abstract:Alain Colas (September 16, 1943 in Clamecy (Nièvre) - November 16, 1978 (lost at sea during the first Route du Rhum) open sea, Azores) is a French sailor, the first to complete a solitary round-the-world race in a multihull. He met Éric Tabarly in Sydney in 1967, whom he bought Pen Duick IV from in 1970, and won the "Transat" in 1972.