🗓 Start Sunday 28 April at 13:30
🗺 Lorient ‣ New-York (3,500 nautical miles)
⛵️ 33 IMOCA, 13 Class40 and 2 Vintages boats
🌬 Single-handed North face Atlantic crossing

📲 More information : https://www.thetransat.com/en

ℹ️ History :
The event was born in 1960 when a handful of a handful of sailors led by Sir Francis Chichester and Blondie Hasler set themselves the challenge a race based on a simple but revolutionary concept. The world's oldest single-handed ocean in the world for nearly 60 years, The Transat has written an extraordinary story: the springboard for Éric Tabarly, the arrival of ocean-going multihulls, the invention of routing... The race is at the origin of ocean sailing as we know it today. More than ever, The Transat CIC is a fixture in the pantheon of ocean racing as one of the of the 4 major ocean races.