, Eric Marcel Guy

▪ 1999

      French yachtsman who became a national hero when he won the 1964 Observer Single-Handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR) in record time and, in a series of sailboats named Pen Duick, went on to win numerous other solo races, including the 1976 OSTAR; he drowned after falling from the original Pen Duick (b. July 24, 1931, Nantes, France—d. June 12, 1998, off the coast of Wales).

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