The trimaran depict on this stamp is the SPORT-ELEC.
She was built in 1986 by the yard of CDK Technology at Port la Fore the floats by ACX at Brest, France.
The floats were altered in 1993 by CDK Technology.
Launched as the CHARAL
Displacement 14 ton. Dim. 27.30 x 16.35 m.
Sail area 340 m²
Crew 6.
Designed by Marc van Peteghem and Vincent Lauriot-Prevot.
She was later renamed in LYONNAISE DES EAUX-DUMEZ before in 1997 she was renamed SPORT-ELEC.
And under this name she was a participant in the Trophy Jules Verne a non-stop circumnavigation around the world.
Under skipper Olivier de Kersauson and a crew of 6 she chopped off more than three days of the former record set three years before by Sir Peter Blake and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston on board the ENZA NEW ZEALAND.
SPORT-ELEC made the passage in 71 days, 14 hours, 22 minutes and 8 seconds.
Arrival Brest on 19 May 1997.
De SPORT-ELEC did have nice sailing weather which allowed him to navigate a course that was 1,500 miles shorter than ENZA NEW ZEALAND 26,413 miles. ENZA average speed was 14.7 knots while the SPORT-ELEC average speed was 14.6 knots in this circumnavigation.
After her return was she used by Kersauson as a training boat one web-site gives that she then carried the name JULES VERNE but I can not find a confirmation that she has sailed under that name.
In 2003 was she taken over by Francis Joyon and renamed IDEC, she was slightly modified to make her suitable for solo sailing.
In 2004 became she the first ship under skipper Joyon to make a solo circumnavigation around the world in 72 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes and 22 seconds.
2005 The IDEC with skipper Joyon set sail from New York for a solo voyage across the Atlantic, he made the passage in the record time of 6 days, 4 hours, 1 minute and 37 seconds.
The day after his record passage on 7 July 2005 when he had passed the line at Lizard, and on his homeward voyage under reduced canvas, he fell in a deep sleep, woken up just after midnight by a loud bang and found that the IDEC sat between two rocks at the Pointe de Penmarch, he was rescued but his yacht was a total loss.
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Source: The yacht report July 1 1987, Sail Online and various other web-sites.
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