VENDREDI 13 yacht

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VENDREDI 13 yacht

Post by aukepalmhof » Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:41 pm

Built as a three-mast yacht in 1972 after plans made by Dick Carter by Chantier. Tecimar a Saint Nazaire for the French yachtsman Jean Yves Terlain.
Displacement 35 ton, with a length of 39 metre.
Built in sandwich fibreglass/polyurethane foam.
Original she was schooner rigged with staysails.
Delivered under the name VENDREDI 13 (Friday 13)

She was special designed for the Single-Handed Transatlantic Race (OSTAR 1972) from Plymouth, U.K. to Newport, USA.
Very large for her time, and it was said she could not be operated by one man.
While participating in the race Terlain encountered problems which deprived him of the first place.
He arrived as second after the PEN DUICK IV skippered by Alain Colas, with a passage time of 21 days, 05 hours and 14 minutes.

After the race the VENDREDI 13 was rebuilt at La Rochelle in a charter yacht for the West Indies.
Terlain obtained a charter for the yacht with Club Med and she was based at Sainte-Anne, Martinique.
Entrusted to the management of Yvon Fauconnier who recruited a crew of sailors and stewards to assist his wife Dany. Their daughter Karine Fauconnier, who in turn became a famous navigator, participated in the early cruises.
Many famous French people took part in this luxury cruises with the VENDREDI 13 to the Grenadines.

1976 Yvon Fauconnier participated with the yacht in the Transatlantic Race, but when a deep depression passed he got wounded on his face and had to abandon the race.

After this race she was again used in the charter market between the Caribbean and the USA, early 1990 there were serious structural problems, which proved to be irreparable.

A sister-ship the FRIDAY STAR was then built after the plans of the VENDREDI 13.

VENDREDI 13 was then offered to a museum in the former submarine base in Bordeaux, she was not very well looked after and she deteriorated.
When the museum closed the hull was complete open to the weather, so far I can find out she is still there ashore alongside the parking lot of the submarine base in a bad shape. Her masts removed.

Equatorial Guinea 1972 250+50 pst. sgms?, scott?
Senegal 1999 250F sg?, scott?

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendredi_13_(bateau)
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