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74 duos<\/a>\u00a0will start the\u00a0Transat Caf\u00e9 L\u2019Or<\/strong>\u00a0on Sunday from 2 p.m. As before every major race,\u00a0<\/em>Sailorz\u00a0has gathered a panel of experts to discuss\u00a0the contenders<\/strong>. After the Ocean Fifty and Class 40 last week, the focus is on the\u00a0Imoca<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Ultim<\/strong>\u00a0classes with Imoca skippers Paul\u00a0Meilhat<\/strong>, S\u00e9bastien\u00a0Simon<\/strong>, and Nicolas\u00a0Lunven<\/strong>, Charles\u00a0Caudrelier<\/strong>, who is awaiting his next\u00a0<\/em>Gitana 18\u00a0in December, the race director of the 24h Ultim, Christophe\u00a0Gaumont<\/strong>, and the director of the Finist\u00e8re offshore racing hub, Jeanne\u00a0Gr\u00e9goire<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

With\u00a018 Imoca boats<\/a>\u00a0at the start, including 13 foilers, the Transat Caf\u00e9 L\u2019Or features\u00a0a smaller field<\/strong>\u00a0(there were 40 in 2023, 23 in 2021), which is explained by this year’s transfer window post-Vend\u00e9e Globe, but also by\u00a0the proximity of The Ocean Race Europe<\/strong>, which only finished on September 22 in Montenegro.\u00a0“Returning from the Mediterranean, the boats only had a week’s break in Lorient before being delivered to Le Havre again. Humanly, you’ve been away from home for three months and the change in weather context is harsh!”<\/em>\u00a0explains Paul Meilhat, whose contract with Biotherm has ended, but\u00a0“would not have imagined combining the two events if the opportunity had arisen.”<\/em><\/p>\n

In fact, only\u00a0Allagrande Mapei<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Ambrogio Beccaria\/Thomas Ruyant) and\u00a0Paprec Ark\u00e9a<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Yoann Richomme\/Corentin Horeau) have chosen to participate in both races, as have Francesca Clapcich and Will Harris, the former now at the helm of Boris Herrmann’s former\u00a0Malizia<\/em>, renamed\u00a011th Hour Racing<\/em>. And while our experts consider the sequence to be challenging, they still place\u00a0Paprec Ark\u00e9a<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0at the top of their predictions, tied with\u00a0Macif Sant\u00e9 Pr\u00e9voyance<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Sam Goodchild\/Lo\u00efs Berrehar).<\/p>\n

“Yoann and Corentin have sailed many miles together, the former has experience, the latter, who will skipper this Imoca next year, will be at 2000 percent!”<\/em>\u00a0estimates Jeanne Gr\u00e9goire.\u00a0“The Koch Finot-Conq designs are superior in strong downwind breeze.<\/strong>\u00a0At 15 knots on flat water, the Verdier boats are equal, but in a strong trade wind, they are on average a knot faster,”<\/em>\u00a0adds Nicolas Lunven. The person responsible for pre-race routing for the Finist\u00e8re Offshore Racing hub adds:\u00a0“If you cover the 2,500 miles between the Canaries and Fort-de-France at an average of 20 knots in a straight line, that means five days of racing and therefore\u00a0a difference of over 100 miles at the finish<\/strong>. It’s very simple math, but you have to keep that in mind.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Macif Sant\u00e9 Pr\u00e9voyance<\/em>\u00a0in pole position<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our experts also highlight\u00a0the somewhat unusual course for the Imocas (4,350 miles)<\/strong>, channelled by the Canary Islands archipelago to be left to starboard, which, according to Paul Meilhat,\u00a0“can really block the game.”<\/em>\u00a0“After the Canaries, it risks looking like a speed race,<\/strong>“<\/em>\u00a0confirms S\u00e9bastien Simon.\u00a0“But the question is not so much what will happen after as what will happen before!”<\/em>\u00a0And the third-place finisher in the Vend\u00e9e Globe, who is closely monitoring the construction of his new Verdier design at Carrington in England, sees\u00a0Macif Sant\u00e9 Pr\u00e9voyance<\/em>\u00a0as the logical favorite<\/strong>:\u00a0“They will win because the boat is very versatile, extremely fast upwind, which is crucial for the descent, and the tandem is full of confidence. The results<\/em>\u00a0[victory in the Course des Caps and the D\u00e9fi Azimut, Editor’s note], the momentum with the recent announcements<\/em>\u00a0[new campaign until 2030,\u00a0see our article<\/a>], all that works in their favor.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The duo formed by Sam Goodchild and Lo\u00efs Berrehar is therefore in the lead on the Imoca that won the last Vend\u00e9e Globe, a boat whose sistership\u00a0Association Petits Princes-Qu\u00e9guiner<\/em>, launched in 2025, is considered by some to be too young<\/strong>\u00a0in the class to do better than an honorable place. Only Nicolas Lunven imagines it on the podium, in third position:\u00a0“The Verdier design remains the reference, it benefited from the expertise of MerConcept, so its crew immediately found the controls in training and in races<\/em>\u00a0[second in the Course des Caps, victory in the Fastnet, Editor’s note].“<\/em>\u00a0Jeanne Gr\u00e9goire, for her part, says she is\u00a0“very impressed by Elodie’s level of maturity<\/strong>\u00a0in the overall management of her project since the start of the season.”<\/em><\/p>\n

