FILE PHOTO 19 APRIL 1996 - French yachtsman Eric Tabarly seen aboard 'Pen Duick' in this 1996 file photograph. Tabarly went missing after he ran into unspecified trouble aboard Pen Duick off the southern coast of Wales, June 12. Rescue efforts to find the 66-year-old sailor, famous for his many victories during the 1960s and 1970s in solo cross ocean races were vain.

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