Mini Transat

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The Mini-Transat, in between also Transat 6.50 (originally, until 2001, and in the jargon still Minitransat ; since 2001, officially La Charente-Maritime / Bahia Transat 6.50 ), is a one-hand- Transatlantic regatta from east to west on 6.5 meter long slups . It was created by the British Bob Salmon after other transatlantic races became too expensive for many interested parties.

history

The race started in the early years in Great Britain, later in France, and is sailed in two stages, mostly with a stopover in the Canary Islands .

From 2001, the race was started under the name La Charente-Maritime / Bahia Transat 6.50 in Fort Boyard near La Rochelle in the French department of Charente-Maritime and led via the stage destination Lanzarote to Salvador da Bahia , Brazil - before the goals were in the Caribbean ('Columbus Route'). From 2007 Funchal on Madeira / Portugal was the port of destination for the first stage. Since 2017 it's back to Las Palmas on the Canary Islands , the destination is now Le Marin on Martinique in the Caribbean.

The great interest due to the costs is limited by the organizer (since 2001: Le Grand Pavois) (you can be there from around EUR 80,000 - the 2005 winner's budget was more than three times that) .

In 2005 72 yachts started. The admission took place in the order of the skipper's reports, which, however, are only accepted after certain conditions have been met (2005: including evidence of sailing practice in this boat class in the form of at least 1000 M one-handed and two-handed regattas, evidence of survival training) This guarantees the high standard of the field and makes the Transat 6.50 a race that is considered safe: in 2005 only eight tasks were recorded, all of them due to material breakage.

The competition paved the way for well-known single-handed sailors such as Ellen MacArthur , Isabelle Autissier and Jean Luc Van Den Heede to enter sailing careers and circumnavigating the world on much larger yachts.

The winning time in 2005 was a total of 24d 21:36:24, which corresponds to average speeds of 8.2 knots for the first stage and 6.7 knots for the second stage, or an average of 7.1 knots over 4,226 nautical miles.

The yachts

The Classe Mini is a construction class that, within the framework of certain limit values ​​(e.g. boat length, maximum draft), allows the designers some creative leeway in order to promote the technical development of yacht construction. Since 1994 it has been looked after by its own class association, after the class rules were previously defined by the organization of the Mini-Transat regatta. Minis are highly valued by the designers as inexpensive test vehicles for innovations in high-tech yacht building, especially for the related Open 60s , but also for earlier America's Cups . So were Kippkiele first used in Minis.

Rating

The Transat 6.50 has been rated since 1999 in the two categories of prototypes and series production.

Participants from German-speaking countries

Germany

So far there have been 18 German participants, twelve of whom made it to the finish line:

  • 1977, at the very first Mini Transat , Wolfgang Quix on the Waarschip 570 Waarwolf (at 5.70 m the smallest boat ever to take part - the “Mini” class did not yet exist, the “poor man's race” of that time was consistently sailed on self-adapted vehicles ).
  • In 1979 Alex Wopper had to give up after a broken rudder in Tenerife.
  • In 1981 Dagmar Häckel was picked up by a freighter after breaking her mast and capsizing.
  • In 1997 Matthias Beilken on Eissing crossed the finish line as 42nd and last of 52 starters.
  • 2001 Boris Herrmann on the Pogo-1 series production Global Crossing.
  • 2007 Henrik Masekowitz on a TipTop and Dominik Zürrer on a Pogo 1.
  • 2009 Andreas Lindlahr on a Pogo2 and Norbert Maibaum on a Pogo 1. Jörg Riechers started in the proto classification and had to give up after problems with the keel during the first stage and run to La Coruna.
  • In 2011 Jörg Riechers crossed the finish line as 5th and Björn Freels as 25th.
  • In 2013, after losing his keel, Henrik Masekowitz was rescued by a German freighter and taken to Guadeloupe .
  • In 2015 Chris Lükermann, Dominik Lenk and Jan Heinze reached the goal. After a serious rudder damage, Jan Heinze sailed 150 nautical miles north of Cape Verde, over 2,000 nautical miles with his damaged boat to Guadeloupe. He describes his experiences in his book "Atlantic fever - a man, a boat, a goal", which was published in January 2016 by Delius Klasing Verlag.
  • In 2017 Jörg Riechers (Lilienthal) started in the prototype classification, as did Oliver Tessloff (Pogo 3), Lina Rixgens (Pogo 2) and Andreas Deubel (Nacira) in the series classification. All participants managed the two stages. Jörg Riechers came in second (Proto), Oliver Tessloff took 14th (series), Andreas Deubel took 35th (series) and Lina Rixgens was 38th (series).

