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 | Morgan Lagravière (FRA) Nicolas Lunven (FRA) | Safran | 2015 | 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) | ||||||
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The 2021 of the Transat Jacques Vabre was the 15th edition edition and was raced from Le Havre, France, to Fort de France, Martinique.
The 2019 of the Transat Jacques Vabre was the 14th edition edition and was raced from Le Havre, France, to Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
The 13th edition of the Transat Jacques Vabre was held in 2017 and was raced from Le Havre, France, to Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. With all classes sailing the traditional 4350 Nautical Mile course.
The 2013 Transat Jacques Vabre was the 11th edition and was raced from Le Havre, France, to Itajai, Brazil a course distance of 5395 Nautical Miles.
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