The Journey Begins
I am SYLPHE….. a 60-foot classic French sailing yacht. My father was André Mauric. He was the most prolific and best known of France’s 20th century yacht designers, who started in the 1920s with radical designs for racing yachts to the International Meter Rule. In 1939 he designed a real beauty ….. Sylphe.
In those days the Bermudian rig was still considered new-fangled and fragile. Andre Mauric carried on well into the 1980s when, among other winners, he designed the highly successful Atlantic crossing record breaker Kriter VIII. In between he designed dozens of great boats, including Pen Duick VI for Eric Tabarly, the 1972 Half Ton Cup winner Impensable, the popular and successful First 30, and of course Sylphe, a classic yacht hidden underwater for six years. We will come back to that later.
