The 2015 edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre was the 12th edition the course was 5400 nautical miles from Le Havre in France, to Itajai in Brazil. [1]
| Pos. | Boat. | Crew | Elapsed Time | Delta | % | Rhum Knots | Distance Sailed | Water Knots | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Design | Age | Name | |||||||||
| 1 | Macif | 100ft VPLP Tri | 2015 |  François Gabart (FRA) Pascal Bidégorry (FRA) |  | 12d 17h 29m 27s | 0 | 17.68 | [2] | |||
| 2 | Sodebo Ultim' | 2013 | Thomas Coville (FRA) Jean-Luc Nélias (FRA) | | 13d 01h 17m 38s | 0d 07h 48m 11 | 20.85 | 17.24 | 0 | [3] | ||
| ABN | Actual | Yves Le Blevec (FRA) Jean-Baptiste Le Vaillant (FRA) | ||||||||||
| ABN | Prince de Bretagne | Lionel Lemonchois (FRA) Roland Jourdain (FRA) | ||||||||||
| Pos. | Boat. | Crew | Elapsed Time | Delta | % | Rhum Knots | Distance Sailed | Water Knots | Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S/N | Boat Name | Age | Name | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | FenêtréA Prysmian | 2009 | Erwan Le Roux (FRA) Giancarlo Pedote (ITA) | | 16d 22h 29m 13s | 13.28 | [4] | ||||
| 2 | 83 | Ciela Village (1) | 2005 | Thierry Bouchard (FRA) Olivier Krauss (FRA) | | 17d 17h 44m 51s | 0d 19h 15m 38 | 4.74 | 12.68 | [5] | ||
| 3 | 9 | Arkema – Région Aquitaine | 2013 | Lalou Roucayrol (FRA) César Dohy (FRA) | | 20d 22h 47m 55s | 4d 00h 18m 42 | 23.69 | 10.74 | 6337 | 12.60 | [6] |
| ABN | 35 | La French Tech Rennes Saint-Malo | 2009 | Gilles Lamiré (FRA) Yvan Bourgnon (SUI) | | Collided with a container | [7] | |||||
| Pos. | Boat. | Crew | Elapsed Time | Delta | % | Rhum Knots | Distance Sailed | Water Knots | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boat Name | Age | Crew | |||||||||
| 1 | PRB (4) | 2010 | Vincent Riou (FRA) Sebastien Col (FRA) | | 17d 00h 22m 24s | d 0h 0m 0 | 0 | 13.22 | 0 | [8] | |
| 2 | Banque populaire VIII | 2015 | Armel Le Cléac'H (FRA) Erwan Tabarly (FRA) | | 17d 08h 29m 09s | 0d 08h 06m 45 | 1.99 | 12.97 | 0 | ||
| 3 | Queguiner - Leucémie Espoir | 2007 | Yann Elies (FRA) Charlie Dalin (FRA) | | 17d 10h 01m 23s | 0d 09h 38m 59 | 2.36 | 12.92 | 0 | ||
| 4 | Le souffle du Nord | 2007 | Thomas Ruyant (FRA) Adrien Hardy (FRA) | | 18d 01h 27m 45s | 1d 01h 05m 21 | 6.14 | 12.46 | 0 | ||
| 5 | Initiatives Cœur | 2006 | Tanguy De Lamotte (FRA) Sam Davies (GBR) |  | 18d 07h 09m 14s | 1d 06h 46m 50 | 7.54 | 12.3 | 0 | ||
| 6 | MACSF | 2007 | Bertrand De Broc (FRA) Marc Guillemot (FRA) | | 18d 22h 10m 05s | 1d 21h 47m 41 | 11.21 | 11.89 | 0 | ||
| 7 | Comme un seul homme | 2008 | Éric Bellion (FRA) Sam Goodchild (GBR) | | 19d 02h 15m 34s | 2d 01h 53m 10 | 12.22 | 11.78 | 0 | [9] | |
| 8 | Newrest - Matmut | 2007 | Fabrice Amédéo (FRA) Éric Péron (FRA) | | 19d 05h 07m 56s | 2d 04h 45m 32 | 12.92 | 11.71 | 0 | ||
| 9 | Bureau Vallée | 2006 | Louis Burton (FRA) Romain Attanasio (FRA) | | 19d 05h 11m 33s | 2d 04h 49m 09 | 12.93 | 11.71 | 0 | [10] | |
| DNF | O Canada | 2006 |  Eric Holden (CAN) Morgen Watson (CAN) | Abandon le 2 November (casse matérielle) | |||||||
| DNF | StMichel-Virbac | 2015 | Jean-Pierre Dick (FRA) Fabien Delahaye (FRA) | Abandon le 1 November (problèmes de structure) | |||||||
| DNF | Bastide-Otio (1) | 2010 | Kito de Pavant (FRA) Yann Régniau (FRA) | Abandon le 31 octobre (avaries multiples) | |||||||
