Jean-Yves Terlain (born November 12, 1944 in

Angers Angers (, , ) is a city in western France, about southwest of Paris. It is the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department and was the capital of the province of Anjou until the French Revolution. The inhabitants of both the city and the pr ...

), is a French navigator and architect. He is the uncle of the famous sailing brothers Bruno and Loïck Peyron. He studied naval architecture at the Sorbonne and was the youngest sailor to finish the 1968 OSTAR, sailing singlehanded from Plymouth, England to

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. He competed in the first

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in 1989-1990 where he had to retire onboard UAP having lost the mast in the

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. The boat was marked by it unique ahead of it time enclosed cockpit.

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