Photo assignment for the Fédération Française de Voile.
Posts tagged Var
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Apr 15
Apr 15
French Sailing Team preparing the ISAF Sailing World Cup
Hyères, France 43º04’40″N 6º10'01″E
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Oct 10
Oct 10
Elena
Saint Tropez, France 43º13’70″N 6º42’42″E
Onboard the schooner Elena during “Les voiles de saint Tropez”, France.‘Build me a schooner that can win’. Elena is a replica of the Herreshoff schooner designed in 1910, who won the Trans-Atlantic Race in 1928. Newly built in 2009 at the Factorial Naval
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Oct 10
Oct 10
Altair
Saint Tropez, France 43º16’42″N 6º38’48″E
Onboard Altair during “Les voiles de Saint Tropez”, France.
Commissioned in 1929 by Captain Guy H MacCaw whose brief to William Fife was simply: ‘build a sound, safe cruiser, safe to go to the south seas islands in with no anxiety’. Fife was then 73 years. 
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Sep 10
Sep 10
Velsheda
Saint Tropez, France 43º16’54″N 6º42’43″E
Onboard Velsheda during “Les Voiles de Saint Tropez”, France. Designed by Charles Nicholson and built by Camper & Nicholson in 1933 for Mr W.L. Stephenson, Owner of Woolworth chain of shops, she was built in 1933 at Gosport.
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Sep 10
Sep 10
Shamrock V
Saint Tropez, France 43º17’36″N 6º38’46″E
Shamrock V (JK3) during “Les Voiles de Saint Tropez”, France.
Shamrock V was built in 1930 for Sir Thomas Lipton’s fifth and last America’s Cup challenge. Designed by Nicholson, she was the first British yacht to be built to the new J Class Rule and is the only remaining J to have been built in wood.
