9th Jacques Vabre Transatlantic Race

New horizons for the 2009 race: Costa Rica, here they come!

The 9th Jacques Vabre Transatlantic Race will head towards Costa Rica, in Central America. The doubles transatlantic race will leave Le Havre on the 7th November for monohulls and the 8th November for multihulls and will once again sail on a famous maritime road.

After four years going to Columbia, another four years going to Brazil, the fleet of the Jacques Vabre race will head towards Puerto Limon, the entrance port of Costa Rica on the Caribbean coast.

In 1852, Puerto Limon became a trade port to transport coffee to the central valley where San José is; it became essential to the economy of Costa Rica.

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Two starts, two routes

Two kinds of boats will race: monohulls and multihulls. As usual, there will be two departures and two routes. Monohulls will leave the port of Le Havre on 7th November at 2pm and multihulls will leave the next day, Sunday 8th November at 2pm as well.

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The race will start right away, even before the boats leave the Channel. Then, once in the high seas of the Atlantic Ocean, the two fleets will have to follow two different routes: monohulls will have to have the Dominican Republic on the starboard side whereas multihulls will have to have Barbados on the starboard side. Hence, 4730 nautical miles for monohulls and 5005 nautical miles for multihulls.

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An unchanged passion

Since it was created in 1993 and after 8 races, the Jacques Vabre Transatlantic race did not stop making progress in terms of participants, of the rising interest of the public or the quality of the medias. The passion is still here! With a country as authentic as Costa Rica, the sailors, partners & organisers of the race cannot wait for the 2009 Jacques Vabre Transatlantic Race!