Built by her architect-skipper with the aim of winning the 1988 Transat Anglaise in Class 5, she was forced to retire after her float broke. Sold in 1990, she was used for coastal cruising in Brittany. In 1998, it was refurbished to compete in the 2000 Transat Anglaise, where it led for 13 days before its forestay broke. It then sailed on cruises between the Azores and the Mediterranean. During Storm Klaus, the boat, which had been beached at Port-Leucate, was struck by a monohull that had fallen from its cradle: the mast was broken, the rudder stock was bent, and the structure was severely damaged...
Purchased as a wreck thanks to the intervention of the Golden Oldies Multihull association, Gilles Abeloos and the Canet en Roussillon Maritime College carried out the initial repairs. In 2012, a team from Brittany decided to buy the boat and sail it around Spain. Having set off from Canet in April, watertightness issues forced them to make a technical stop: the boat was a real sieve! Upon arriving in Foleux, the team built a heated shelter, completely dismantled the boat, re-laminated the floats and the central hull, and carried out numerous improvements: a true rebirth