Misplaced Pages

Alain Colas

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
French sailor (1943–1978)
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (April 2013) Click for important translation instructions.
  • View a machine-translated version of the French article.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Alain Colas}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.
Alain Colas
Manureva, a few days before the start of the first Route du Rhum
Born(1943-09-16)16 September 1943
Clamecy, Nièvre
Disappearedat sea
StatusMissing for 46 years, 1 month and 16 days
NationalityFrench

Alain Colas (16 September 1943 – 16 November 1978) was a French sailor, the first to complete a solitary round-the-world race in a multihull. He met Éric Tabarly in Sydney in 1967, and bought Pen Duick IV from him in 1970, and won the "Transat" in 1972. The same year, he started the construction of a 72m (236 feet) 4-masted monohull for the 1976 "Transat".

He broke his right ankle, underwent 22 surgeries, and got back on his feet for the solitary transatlantic race. Éric Tabarly won, and Alain Colas arrived 2nd, but was classed 5th. On 5 November 1978, he took part in his last race, the first Route du Rhum. On 16 November 1978, as he passed the Azores, he sent his last radio message, saying that everything was alright and sailing well. Neither his boat Manureva nor his body were ever found.

See also

References

  1. ^ Colas, Alain (1977). Cap Horn pour un homme seul. : Flammarion. ISBN 978-2080650092.
  2. Colas, Alain (1977). Cap Horn pour un homme seul. ISBN 9782080650092. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  3. Colas, Alain (2003). Un tour du monde pour une victoire (Nouv. éd. ed.). Paris: Arthaud. ISBN 978-2700395969.
  4. "Alain Colas, Rêves d'Océan". France 3 Bourgogne. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  5. Johnson, William Oscar (8 January 1979). "A Legend Lost At Sea". CNN. Archived from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved 10 May 2013.


France Stub icon 2

This biographical article related to sailing in France is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: