Mike Birch- Canadian navigator

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Mike Birch is a Canadian navigator. He was born on November 1, 1931 in Vancouver, Canada. Mike Birch entered the world of competitive sailing late, after being a cowboy, a little adventurer, having embarked on freighters and made many escorts. He enters into competition late, but with a crash. It is first his second place in the Ostar 1976 with the smallest trimaran of the fleet, Third Turtle, 31 feet! It is then his anthology victory in the very first Route du Rhum. On board his trimaran Olympus, he caps Michel Malinowski 98 seconds, in front of the finish line. This very spectacular victory will mark the end of the victories in monohulls and the supremacy of the multi, faster boats but also often less reliable, especially at that time (another famous trimaran took the start of this same race and never arrived, Manureva, ex-Pen Duick IV of Tabarly, with Alain Colas at the helm). Since then, this fan of multihulls, big or small - he will be at the helm of the maxi catamaran Formula Tag in the 1980s -, has participated in all major offshore races, and very often shines: English Transat, Route du Rhum, Twostar , Race of Europe. He will be crowned twice world champion Fico. Even today, more than 70 years old, the Canadian skipper (married to a Frenchwoman) remains an indefatigable passionate, always present at the beginning of the big transatlantic ones. Faithful to Quebec-St Malo since its creation, it will participate in its sixth edition aboard a trimaran of 50 feet on which it has sailed a lot, Nootka. Рrize list: Six participations in the English transatlantic race, 2nd in 1992 and 1976. Five participations in Quebec-St Malo. Fico World Champion 1991 and 1992. Winner Lorient-St Barth-Lorient 1989 on Fujicolor. Winner of Monaco New York in 1985 on Formula Tag.
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