She's been sailing since 1988.

She was drawn in 1987 by Michel Joubert and built by Technicoque, in Fouras on the French Atlantic coast. Launched in September 1988. Twenty-three metres and ninety, six double cabins under teak decks, a hull cut for the long passage. Joubert designed her with a single deck running edge to edge — full beam, no breaks — a concept later picked up by VPLP for the bigger trimarans.

Paul Percey commissioned her and skippered her for thirty-seven years. Cyclades and Sporades in the Aegean. The Red Sea — Egypt, Sudan — in the nineties. The Antilles in winter, the Med in summer, season after season. She was refitted in 2002, again in 2014, and again in 2024. The teak is the original teak; it's just darker now.

What she gives you when you step aboard is the feeling of a boat that's been used. The galley has copper that has gone matte with cooking. The salon table has the marks of glasses. Things creak in the way things settle into themselves. Nothing is staged, nothing has been smoothed over to feel new. She is what she is, after thirty-seven years.

In 2026 she changes hands — Paul Percey at sixty-nine, retiring; Sam taking her on. Same name, same boat. The crew changes a little. The story continues.