Marie Tabarly's French 60ft alloy ketch Pen Duick VI has retired less than 48 hours into the 2022 SSE Renewables Round Ireland Yacht Race.
As Afloat reported, fifty years after France's legendary Eric Tabarly was winning "just about everything" with his 60ft alloy ketch, his daughter Marie was racing the yacht again in Irish waters but has now retired from the Round Ireland circuit.
According to the race tracker, the yacht retired off the Kerry coast this morning and is currently heading back across the Celtic Sea in the direction of her home port in France.
It is the seventh yacht to retire from the race, with the race favourite Ino XXX among the withdrawals on Sunday afternoon in some testing northerly conditions in the Atlantic.
See tracker below