25.70 m aluminium monohull designed by Gilles Vaton and built in 2001 by Chantiers Gamelin for Jean-Luc Van Den Heede, who set the east-to-west solo round-the-world record on her in 2004.Former names: Iris
Alexis Thomas ends his race and the Adrien will be sailed back to La Rochelle after a Galician stopoverAlexis Thomas will not go back out in The Race, and the Adrien is now due to return to La Rochelle. Three days after the start, a broken rudder and further damage forced a stop in A Coruña. With Michel Desjoyeaux, he judged a restart pointless: weather was unfavourable and no rival remained for a solo resumption.
