Manureva
Manureva some days before the start of the first Route du Rhum. | |
| Other names | Pen Duick IV |
|---|---|
| Designer(s) | André Allègre |
| Builder | La Perrière Lorient, France |
| Launched | 1968 |
| Owner(s) | Éric Tabarly, Alain Colas |
| Fate | Vessel lost at sea 1978 |
| Racing career | |
| Skippers | Éric Tabarly, Alain Colas |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 20.80 m (68.2 ft) (LOA) |
Manureva (originally named Pen Duick IV) was a custom-built racing trimaran famous for being the first oceangoing multihull racing sailboat, opening the path to the supremacy in speed of this kind of boat over monohulls. She won the 1972 Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race, skippered by Alain Colas, and was lost at sea with Colas during the first "Route du Rhum" transatlantic solo race in 1978.