Captured on camera: solo offshore racing pt1

Blue Green photo agency's Christian Fevrier provides this unique gallery from the annals of solo sailing

Birch went down in the annals of yachting history in the first running of the French answer to the OSTAR, the Route du Rhum in 1978. For this he sailed A Cappella, a trimaran that had been designed, built and then sailed by his close friend Walter Greene (see bottom of page).