France Bleu Normandie live from Le Havre for the 15th Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie-Le Havre

Organizers, skippers, sponsors, exhibitors, they all came to the microphone of France Bleu Normandie.

Class 40 Mutual Aid Marine Nicolas Lemarchand Thimoté Polet

The Bélem stopover in Le Havre © Radio France
Serge Baillivet

The Bélem, famous 3 French masts, is on a winter stopover in Le Havre. The opportunity to take stock with captain Aymeric Gibet

Jacobs Douwe Egberts is the world’s leading coffee manufacturer and owner of the Jacques Vabre brand
Marc Dujardin Marketing Director JDE

The start of the race will be given on Sunday November 7 at 1:27 p.m.

One of the most photographed sailboats, is the Imoca Charal of Jeremie Beyou and Christopher Pratt

For such a sailing race you need partners and sponsors!

The Transat Jacques Vabre is a whole team to ensure that everything goes well. A new course that will take the competitors to Martinique, to Fort-de-France.

The Transat is the opportunity to discover sailing.

The Transat is also about defending values ​​and the environment

When the skippers leave Le Havre, they will sail to the Etretat buoy before taking to the sea route. In Le Havre, the ENSM trains merchant navy officers and maritime engineers and offers navigation simulator demonstrations in the Transat village.

Marie Tabarly and Louis Duc skippers Imoca Kostum / Lantana landscapes Transat Jacques Vabre on France Bleu Normandie
Marie Tabarly and Louis Duc skippers Imoca Kostum / Lantana landscapes Transat Jacques Vabre on France Bleu Normandie © Radio France
Serge Baillivet

This year the “Ultime” are back, the largest sailing ships, the fastest, true planes of the seas

Among the skippers on the starting line, a former pole vaulter Jean Galfione in Class 40

Pierre Casenave-Péré and Kévin Bloch Class 40 Legallais skippers with Serge Baillivet on France Bleu Normandie
Pierre Casenave-Péré and Kévin Bloch Class 40 Legallais skippers with Serge Baillivet on France Bleu Normandie © Radio France
Serge Baillivet

For their first Jacques Vabre, Pierre and Kévin cross on the pontoons of the big names in sailing. This will be their 4th duo race this year.


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