| DNF | Spirit of Hungary | 2014 |  Nándor Fa (HUN) Péter Perényi (HUN) | Abandoned on 31 octobre (démâtage) | |||||||
| DNF | Hugo Boss (6) | 2015 | Alex Thomson (GBR) Guillermo Altadill (ESP) | Abandoned on 31 octobre (problèmes de structure) | |||||||
| DNF | SMA | 2011 | Paul Meilhat (FRA) Michel Desjoyeaux (FRA) | Abandon le 30 octobre (problème de quille) | |||||||
| DNF | Adopteunskipper.net | 2007 | Nicolas Boidevezi (FRA) Ryan Breymaier (USA) | Abandon le 30 octobre (casse matérielle) | |||||||
| DNF | Le bateau des métiers by Aérocampus | 2007 | Arnaud Boissières (FRA) Stan Maslard (FRA) | Abandon le 28 octobre (grand voile déchirée) | |||||||
| DNF | Safran | 2015 | Morgan Lagravière (FRA) Nicolas Lunven (FRA) | Abandon le 28 octobre (voie d'eau) | |||||||
| DNF | Edmond de Rothschild | 2015 | Sébastien Josse (FRA) Charles Caudrelier (FRA) | Abandon le 26 octobre (avaries multiples) | |||||||
| DNF | Maitre Coq | 2010 | Jérémie Beyou (FRA) Philippe Legros (FRA) | Abandon le 26 octobre (casse matérielle) | |||||||
| Pos. | Boat. | Crew | Elapsed Time | Delta | % | Rhum Knots | Distance Sailed | Water Knots | Ref. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S/N | Boat Name | Model | Age | Name | |||||||||
| 1 | 142 | Le Conservateur | Tiz'h 40 | 2014 | Yannick Bestaven (FRA) Pierre Brasseur (FRA) | | 24d 08h 10m 09s | 0 | 7.45 | [11] | |||
| 2 | 144 | V and B | Mach 40.3 | 2015 | Maxime Sorel (FRA) Sam Manuard (FRA) | | 24d 10h 04m 31s | 0d 01h 54m 22 | 0.74 | 7.42 | |||
| 3 | 65 | Carac Advanced Energies | Akilaria Mk2 (Proto) | 2008 | Louis Duc (FRA) Christophe Lebas (FRA) | | 25d 21h 29m 52s | 1d 13h 19m 43 | 14.4 | 7 | |||
| 4 | 137 | Solidaires en Peloton ARSEP | Mach 40 | 2014 | Thibaut Vauchel-Camus (FRA) Victorien Erussard (FRA) | | 26d 09h 34m 00s | 2d 01h 23m 51 | 19.05 | 6.87 | |||
| 5 | 115 | Teamwork 40 | Mach 40 | 2012 | Bertrand Delesne (FRA) Nils Palmieri (SUI) | | 26d 22h 25m 45s | 2d 14h 15m 36 | 24.02 | 6.73 | |||
| 6 | 130 | Zetra | Mach 40 | 2013 |  Eduardo Penido (BRA) Renato Araujo (BRA) | | 28d 10h 37m 30s | 4d 02h 27m 21 | 37.98 | 6.37 | |||
| 7 | 30 | Groupe Setin | CMI / Rogers | 2007 | Manuel Cousin (FRA) Gérald Quéouron (FRA) | | 28d 18h 08m 10s | 4d 09h 58m 01 | 40.88 | 6.3 | |||
| 8 | 124 | SNBSM Espoir Compétition | Akilaria RC 3 | 2012 | Valentin Lemarchand (FRA) Arthur Hubert (FRA) | | 28d 19h 14m 05s | 4d 11h 03m 65 | 41.3 | 6.29 | |||
| 9 | 93 | Concise 2 | Akilaria RC2 | 2010 |  Philippa Hutton-Squire (RSA) Pip Hare (GBR) | | 28d 19h 48m 20s | 4d 11h 38m 11 | 41.52 | 6.29 | |||
| 10 | 103 | Club 103 | Canivenc | 0 | Alan Roura (SUI) Juliette Petrès (FRA) | | 32d 22h 38m 35s | 8d 14h 28m 26 | 79.65 | 5.5 | |||
| 11 | 98 | Creno Moustache Solidaire | Tyker 40 Evolution 2 | 2010 | Thibault Hector (FRA) Morgan Launay (FRA) | | 33d 04h 13m 20s | 8d 20h 03m 11 | 81.8 | 5.46 | |||
| ABN | 145 | Eärendil | Mach 40.3 | 2015 | Catherine Pourre (FRA) Antoine Carpentier (FRA) | | Abandoned on 30-Oct (Problem with Engine) | ||||||
| ABN | 125 | Bretagne - Crédit Mutuel Elite | Custom Humphreys | 2013 | Nicolas Troussel (FRA) Corentin Horeau (FRA) | | Abandoned on 28-Oct (auto pilot issues) | ||||||
| ABN | 129 | Team Concise | McConaghy Ker40 | 2013 |  Jack Boutell (AUS) Gildas Mahé (FRA) | | Abandoned on 28-Oct (Structural Problems) | ||||||