Sergio Tacchini is an ORMA-class trimaran designed by Nigel Irens and built in 2000 in the mould of the Fuji(film) hulls. It was launched in August 2001 under the colours of the Sergio Tacchini brand, with Karine Fauconnier as skipper until 2005.
In 2001, during the Transat Jacques-Vabre, damage forced Karine Fauconnier and Franck Proffit to retire. In 2002, five days before the Route du Rhum start, the starboard float broke, causing a dismasting and withdrawal. The boat took 3rd in the 2003 Transat Jacques-Vabre and won the 2004 Québec-Saint-Malo transat.
In 2005 Swiss sailor Yvan Bourgnon bought the trimaran and renamed it Brossard. He finished 6th in the 2006 Route du Rhum and 4th in the 2007 Transat Jacques-Vabre with Jacques Vincent, and set several records including 610.45 miles in 24 hours in 2006.
On 7 June 2008 the boat was wrecked during a record attempt in Dubai. Repaired in 2009, it was again damaged and left at a quay in Khasab, Oman, where it was still abandoned in June 2010.
