Musée Mer Marine
Model-rigged giant racing schooner among ten thousand maritime objects across three floors on the old docks.
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This guide to the Musee Mer Marine in Bordeaux follows the giant racing schooner Vendredi Treize, built for a crew of fourteen but sailed solo across the Atlantic in 1972 by Jean-Yves Terlain, financed by film director Claude Lelouch. It traces her triumphant racing summers, her close second-place finish behind Alain Colas, and the years afterward when the boat changed hands and names and drifted through charter work in the Caribbean. Look closely at the model's three oversized masts, built for a crew far larger than one.
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