Eric Tabarly, the navigator who won Platiní a vote as best French sportsman
Eric Tabarly, the navigator who won Platiní a vote as best French sportsman
Tabarly the legend of the gala heavy candle
The great Eric Tabarly came to the world in July 1931, in the midst of a family with such a nautical tradition, and especially of sailing. From a very small time his parents put him in the world of navigation, having his first ship at age seven.
At the age of 22, Tabarly joined the French Navy as a volunteer, being sent to the Air Brigade, performing tasks at the Saint Mandrier Air Base, before being transferred to Morocco. A year later he obtained the title of pilot, fighting in the War of Indochina, in which the French Republic participated in those years.
However the passion of the galo was the candle, and the result of his personal effort and dedication in 1958 set in motion the first of the "Pen Duick." His transfer as a pilot to the French air base of Lann Bihoué, very close to Lorient in Britain, favored him in his hobby for the sea. In the same year he was accepted into the Naval School and was appointed Knight Alumno. With his new naval degree, he was boarding in 1960 at the Gala Navy School, the "Joan of Arc." The ship returned after its navigation in June 1961 and Tabarly was promoted to the commander.
In 1962, Tabarly participated in the transatlantic race of Single Haged with his Pen Duick. Decided to win the next edition of 1965, it began the construction in the fall of 1963 of its second ship,..., the Pen Duick II won with a time of 27 days and three hours. This achievement catapulted Tabarly to fame. The Government of France granted him the degree of Knight of the Legion of Honor.
The "Pen Duick III" (Photo owned by Belgian- Navy)
In 1965, he transformed Pen Duick II into a gulet. He achieved a fifth position in the Bermuda Regatta, and competed in Bermuda - Copenhagen Race, having to leave after suffering various serious failures, such as the break in his rudder. At two years he participated in numerous races winning the legendary "Sidney-Hobart Race," already with the Pen Duick III.
In 1968, his new Pen Duick, the fourth of the saga, began a spectacular tribaran, which suffered many damage, as it was reached by Hurricane Brenda in June. The following year, he won the San Francisco-Tokyo Regatta.
Tabarly in 1971 and appointed by the Government of the Republic of France as Chief Inspector of Physical Education and Sports. That same year, he won the Falmouth--Gibraltar and the Middle Sea Race, and in 1972, the Transpac.
Eric Tabarly participated in the 1973 World Tour for the first time and as last in 1994
In 1973, he embarked on the first edition of the Whitbread. Tabarly was promoted to corbeta captain in 1976 in the Gala Navy. In 1980, Tabarly patrolled the "Paul Ricard, achieving with him the English-US transatlantic record.
Tabarly withdrew from active service in July 1985. He was promoted to Capitaine de Fragata, before 1994, and participated in the Whitbread again. In 1997, he won the "Fastnet Race" with the "Aquitaine Innovations." The great Galo navigator, the one who won Michel Platini a vote as the best sportsman in France, died drowned in 1998.
To learn more about this great French navigator:
http: / / www.asso-eric-tabarly.org / Edgar Saló Navarro & Agustín Martín Mallofré - Eric Tabarly (The end of the career work Nautical Faculty of Barcelona)
Eric Tabarly at the Mount Real Yacht Club in Baiona
In July 1984, when I was manager of the Royal Mote and meeting in my office, a crew member of a French ship who just entered our port approached it and said: "We have just arrived with the Pen Duick V to your port,..., in a few minutes Mr. Tabarly will come to talk to you, is it possible?" Obviously I settled at the same time that I was invaded by a nervousness of being able to shake the hand of a living legend of the international candle. Within a few minutes, Eric entered my office with a few friends (it was very serious) and began to speak to me in French,... my studies of baccalaureate at the College of the Marists of Vigo came from pearls to understand me properly with the French navigator. The reason for his scale was that he visited the Club as a kind of inspector of the Le Figaró newspaper, to see if it was possible that the Le Figaró Regata could come to Baiona in 1985,... I convinced him, he ended up laughing and everything, he signed in the Book of Honor of Mount Real and in September we were visited by Jean Malleret (director of the newspaper), Michael Malinoswky (another legend),..., and Regata Le Figaró entered Baiona in August 1985. The best part of this meeting was that the great Rafael Alonso made the translator with the French,... but he translated us as he thought,..., until we realized,..., Rafa tell him that we need two million pesetas to cover the costs of what he asked us to do,..., and Rafa told Malleret - I'm told that two million, but I think for one it's fixed. An unforgettable anecdote for which he was an excellent navigator with his 3 / 4 ton - Sartañ- and an out-of-series as a waterdresser. Manuel Pedro Seoane, Digital Nautical Editor
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