Austria

So far there was 1 Austrian participant who also reached the goal:

  • 2005 Christian Kargl landed 31st out of 42nd in the prototype evaluation. This year Christian Kargl was the only German-speaking participant.

The winners

  • 1977: Penzance (Great Britain) - Tenerife (Canary Islands) - Antigua : 4080 nautical miles, 26 starters, 19 classified
1. Daniel Gilard (38 days 11 h 10 min); 2. Kasmierz Jaworski; 3. Halvard Mabire; 4. Jean Luc Van Den Heede.
  • 1979: Penzance - Tenerife - Antigua: 25 starters, 13 classified
1. Norton Smith (32 days, 8 hours 10 minutes); 2. Jean-Luc Van den Heede; 3. Daniel Gilard
  • 1981: Penzance - Tenerife - Antigua: 32 starters, 28 classified
1. Jacques Peignon (32 days, 20 h 22 min); 2. Vincent Lévy; 3. Eric Lecotelley.
  • 1983: Penzance - Tenerife - Antigua: 42 starters, 16 classified
1. Stéphane Poughon (31 days, 14 h 45 min); 2. Bernard Abalan; 3. Olivier Chapuis.
1. Yves Parlier (31 days, 20 h 36 min); 2. Fred Guerin; 3. Sylvain Berthomé.
1. Gilles Chiorri (30 days 6 h 41 min); 2. Laurent Bourgnon ; 3. Isabelle Autissier
  • 1989: Concarneau - Tenerife - Fort-de-France: 53 starters, 49 classified
1. Philippe Vicariot (28 days 7 h 33 min); 2. Fred Guerin; 3. Dominic Bourgeois.
  • 1991: Douarnenez - Tenerife - Fort-de-France: 4090 nautical miles, 68 starters, 42 classified
1. Damien Grimont (29 days, 4 hours 37 minutes); 2. Patrice Carpentier; 3. Dominic Bourgeois.
  • 1993: Brest - Funchal ( Madeira ) - Saint-Martin (French West Indies): 3960 nautical miles [2900 miles, since first stage canceled], 59 starters, 25 counted
1. Thierry Dubois (15 days 3 h 52 min; record time across the Atlantic); 2. Marc Lepesqueux; 3. Yves Le Masson
  • 1995: Brest - Funchal (Madeira) - Fort-de-France, 4050 nautical miles, 39 starters, 32 classified
1. Yvan Bourgnon (27 days 07 h 21 min); 2. Thierry Fagnent; 3. Bernard Stamm.
  • 1997: Brest - Tenerife - Fort-de-France, 52 starters, 42 classified
1. Sébastien Magnen, yacht designer, on a self-designed prototype (38 days 11 hrs); 2. Thomas Coville (on magnetic crack); 3. Jean-François Pellet; 15th: Ellen MacArthur
  • 1999: Concarneau - Guadeloupe, 70 participants, 38 rated
Prototypes: 1. Sébastien Magnen (24 days 15 hrs)
[Magnen is the only one to have won the race twice];
2. P. Y. Moreau; 3. C. Sayer. 4. Erwan Tabarly.
Series yachts: 1. C. Bouroullec (28 days 13 h); 2. C. Dietch; 3. O. Desport.

2001–2005: Fort Boyard (FRA) - Puerto Calero (Lanzarote) - Salvador de Bahia (BRA):
1306 + 2920 = 4226 nautical miles, that is 7826 kilometers.

  • 2001: 70 participants, 38 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1. Y. Bestaven (30 d); 2. S. Curwen (30d 16h); 3. A. Boissières (30d18h).
Series yachts: 1. O. Desport (32 d 08 h); 2. F. Duval (32 days 15 hours); 3. A. Delord (32 d 18 h).
  • 2003: 70 participants, 38 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1. A. Tripon (24 d 15 h); 2. R. Merigeaux (25 days 1 h); 3. Alex Pella (25 d 15 h).
Series yachts: 1. E. Tymen (28 days 13 hours); 2. D. Raison (30 d 2 h); 3. D. Sineau (31 d 21 h).
  • 2005: 72 participants, 64 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1. Corentin Duguet (FRA) 24 d 21:36:24; 2. Alex Pella (ESP) 08:59:57; 3. Stanislas Maslard (FRA) +20: 34: 06.
Series yachts: 1. Peter Laureyssens (BEL) 27 d 04:02:20; 2. Bruno Sottovia (FRA) +1 d 04:21:40; 3. Ronan Deshayes (FRA) +1 d 09:15:44.

