Transat BPE

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Start day of the regatta 2007, far left the third place later: Charles Caudrelier on Bostik
The identical boats ( one-design ) Type Figaro Bénéteau 2 with the "Prologue" to Trophée BPE 2007

The Regatta Transat BPE (before 2009: Trophée BPE , after 2009: Transat Bénodet-Martinique ) is a biennial conducted offshore race without stopovers whose route begins in France. From 2001 it led first as a regatta for two-man teams to Dakar ( Senegal ), with a stopover in Porto Santo ( Madeira ); Since 2005, it's a one-handed - transatlantic race in the Caribbean .

The boats of the Figaro Bénéteau unit class are used for sailing . BPE (Banque Privée Européenne) was the main sponsor until 2009. In those years the regatta was named after her.

The regatta is traditionally strongly dominated by French sailors. Although some sailors from other nations also take part, all the medals up to 2010 went to French.

history

From 1980 to 1991, the La Baule-Dakar regatta was held every three to four years . Their route led from the French La Baule (Atlantic coast) to Dakar, with the sailors having to sail between the Azores islands of Faial and Pico . In 1980 and 1983 the competition was advertised as a regatta for (larger) teams, in 1987 for teams of two and in 1991 for single-handed sailors.

Figaro-Bénéteau-2 before the start of the 2007 regatta in Belle-Île harbor

François-Xavier Dehaye and his company Match Racing (a subsidiary of Pen Duick SAS , the organizer of the transatlantic regattas Route du Rhum and Transat Jacques Vabre ) continued this regatta tradition with the creation of the BPE Trophy . The regatta was supported by the city of Saint-Nazaire .

While the 2001 regatta was still open for single and multi-hull boats, from 2003 only boats of the one- class type Figaro Bénéteau 2 were used.

From 2005 the regatta was carried out as a one-handed transatlantic regatta to the Caribbean, in the first year to Cuba. Then the regatta, possibly based on the song Belle-île en Mer, Marie galante by the French singer Laurent Voulzy , was carried out on the same route - from Belle-île -en-Mer (Brittany) to Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe, Antilles) ; Saint-Nazaire withdrew from the regatta, instead, among other things, Belle-Île-en-Mer became a sponsor. After the main sponsor BPE withdrew and the start and finish points changed, the 2011 regatta was called Transat Bénodet – Martinique .

The individual regattas

Gildas Morvan, winner 2001 and 2009 (two days before the start of the 2007 regatta)
2007 regatta prologue; far left (with blue mainsail) the later winner of the trophy, Nicolas Troussel on Financo
Trophée winner 2007: Nicolas Troussel (two days before the start of the regatta)
  • 2007 (March 25; "Trophée BPE"): Belle-Île en Mer (France) - Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe, Antilles)
    • 1st place: Nicolas Troussel on Financo (21 T 9 hours 11 minutes 45 seconds)
    • 2nd place: Thomas Rouxel on Défi Mousquetaires (21 T 10 hours 10 minutes 19 seconds)
    • 3rd place: Charles Caudrelier on Bostik (21 T 11 hours 27 minutes 40 seconds: medal rank for the 4th time in a row)
    • a total of 27 boats, including Gildas Morvan on Cercle Vert (12th place), also 3 crashes and one boat that made it to the finish but was not rated ("DNF")
    • As a “prologue”, a regatta was organized along the coast of Belle-Île, the Challenge Conserverie La Belle-Iloise , before the BPE Trophy ; Winner: Charles Caudrelier .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Transat Bénodet – Martinique. Dossier de presse; Department of April 10, 2011 ; Naming of the individual regattas Page 7 of the PDF file 21.6 MB
  2. ↑ BPE at La Banque Postale
  3. ↑ www.europe1.fr, April 7, 2011: Tout sur la Transat Bénodet-Martinique
  4. ↑ Classement au 04/26/2009 at 5:30 p.m. ( Memento of November 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of www.transatbpe.com (French; accessed January 4, 2011)
  5. ↑ Transat BPE: Régate au long cours ... Edition 2007 ( Memento of November 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of www.transatbpe.com (French; accessed January 4, 2011)
  6. ↑ Transat BPE: Régate au long cours ... Edition 2005 ( Memento from April 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of www.transatbpe.com (French; accessed January 4, 2011)
  7. ↑ Transat BPE: Régate au long cours ... Edition 2003 ( Memento of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of www.transatbpe.com (French; accessed January 4, 2011)
  8. ↑ Transat BPE: Régate au long cours ... Edition 2001 ( Memento of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on the pages of www.transatbpe.com (French; accessed January 4, 2011)

Web links

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