Sailing: three Ultimate giants and fliers increase the pressure before the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre

Passing through Le Figaro this Wednesday with his co-skipper Kevin Escoffier for the Transat Jacques Vabre (departure from Le Havre on Sunday November 7), Armel Le Cléac'h announced to us that he was finally going to compete this weekend in the part of the Azimut challenge (the Charlie Dalin-Paul Meilhat duo won in the Imoca monohull this weekend). His Maxi Banque Populaire XI, launched on April 27, will thus face the Sodebo of Thomas Coville and Thomas Rouxel and the Actual of Yves Le Blévec and Anthony Marchand. And it is not impossible that the SVR-Lazartigue, baptized Tuesday by François Gabart and Tom Laperche, will compete in this 24-hour, 400-mile loop at the start and finish of Lorient. On the other hand Franck Cammas and Charles Caudrelier declined the invitation of Armel Le Cléac'h,very keen to compete with their future rivals in the double-handed transatlantic race and then the solo Rhum Route in 2022. "

, ”says the winner of the Vendée Globe and the Solitaire du Figaro.

from 6.50 m to 32 m

Depending on the weather forecast, which is expected to be weak, the flying trimarans should turn a buoy off Sables d'Olonne, which would make it possible to greet the competitors of the Mini-Transat leaving this Sunday.

From the 6.50-meter Mini to the 32-meter Ultimes, the two ends of the French offshore race would come together.

The five Ultimes will have one last opportunity to see each other next week during a course planned at the Finistère offshore racing center in Port la Forêt.