Word: vendredi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Pen Duick had been one of the pre-race favorites, its progress during the crossing was largely unnoticed. For one thing, Colas's radio was not always working; for another, most fans followed rapturous reports on Vendredi 13, a massive, three-masted schooner built specially for the event by American Designer Dick Carter, bankrolled by French Film Director Claude (A Man and a Woman) Lelouch, and sailed by Parisian Swinger Jean-Yves Terlain. By all accounts, Vendredi was well ahead and less than a day from Newport when Lelouch chartered a plane to add some footage...
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