Horaires d'accueil : hôtel de ville et mairies de quartierPlateforme d’interprétariat aux personnes sourdes et malentendantes A Very High-Quality Field Set to Start The Transat CIC 15:55 - 27th Feb 2020 The legendary passage across the North Atlantic has proven one of the most difficult challenges to the solo sailor over the last 60 years. I am sure that The race is the successor, for professional sailors, to the original solo race across the North Atlantic that was born as the OSTAR in 1960 and which featured legends like Blondie Hasler and Sir Francis Chichester.
François Cuillandre, Mayor of Brest and President of Brest Metropole, commented: “Our city, home of many global offshore records, the starting harbour of the Brest Atlantic Race in 2019 and Brest Océans Race in 2023, is really proud to welcome the prestigious Transat, and in doing so to contribute towards a new step forward for the race. President of the Télégramme Group Edouard Coudurier commented: “We have long wanted to create a major ocean event in Brest, the Telegrammes home town. Avec des territoires breton, finistérien et brestois fortement mobilisés quand il s’agit de course au large, The Transat 2020 s’ouvrira bien évidemment au grand public qui pourra arpenter le village installé sur les quais, de Brest au printemps 2020. Vainqueur de la première édition de l’épreuve en 1960, Sir Francis Chichester avait mis 40 jours pour traverser l’Atlantique. 60 ans après, les plus rapides devraient traverser en 8 jours seulement…Edouard Coudurier (Le Télégramme), Hervé Favre (OC Sport Pen Duick), Jacqueline Tabarly et François Cuillandre, maire de Brest, ont annoncé le départ de The Transat 2020 depuis le port de Brest, en mai 2020. The first and oldest single-handed transatlantic race, The Transat, has announced that Brest in northern Brittany will host the start of the four-yearly classic in 2020. Course open, elle est ouverte sans limite de taille et en solitaire.
The Transat partira de Brest pour ses 60 ans. Eric Tabarly la remportera à deux reprises (1964 et 1976) et Loïck Peyron trois fois (1992, 1996 et 2008). Ce nouveau format de la Transat anglaise devait s'élancer de Brest en France, à destination de Charleston aux États-Unis, le 10 mai 2020 , soit une distance théorique de 3 500 milles. En cause la difficulté de trouver des partenaires financiers et peut-être aussi la volonté d’OC Sport propriétaire depuis 2004, de se rapprocher de la ville de Brest en vue de la Brest Oceans.La plus ancienne des courses transatlantiques en solitaire s’ancre en Bretagne, à Brest d’où s’élanceront en solitaire les skippers sur les 3500 milles d’un parcours en Atlantique Nord cap sur les Etats-Unis à Charleston. The oldest single-handed transatlantic race, The Transat, will carve out a new path in 2020, with the announcement that the city of Brest in northern Brittany, France, will host the start of the four-yearly classic. © Wirely SAS - 2019
Pour la première fois, la légendaire The Transat partira ainsi du port brestois en mai 2020. Its infrastructure, port capacity and geographical location as the last port in Brittany before North America, made it an obvious choice for the organisers, who will be taking the event into the undisputed heart of offshore sailing. Unfortunately for UK enthusiasts, the first and oldest single-handed transatlantic race, The Transat, will carve out a new path in 2020, with the announcement that the city of Brest in northern Brittany will host the start of the four-yearly classic. Un petit Brexit mais à l’envers. The Transat, which we will welcome a few weeks before the Brest 2020 Maritime Festival, will once again put the region under the spotlight, as was the case when we hosted the start of the Tour de France in 2008. Staging the start from Brest is a real opportunity for our sponsors and the teams to capitalise on this captive audience and we expect it to open up many new commercial opportunities which are essential to guarantee the longevity of the race. The Transat will give us the opportunity to do so and The Telegramme Group, with all its subsidiaries including OC Sports Pen Duick, Rivacom, Viamedia, TV Channel Tebeo, Planet Sailing and Sea Events, will strive to to make the race a sporting, economic, regional and international success, by applying the know-how already implemented for the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe, the main event organised by OC Sport Pen Duick.”The host city for the finish of The Transat will be announced in the coming weeks. The first and oldest single-handed transatlantic race, The Transat, will carve out a new path in 2020.Owned and organised by OC Sport Pen Duick, the French subsidiary of international event organiser OC Sport, The Transat is regarded as one of the toughest professional solo ocean races.