Anyone fancy buying a piece of junk rig history? Original article here.

Altenatively, Vendredi 13 is also up for grabs, it seems - should make an interesting junk rig conversion project!

(Approximate) translation of the article:

While the 10th Route du Rhum has just started, several boats are waiting to make a fresh start on the site of the submarine base in Bordeaux. The City is, in fact, about to sell twenty boats that were part of the former International Academy of local craft.

Sailboats

There are the "Oxbird", a steam boat, a rowing boat and catamarans. But it is especially sailboats that are of interest, specifically the two main pieces of this collection. The "Summer" first of all, which was built in 1966 in Britain. It belonged to George Herbert "Blondie" Hasler. The man is well known in Bordeaux for leading Operation Frankton. In December 1942, the sailors of the British Royal Marines had ascended the estuary by canoe at night to attack German ships. The "Summer", which sank to the bottom of a pond at the Bordeaux site is today really in need of restoration. This is also the case of "Vendredi 13th", designed by Jean-Yves Terlain for the English Transat 1972.

This yacht is 39 meters in a sad state. This is a black hull stored in a parking lot, which seems not to have had too much luck, despite his Christian name.