Steve Fossett used two replicas of Pierre 1er for the 1995 film Waterworld, featuring Kevin Costner navigating a world overwhelmed by water following melting of the polar icecaps.
There are many iconic raceboats, but few capture the feeling of an era as much as the 60ft trimaran in which Florence Arthaud won the 1990 Route du Rhum. She beat Philippe Poupon, winner of the previous edition, by eight hours to become the first woman to win a major offshore race, inspiring a new generation of young women to follow in her footsteps.
Arthaud had already broken the west to east transatlantic record earlier that year, taking a whopping 20% off Bruno Peyron’s existing time. She also became the first sailor to be awarded the title 'Champion des Champions français de L’Équipe'. It was a remarkable turnaround for someone who, only four years before her first Route du Rhum, had been gravely injured in a car
