Sail Number: 953
Type: class III RORC
LOA: 37’9″ / 10.40m LOD: 37’9″ / 10.40m – LWL: 24’3″ / 7.35m Beam: 9’2″ / 2.50m – Draft: 5’3″ / 1.55m – Displacement: 5.0 tons – Ballast: 1.50 tons – Yard Number: – Hull material: Wood – Designer: Eugène Cornu – Built by: Pierre Delmez shipyard, Le Perreux sur Marne – Year Launched: 1949 – Original Name: Danycan – Original Owner: – Sail Area: Upwind 51.80 m2. – Flag: (FR) France
Historical:
DANYCAN, the name of a family of privateer shipowners from Saint-Malo, was built in 1949 on plans by Eugène Cornu at the Pierre Delmez Constructions Nautiques shipyards in Perreux-sur-Marne on behalf of Mr. Moses. This shipyard, active from 1858 to 1951, is known for its light constructions. The plan of the Danycan can be consulted at the Musée de la Marine.
DANYCAN has had several owners and has sailed from the Mediterranean to the English Channel. Besides Mr. Charles Pilorget, sailor and former president of the SNSM of Morbihan, known for having owned about sixty boats, the most prestigious of his owners was Count Michel de Rosanbo from 1952 to 1964.
Within the Société des Régates Rochelaises, this yachtman of the 1950s and 1960s won numerous trophies. One of his familiar teammates, between 1954 and 1958, was Eric Tabarly. The Tabarly father and son, friends of the Rosanbos, sailed aboard DANYCAN. Eric Tabarly in My Boats and I alludes to this: “the offshore racing boats often lacking crew, my father and I embarked on board our first local couriers: Farewell in La Trinité, then Danycan in La Rochelle. we were living the beginnings of cruising in France, the era of apprenticeship. ”
Having won several regattas, Danycan made the front page of Cahiers du yachting (n ° 71 in 1957) and of the Bateaux review (n ° 31 in 1960). We also find in the archives of Beken of Cowes some photographs of this cruiser-racer which wavered English hegemony in the RORC (Royal Ocean Racing Club) races of the 1950s.
After 1964, Danycan changed owners several times. not sailing between 1982 and 2013.
Restored in 2008, she was relaunched in 2013. She is racing again (Yacht Club Classique de La Rochelle; Challenge Classique Manche Atlantique) and joined the list of classic yachts approved by the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle.
Provenance. (The Wall of Remembrance – The Owners, Crew & Notable Guest):
- Guardian/Owner: (1952-1964) – Count Michel de Rosanbo, U.N.C.
- Guardian/Owner: Mr. Charles Pilorget
- Guardian/Owner: Patrick Lamache, Yacht Club Classique
Resources
- Musée Maritime de La Rochelle
- Georges Auzepy-Brenneur, Eugène Cornu, a great classic of naval architecture in Chasse-Marée, no. 173, October 2004.
- Éric Tabarly, “My boats and me.” Ed. Hachette, 1974.