Il s’est appelé Fleury Michon IV en 1981, Imprévisible puis Le Monde de la mer en 1982. En 2008, il a été sauvé in extremis d’une mort à Venise par Alain Borsotti, qui l’a magnifiquement restauré et nommé Fine Mouche. C’est désormais sous le nom de Dona Marina que ce très beau plan Newick navigue.

located in the Coromandel region of New Zealand. He was a marine engineer and spent around 10 years working on it; the project is almost complete – all that remains is to assemble it. Unfortunately, my brother and I don’t have the time to finish it and need the space.

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Fleet is part of the ‘Echo 36’ family, which has seen several versions in different sizes, made from different materials, and featuring different float and central hull designs.
Fleet is an original 36-foot Echo built from wood-epoxy with ‘half-moon’ floats and foils.

It is fitted with a large-section wing mast, also constructed from wood-epoxy (13.5 m?).
Only four boats have been built worldwide to these plans, three in New Zealand and one in the Philippines. Fleet is therefore the only one of its kind in Europe.

Built in 1983, this inverted-Y hydrofoil trimaran has enjoyed great success in ocean racing under the command of numerous skippers. Today, PIR² competes actively in the Multi 50 class. Within this class, it is the only hydrofoil boat, built from aluminium and designed to be dismantled! It is surely also one of the most active ‘Golden Oldies Multihulls’. There is a sister ship to PIR², known as Ker Cadelac, which is based in the USA. On 5 June 2010, during the return leg of the Vendée–Saint Petersburg race, PIR² lost its mast.

Originally based on the Three Cheers, the boat strikes a superb balance between speed and comfort. It has spent almost its entire career in France.

During the gruelling Transat 76, Mike Birch and his Val 31, The Third Turtle, caused a real sensation by finishing just 24 hours behind Pen Duick VI. The Val 31 was half the length of Eric Tabarly’s boat! But Mike also finished almost two days ahead of Alain Colas’s giant Club Méditerranée. A boat eight times larger, with 22 times the sail area, 178 times heavier and 70 times more expensive than a VAL! “Small is beautiful” – the Newick legend was on the move. Indeed, in 1976, three Val 31s took part in the Ostar.

The boat was called Cat Marine, named after the shipyard where it was built. The main hull had been designed for a catamaran. Alain Veyron built this boat to compete in the 1980 Transat Anglaise solo race, which saw Moxie win the overall class. After a few days of racing, following a failure of the autopilot, the skipper decided to turn back. The boat was very unstable downwind, which led Alain Veyron to resume the race, sailing close-hauled with the helm locked. Despite this, he finished first in his multihull category!