Marine illustration in 21 x 29.7 photo paper format to frame
Phocea, originally named Club Mediteranee, is a solo transatlantic racing boat built by the navigator Alain Colas. It took the name Vie Claire when it was bought by Bernard Tapie in 1982, who transformed it again to call it Phocea in Marseille. It was then bought by Mouna Ayoub in 1999. She sold it in 2010 to Xavier Niel associated with the brothers Jean Emile and Steve Rosenblum. The ship sank in Malaysia on February 18, 2021. Phocea was the largest sailing yacht in the world until 2004, replaced by Athena in 2004.