Marie Tabarly (born 1 January 1984) is a French professional yacht sailor based in

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, France in

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. She is the daughter of

Éric Tabarly Éric Marcel Guy Tabarly was a French Navy officer and yachtsman, born 24 July 1931 in Nantes and died 13 June 1998 of drowning in the Irish Sea. He developed a passion for offshore racing very early on and won several ocean races such as the Osta ...

, who died while sailing in the Irish Sea in 1998. Marie originally had a career as an equine behaviourist but put it on hold after her horse got injured and decided to focus on sailing instead. She has a long history sailing many different yachts from a young age, such as Geronimo, the French trimaran which has broken many records, such as with

Olivier de Kersauson Olivier de Kersauson de Pennendreff (born 20 July 1944) is a French sailor and sailing champion. Kersauson was the seventh child in a family of eight. While he was the only Kersauson not to have been born in Brittany, he was born on 20 July 1944 ...

, for which she was named the godmother at its christening. She primarily sails Pen Duick VI, a 73ft

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built for Eric Tabarly’s 1973–1974 Whitbread Round the World Race. In 2018, she embarked on a four-year round the world trip on Pen Duick VI, through her project, th
Elemen'Terre Project.
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, the writer Sylvain Tesson, the sailor

Franck Cammas Franck Cammas (born 22 December 1972 in Aix-en-Provence) is a French yachtsman. He has lived in Brittany since his victory in the Challenge Espoir Crédit Agricole in 1994. After completing a two-year maths course for the ‘Grandes écoles’, ...

and the freediver Aurore Asso. She will race Pen Duick VI in the Ocean Globe Race (OGR) in 2023. Prior to the OGR, she will race alongside Louis Duc in the

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Accomplishments

5 X winner of the 15M JI Championship 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tabarly, Marie 1984 births Living people French female sailors (sport)