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Those amazing trimarans

13 September 2004
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Those amazing trimarans

The Rexona Story

Some time ago I published some extraordinary photos of the Rexona trimaran towing a water skiier. I was recently reminded of these pictures when I came across some bulletin board chat articles about the pictures disputing the validity and talking about photoshop etc. This caused me to find the original source of the article and get the names of those involved.

The photographs were taken by Yvan Zedda of the BlueGreen photo agency and published in The Daily Sail. Subscription is required for this site, although I think you can get a free trial. The article can be found here.

Excerpt from the article ...

Yvan Bourgnon and his elder brother Laurent are not known for their restraint when it comes to sailing 60ft trimarans. Bourgnon the elder, was the gentleman who established the outright 24 hour record of 540 miles, the last record to be set before the age of the maxi-cats and all the most amazing because he did it singlehanded.

Yvan, Laurent's young brother then took over this boat and in the 2000 Quebec-St Malo race was a fraction of a mile from reclaiming the 24 hour with the same boat (at the time the record was 625 miles and held by Grant Dalton's Club Med).

Despite being somewhat long in the tooth Yvan Bourgnon has got the boat, now rechristened Rexona Men, entered in the Route du Rhum. In this is holds a rather impressive track record, winning the race in both 1994 and then again in 1998.

The brave man being towed along at high speed by this raging trimaran is World Champion waterskier, Patrice Martin.

More Pics

I have collected a bunch of photographs from The Daily Sail and include them in a gallery that you can find here.

Apologies if I have breached any copyrights with this - if so I will gladly remove the offending pics.


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