Transat Jacques Vabre
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
- 2009: Le Havre (November 8th) - Puerto Limón ( Costa Rica )
- 1st place 50 'multihull boats: Franck-Yves Escoffier & Erwan Leroux on Crêpes Whaou - 15 d 15 hours 31 min 50 sec
- 1st place 60 ' monohulls: Marc Guillemot and Charles Caudrelier on Safran - 15 hours 19 hours 22 minutes 10 seconds
- 2007: Le Havre (November 3rd / 4th for single / multihull boats) - Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
- 1st place 60 'multihull boats: Franck Cammas and Stève Ravussin in Groupama II - 10 days 0 hours 38 minutes 43 seconds
- 1st place 50 'multihull boats: Franck-Yves Escoffier and Karine Fauconnier on Crêpes Whaou - 15 T 22 hours 27 minutes 37 seconds
- 1st place 60 'monohulls: Michel Desjoyeaux and Emmanuel Le Borgne on Foncia - 17 hours 2 hours 37 minutes 5 seconds
- 1st place 40 'monohulls: Giovanni Soldini and Pietro d'Ali on Telecom Italia - 22 hours 13 hours 2 minutes 22 seconds
- 60 boats in total
- 2005: Le Havre (November 5th / 6th for single / multihull boats) - Salvador da Bahia (Brazil) = 4340 nautical miles (8037 km) or for multihull boats including circumnavigation of the South Atlantic island of Ascension 5190 nautical miles (9600 km)
- 1st place 60 'multihull boats: Pascal Bidégorry and Lionel Lemonchois (France)
- 1st place 50 'multihull boats: Franck-Yves Escoffier & Kevin Escoffier on Crêpes Whaou
- 1st place 60 'monohulls: Jean-Pierre Dick & Loïck Peyron on Virbac Paprec
- 1st place 50 'monohulls: Joe Harris (USA) & Josh Hall on Gryphon Solo
- a total of 34 boats
- 2003: Le Havre - Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
- 1st place 60 'multihull boats: Franck Cammas and Franck Proffit on Groupama (I)
- 1st place 50 'multihulls: Hobson and Andy Newman (both United Kingdom ) on Mollymawk
- 1st place 60 'monohulls: Jean-Pierre Dick and Nicolas Abiven on Virbac. Horse
- 1st place 50 'monohulls: Conrad Humphreys (United Kingdom) and Paul Larsen (Australia) on Hellomoto
- a total of 38 boats
- 2001: Le Havre - Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
- 1st place 60 'multihull boats: Franck Cammas and Stève Ravussin in Groupama (I)
- 1st place 60 'monohulls: Roland Jourdain and Gaël Le Cléac'h on Sill Pleint Fruit
- 1st place 50 'monohulls: Alex Bennett and Paul Larsen on One Dream
- 1999: Le Havre - Cartagena (Colombia)
- 1st place multihull boats: Loïck Peyron and Franck Proffit in Fujicolor
- 1st place monohulls: Thomas Coville and Hervé Jan on Sodebo
- (During the regatta, the two-time winner Paul Vatine died when his Groupe André capsized; his fellow sailor Jean Maurel was rescued.)
- 1997: Le Havre - Cartagena (Colombia)
- 1st place multihulls: Laurent Bourgnon and Yvan Bourgnon on Primagaz
- 2nd place multihulls: Paul Vatine and Jean-Luc Nélias on Chauss'Europ
- 1st place monohulls: Yves Parlier and Éric Tabarly on Aquitaine Innovations
- 2nd place monohulls: Marc Thiercelin and Dominique Wavre on Somewhere
- 1st place multihulls: Laurent Bourgnon and Yvan Bourgnon on Primagaz
- 1995: Le Havre - Cartagena (Colombia), first staging of the regatta for two sailors per boat
- 1st place multihulls: Paul Vatine and Roland Jourdain in the region of Haute-Normandie (Vatine won in 1993)
- 2nd place multihulls: Francis Joyon and Jacques Vincent on Banque Populaire
- 1st place monohulls: Jean Maurel and Fred Dahirel on the Côte d'Or
- 1st place multihulls: Paul Vatine and Roland Jourdain in the region of Haute-Normandie (Vatine won in 1993)
- 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
Web links
- Official website
- “20minutes.fr”: “Pourquoi l'édition 2007 de la Transat Jacques-Vabre est-elle intéressante? » (" Why is the 2007 edition of the Transat Jacques-Vabre interesting? "- French)