Tacking Outrigger - Groupe J.P. Turco

Some friendly anonimous reader of this blog has shed some light into the darkness surrounding the boat shown in the last post:

Comment: "The boat was an entry in the 1990 Route Du Rhum. The skipper was Henri Cormier and she was called Groupe J.P. Turco. She did not finish the race."

I made some research on the net, based on this information. But there was not much more to find, until now... On the official Route du Rhum website the skipper Henri Cormier and his boat are strangely not to be found. Not a single aditional image or reference to be found!

But there was some interesting piece of information which I did find: As informed the boat did not finish the race. But it did not break apart, nor capsize in mid Atlantic. It had an incident with a spectator boat at the start, and had to abandon the race! What a sad end (or start)! It would have been immensely interesting to see how it would have performed.

Check: http://www.ac-guadeloupe.fr/circonscriptions/bouillante/docindex7/routedurhum/dossier%20route%20du%20Rhum.pdf