The Transat Québec Saint-Malo is making its big return to the ocean racing calendar. After a 2020 edition canceled due to Covid, the famous transatlantic race created in 1984 by André Langlois, takes off this Sunday, June 30, from the port of Quebec on the Saint-Laurent River to Saint-Malo, the Breton corsair city. A race on the North Atlantic, which takes the opposite path to that of Jacques Cartier, the Malouin navigator explorer who “discovered” Canada in 1534.
DIRECT. Real-time leaderboard and positions
The course
The fleet of 28 boats, including 24 Class40s, must first descend the St. Lawrence River to its mouth in Gaspésie. A very delicate 400-mile journey due to the strong current and heavy maritime traffic. The boats have a route mark to cross in front of the town of Rivière-au-Renard. By avoiding a whale protection zone, south of Gaspésie, the fleet of Class40s and the four large mono boats will head towards Europe. Via a passage in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and the Fastnet rock for large monos. Directly on Saint-Malo for the Class40s.
The competitors
24 Class40 crews are participating in the race. Crews of three or four team members, most of them very experienced and made up of high-level sailors.
We find the tenors of the Class, such as the Italian Ambrogio Beccaria, winner of The Transat CIC, Ian Lipinski his runner-up, Amélie Grassi, Erwan Le Draoulec, Achille Nebout, Guillaume Pirouelle, Fabien Delahaye and Vincen Riou. And among the luxury teammates: Thierry Chabagny, Corentin Douguet, Alexis Loison, Benjamin Schwartz…
Palmares
During the last edition in 2016, it was the Spaniard Gonzalo Botin who won in 11d 22h ahead of Isabelle Joschke and Catherine Pourre… In Multi 50 Lalou Roucayrol crossed the line as winner ahead of Thierry Bouchard.
The list of winners also includes Laurent Bourgnon (1992), Loick Peyron (1996), Franck Cammas (2000), Karine Fauconnier (2004).
The list of 24 crews
104 Martinique
Jean-Yves AGLAE
Maane MANGATTALE
Hervé JEAN-MARIE
127 Equinox
Julia VIRAT
Gwenn DUVAL-STOJANOVIC
Solène PLAGNOL ROLAND
Coralie VITTECOQ
153 Nestenn-Entrepreneurs for the planet
Jules BONNIER
Julie SIMON
Yaël POUPON
158 Credit Mutuel
Ian LIPINSKI
Antoine CARPENTIER
Benoit HANTZPERG
160 E. Leclerc Ville La Grand
Antoine MAGRE
Olivier MAGRE
James MURPHY
163 Espoir by Be Racing
Justin Barratt
Christophe BACHMANN
Thibault HECTOR
170 La Boulangère Bio
Amélie GRASSI
Marie RIOU
Anne-Claire LE BERRE
Claudia CONTI
176 Happy Cafe
Nicolas D’ESTAIS
Leo DEBIESSE
Tanguy LEGLATIN
Cecile ANDRIEU
177 Everial
Erwan LE DRAOULEC
Davy BEAUDART
Pierre QUIROGA
Julien HEIR
181 Big Time – Pirelli
Ambrose BECCARIA
Bastian OGER
Julien VILLON
182 Amarris
Achille NEBOUT
Gildas Mahe
Alan ROBERTS
185 La Manche Nautical evidence
Nicolas JOSSIER
Swann PAIN
Frederico WAKSMAN
Antonin DES ROTOURS
186 IBSA Group
Alberto BONA
Pablo SANTURDE DEL ARCO
Luke ROSETTI
189 Sign for Com
Melwin FINK
Lennart BURKE
Simon KOSTER
Hendrik WITZMANN
190 Captain Atlernance
Keni PIPEROL DAMPIED
Thomas JOURDREN
Benoit MARIETTE
191 Movember
Cédric DE KERVENOAEL
Nicolas BOIDEVEZI
Sylvain CHANTELOUP
195 Vogue with a Crohn’s
Pierre-Louis ATTWELL
Michael LEMER
Malko SZEKELY
Maximum BENSA
196 Alternative Sailing – Constructions du Belon
Mathieu JONES
Antoine LE MANCHEC
Guillaume L’HOSTIS
Emmanuel LE ROCH
197 Sogestran – Seafrigo
Guillaume PIROUELLE
Alexis LOISON
Jules DUCELIER
198 Wasabiii
Stephane BODIN
Alois KERDUEL
Gildas MORVAN
199 Legallais
Fabien DELAHAYE
Corentin DOUGUET
Benjamin SCHWARTZ
Henri LECHARTIER
201 Acrobatics
Albert RIVA
Jean MARRE
Thomas STELLA
203 Pierreval – Good Planet Foundation
Vincent RIOU
Gerald VENIARD
Yann DAUPHIN
Thierry CHABAGNY
204 Dekuple
William MATHELIN MOREAUX
Peter LUCIANI
Axel TREHIN