2007, 2009: Fort-Boyard (FRA) - Funchal (Madeira, POR) - Salvador da Bahia (BRA):
1100 + 3100 = 4200 nautical miles, that's 7778.4 kilometers.

  • 2007: 89 participants, of which 83 were rated:
Prototypes: 1. Yves Le Blevec (FRA) 23 d 03:51:24; 2. David Sineau (FRA) 24d 00:59:22; 3. Fabien Després (FRA) 24d 04:19:25.
Series yachts: 1. Hervé Piveteau (FRA) 26 d 04:31:17; 2. Stéphane Le Diraison (FRA) 26d 16:34:24; 3. David Krizek (CZE) 26 d 18:15:37.
  • 2009: 85 participants, 78 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1. Thomas RUYANT (FRA) 24 d 23:38:30; 2. Bertrand DELESNE (FRA) 25d 03:07:04; 3. Henri Paul SCHIPMAN (FRA) 25d 05:26:23.
Series yachts: 1. Francisco LOBATO (POR) 26 d 19:39:18; 2. Charlie DALIN (FRA) 27d 07:28:10; 3. Xavier MACAIRE (FRA) 27d 21:00:14.

2011: La Rochelle (FRA) - Funchal (Madeira, POR) - Salvador de Bahia (BRA):
4200 nautical miles, that's 7778.4 kilometers

  • 2011: 79 participants, 59 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1. David RAISON (FRA) 26 d 03:28:40; 2. Thomas NORMAND (FRA) 27d 02:58:25; 3. Antoine RIOUX (FRA) 27d 12:05:05.
Series yachts: 1. Gwénolé GAHINET (FRA) 29 d 16:46:40; 2. Pierre BRASSEUR (FRA) 29 d 20:22:35; 3. Benoit MARIETTE (FRA) 30d 00:42:14.

2013, 2015: Douarnenez (FRA) - Marina Lanzarote (Arecife, Lanzarote, Canaries, ESP) - Pointe à Pitre (Guadeloupe, FRA):
4020 nautical miles, that's 7,445 kilometers

  • 2013: 84 participants, 51 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1. Benoit MARIE (FRA) 18 d 13:01:05; 2. Giancarlo PEDOTE (ITA) 18d 15:56:30; 3. Rémi FERMIN (FRA) 19d 13:38:46.
Series yachts: 1. Aymeric BELLOIR (FRA) 21 d 09: 12: 27; 2. Justine METTRAUX (FRA) 22 d 22: 55: 34; 3. Simon KOSTER (SUI) 23d 11:15:59.
  • 2015: 73 participants, 58 of them rated:
Prototypes: 1st Frédéric DENIS (FRA) 19 d 23: 19: 55; 2nd Luke BERRY (GBR), 20 d 14: 04: 49; 3. Ludovic MECHIN 20 d 15:36:16.
Series yachts: 1st Ian LIPINSKI (FRA) 22d 09: 36: 30; 2nd Julien PULVE (FRA) 22d 12: 49: 04; 3rd. Tanguy LE TURQUAIS (FRA) 23d 02:45:43.
  • 2017: 81 participants, of which 77 are currently evaluated:
Prototypes: 1. Ian LIPINSKI (FRA), 13d 00h 22min 34s; 2. Jörg Riechers (GER), 13d 12h 04min 46s; 3. Simon Koster (SUI), 13d 22h 56min 10s.
Series yachts: 1. Erwan Le Draoulec (FRA), 14d 12h 42min 15s; 2. Clarisse Crémer (FRA), 14d 23h 07min 02s; 3. Benoit Sineau (FRA), 15d 01h 11min 02s.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. What is Classe Mini? Classe Mini, accessed January 21, 2015 .
  2. Kiel loss: distress call from the "Caribou" Yacht.de: from March 31, 2013