Marie Tabarly (born 1 January 1984) is a French professional yacht sailor based in

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, France, in

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. She is the daughter of

Éric Tabarly Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly (24 July 1931 – 13 June 1998) was a French naval officer and yachtsman. He developed a passion for offshore racing very early on and won several ocean races such as the Ostar in 1964 and 1976, ending English domination ...

, who died while sailing in the Irish Sea in 1998. Marie originally had a career as an equine behaviourist but put it on hold after her horse got injured and decided to focus on sailing instead. She has a long history of sailing many different yachts from a young age, such as

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, for which she was named as the boat's godmother at its christening; the French

trimaran A trimaran (or double-outrigger) is a multihull boat that comprises a main hull and two smaller outrigger hulls (or "floats") which are attached to the main hull with lateral beams. Most modern trimarans are sailing yachts designed for recrea ...

which has since broken many records, such as with

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 ...

. She primarily sails Pen Duick VI, a 73 ft

ketch A ketch is a two- masted sailboat whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast), and whose mizzen mast is stepped forward of the rudder post. The mizzen mast stepped forward of the rudder post is what distinguishes the ketch f ...

built for Eric Tabarly’s

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. In 2018, she embarked on a four-year round the world trip on Pen Duick VI through her project, the Elemen'Terre Project. This project was a sailing journey around the world that became a documentary series focused on reconnecting humans with nature through sailing, arts, and outdoor sports. Throughout the journey, many ambassadors joined, such as

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, the writer

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, the sailor

Franck Cammas Franck Cammas (born 22 December 1972 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French yachtsman. He has lived in Brittany since his victory in the Challenge Espoir Crédit Agricole in 1994. After completing a two-year maths course for the ‘Grandes écoles’, ...

and the freediver Aurore Asso. She will race Pen Duick VI in the Ocean Globe Race (OGR) in 2023. Prior to the OGR, she raced alongside Louis Duc in the

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Accomplishments

Marie Tabarly is five time winner of the 15M JI Championship: in 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabarly, Marie 1984 births Living people French female sailors (sport) 21st-century French sportswomen