This Class40, hull number 137, was designed by Sam Manuard and built by the JPS Production yard. It was launched on 28 July 2014 at La Trinité-sur-Mer and first raced as Solidaires en Peloton with Thibaut Vauchel-Camus. On its first transatlantic, the 2014 Route du Rhum, it finished second in its class at Pointe-à-Pitre.
In 2015 and 2016, racing as Solidaires en Peloton (later Solidaires en Peloton/ARSEP), it won the Tour de Belle-Île, the Armen Race, the SNSM Trophy and then the 2016 Transat anglaise, and took two consecutive Class40 championship titles. In the 2015 Transat Jacques-Vabre a rudder problem forced a stop in Cape Verde before a fourth place in Itajaí, with Victorien Erussard as co-skipper.
In 2017, renamed Phor-ty, it won the RORC Caribbean 600 and the Myth of Malham Race. In 2018 it carried the colours of the Netflix series Narcos: Mexico for the Route du Rhum, entrusted to Sam Goodchild: shortly after the start, while seventh among the Class40s, it was dismasted.
The boat then raced as Manic (2019, winner of the RORC Morgan Cup), Virgin Media Business (2020-2021, winner of the RORC Myth of Malham in 2021), then Tquila from 2021. Under that name Brian Thompson and Alister Richardson took it to eleventh place in the 2021 Transat Jacques-Vabre, and it won the Sevenstar Round Britain and Ireland the following year.
31 sources · updated 9 Nov 2026
| Race | Boat name | Skipper | Result | Elapsed time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round Britain and Ireland Race2022 | Tquila | 1st | 13 d 02 h 06 min | |
| Normandy Channel Race2022 | Tquila | 21st | 5 d 08 h 32 min | |
| Transat Café L'Or2021 | Tquila | 11th | 22 d 06 h 11 min | |
| 40 Malouine2021 | Tequila | — | ||
| Normandy Channel Race2020 | Virgin Media Business | 5 d 06 h 10 min |
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