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Formule Tag (yacht)
''Daedalus'' is a maxi-catamaran, that participated in numerous open-ocean races under various owners and names. History Originally named ''Formule Tag'', this maxi-catamaran was built by Canadair in Québec, Canada in 1983, under the supervision of Canadians, Canadian skipper Mike Birch and United Kingdom, British designer Nigel Irens. The yacht was built to compete in the inaugural Transat Québec-Saint-Malo—a trans-Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic sailing race celebrating Jacques Cartier's 1534 voyage from Saint-Malo, France, to present day Québec City. It was the largest sailing catamaran of its time, with a length of 85 feet, and participated in a number of races. In 1984 Birch and crew sailed her to a new record for a Day's run, sailing 512 nautical miles in 24 hours. In 1993, ''Formule Tag'' was purchased by Robin Knox-Johnston and future two-time America's Cup winner Peter Blake (sailor), Peter Blake. The two skippers renamed her ''ENZA New Zealand'' (ENZA an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Irens
Nigel Irens Royal Designers for Industry, RDI is a yacht designer. He is the designer of the MV Brigitte Bardot, ''Adventure'' which is a 35m trimaran motor yacht which completed a circumnavigation in 1998. He also designed the which is a 23 m sailing trimaran used by Ellen MacArthur to break the world record for solo circumnavigation in 2005. In addition to performance yachts, his design portfolio includes cruising designs such as Roxane (sailing boat), Roxane,website for Irens' ''Roxane-Romilly'' family ''www.roxane-romilly.co.uk/'', accessed 9 November 2019 and other sailing designs of traditional appearance such as the ''Westernman'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Québec City
Quebec City is the capital city of the Canadian province of Quebec. As of July 2021, the city had a population of 549,459, and the Census Metropolitan Area (including surrounding communities) had a population of 839,311. It is the twelfth -largest city and the seventh- largest metropolitan area in Canada. It is also the second-largest city in the province, after Montreal. It has a humid continental climate with warm summers coupled with cold and snowy winters. Explorer Samuel de Champlain founded a French settlement here in 1608, and adopted the Algonquin name. Quebec City is one of the List of North American cities by year of foundation, oldest European settlements in North America. The ramparts surrounding Old Quebec () are the only fortified city walls remaining in the Americas north of Mexico. This area was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Québec". Name and usage Common English-language usage distinguishes the city fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivier De Kersauson
Olivier de Kersauson de Pennendreff (born 20 July 1944) is a French sailor and sailing champion. Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20 July 1944 and brought up near Morlaix in a “provincial Catholic aristocracy with compulsory mass” as he calls it. Very early on, Olivier de Kersauson was to break away from his family. Without being inattentive, he was a pupil who did not settle in well to school life with the priests at boarding school. He passed through eleven schools altogether. After his final school exams and getting up to a lot of things, always on the coast, he began studying economics. At the age of twenty-two, he met Eric Tabarly in Saint Malo. Shortly after, Eric invited him to do his military service on board. This opportunity stretched into eight years during which he was Tabarly’s mate. In 1973-74, he was a crewmember on the yacht Pen Duick VI in the Whitbread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport Elec
Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be Open (sport), open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
