(ex ) must be one of the most usable classics we’ve ever featured at this size. She was built in 1964 by Robertson & Sons to a David Boyd design and is, according to her broker, “living proof of the 12-M as the most sustainable in the 1964 AC in Newport RI (that accolade fell to the similar yacht ), then cruised and raced successfully for many years after. next claim to fame was as one of the two yachts that founded the Nioulargue, today the biggest classic yacht regatta in the world, Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez. Her famous September 1981 match against American Dick Jayson’s Swan 44 on a course from Saint-Tropez, around La Nioulargue shoal to a finish off Patrice de Colmont’s Club 55 on Pampelone Beach, is the stuff of legend – still celebrated annually by Challenge Day, firstly at La Nioulargue regatta, now at the Voiles.
