Transat Jacques Vabre

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2007 winner in the class of 60 feet - multihulls : Groupama II , sailed by Franck Cammas and Stève Ravussin (Picture: 2008)
Winner 2007 in the 60- foot monohull class: Foncia , sailed by Michel Desjoyeaux and Emmanuel Le Borgne (picture: 2008)

The regatta Transat Jacques Vabre - more rarely called La Route du café ( The Coffee Route ) - is a well-known transatlantic regatta. The regatta has taken place every two years since 1993 and leads from Le Havre in France to a South or Central American port without stopping and without external assistance (2009: Puerto Limón in Costa Rica ). The French-dominated regatta attracts many well-known offshore regatta sailors.

After the regatta was carried out as a one-handed regatta in its first year , it has since been restricted to teams of two sailors per boat - an unusual number for offshore regattas, which are usually advertised either for single-handed sailors or larger teams. The regatta is conducted in classes and is open to monohull and multihull boats .

The regatta is named after the French company Jacques Vabre , a coffee roaster that belongs to the Mondelēz International food company . The regatta is organized by Pen Duick SAS , which also organizes the Route du Rhum and Transat AG2R transatlantic regattas .

route

The port of departure for the Transat Jacques Vabre is the French Channel port of Le Havre. From 1993 to 1999 the port of destination was Cartagena in Colombia , from 2001 to 2007 Salvador da Bahia in Brazil, and most recently Puerto Limón in Costa Rica .

In many years the largest multihulls (60- foot- long catamarans and trimarans) had to sail a longer distance by circumnavigating a fixed island between port of departure and destination; until 2005 it was the Brazilian island of Fernando de Noronha , in 2005 the South Atlantic island of Ascension . Since multihulls are generally faster than monohulls and long boats are faster than shorter ones, the arrival times of the participants were adjusted somewhat (see below: Participating boat classes ). In 2007 there was no separate route for large multihulls.

The regatta is carried out without stopping, so that the exact route was and is left to the sailors in each case. Assistance from land - such as route planning on land - is not permitted.

Participating boat classes

Since the first edition of the regatta in 1993, the participants have started in different boat classes. At first there was only one class for monohulls and another class for the generally faster multihulls . In later years, as is now common practice in many larger regattas, classes for different hull lengths were differentiated within the single or multi-hull boats. The typical boat length is the internationally customary 50 or 60 feet (exception 2007: 40-foot boats), in particular the 60-foot boats according to IMOCA and ORMA guidelines for single and multi-hull boats.

In many years, multihulls only start one day after monohulls. Since they are generally much faster, they overtake the field that has already started in the course of the regatta and still usually reach the port of destination first.

winner
Trimarans in Le Havre before the 2005 regatta
Banque populaire on departure day 2005
  • 1993: Le Havre - Cartagena (Colombia), held for the only time as a one-handed regatta
    • 1st place multihull boats: Paul Vatine in the region of Haute-Normandie
    • 1st place monohulls: Yves Parlier on Cacolac d'Aquitaine
    • a total of 13 boats

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