At the same level as the Elodie Bonafous\/Yann Eli\u00e8s duo, our experts place that of\u00a0Allagrande Mapei<\/em><\/strong>, composed of two defending champions, Ambrogio Beccaria (winner in Class40) and Thomas Ruyant (who won in 2021 and 2023 in Imoca), but hampered in its preparation, between its structural issue on the Course des Caps and its collision with\u00a0Holcim PRB<\/em>\u00a0at the start of The Ocean Race Europe.<\/p>\n

For the third step of the podium, they are betting more on\u00a0Charal<\/em><\/strong>, led by the tandem J\u00e9r\u00e9mie Beyou\/Morgan Lagravi\u00e8re.\u00a0“They are hungry, have worked hard on the boat, and\u00a0there could be a Morgan effect<\/strong>\u00a0for his incomparable feel,”<\/em>\u00a0emphasizes S\u00e9bastien Simon, who recalls that the latter accompanied Thomas Ruyant on his last two victorious Imoca editions. A feel that Jeanne Gr\u00e9goire also highlights, who also observed an improvement in the Manuard design during the last training sessions in Port-La-For\u00eat:\u00a0“They take off earlier than before, especially upwind, and that is a crucial variable<\/strong>\u00a0in all transitions. The battle will be very tight in any case, and the podium will be decided on small details.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Our experts’ podium:<\/strong>\u00a01.\u00a0Macif Sant\u00e9 Pr\u00e9voyance<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Paprec Ark\u00e9a<\/em>, 3.\u00a0Charal<\/em><\/p>\n

Two “maxi favorites” in Ultim<\/span><\/h2>\n

With 6,200 miles ahead of the bows, an incursion into the Southern Hemisphere, and the Doldrums to cross both ways, it is\u00a0a very complete menu awaiting the Ultims<\/strong>, for whom, in everyone’s opinion, the ban on routing will have no consequences on anyone’s ambitions. Race director of the 24h Ultim, the last confrontation before the Transat Caf\u00e9 L’Or, Christophe Gaumont notes that\u00a0“all the boats have clearly progressed in one year,<\/strong>\u00a0not just\u00a0<\/em>Maxi Banque Populaire XI\u00a0with its new foils.”<\/em>\u00a0This is confirmed by Jeanne Gr\u00e9goire, who brought the four boats together for a training session in Port-La-For\u00eat this autumn:\u00a0“They weren’t all at the same level depending wind angles, but they were always in contact, it was very beautiful to observe!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Winner in 2021 with Franck Cammas,\u00a0Charles Caudrelier is, for his part,\u00a0“impressed by the progress of\u00a0<\/em>Maxi Banque Populaire XI\u00a0which takes off earlier and proves to be much more efficient upwind.”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The defending champion, the Ultim led by Armel Le Cl\u00e9ac’h and S\u00e9bastien Josse, is also consistently cited as the winner by all our experts, but\u00a0systematically tied with\u00a0SVR-Lazartigue<\/em><\/strong>!\u00a0“Excluding a race incident, we don’t really see what could prevent one or the other from winning,”<\/em>\u00a0summarizes Christophe Gaumont.<\/p>\n

Winner of the two confrontations this year (Fastnet and 24h Ultim), the VPLP design of Tom Laperche and Franck Cammas, second in Fort-de-France in 2021 and 2023, is considered by Charles Caudrelier to be\u00a0“the most beautiful platform.”<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0A platform reputed to be fragile, which is no longer the case for the person who is refining his\u00a0Gitana 18<\/em>, the next Ultim to take flight.\u00a0“They have had reliability problems in the past, but sometimes due to bad luck, and they are not major problems. The boat is very good,\u00a0Tom is a pure talent, and Franck is one of the best in this kind of exercise<\/strong>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

With only four boats at the start (there were five in 2023), betting on a podium also means determining\u00a0the weak link in the small family<\/strong>\u00a0of large flying trimarans. Jeanne Gr\u00e9goire sums up the opinion of many by saying:\u00a0“Sodebo<\/strong>\u00a0will be there in the strong conditions, but retains\u00a0small speed deficiencies that it risks paying for at one point or another<\/strong>.”<\/em>\u00a0For Christophe Gaumont, the big question mark remains\u00a0“the level of handling by Anthony Marchand and Julien Villion on Actual Ultim 4.”<\/em>\u00a0The former\u00a0Gitana 17<\/em>\u00a0– which\u00a0“has not evolved technically for two years,”<\/em>\u00a0according to its former skipper Charles Caudrelier – clearly remains a reference in the category, as it is most often cited to complete the podium.<\/p>\n

Our experts’ podium:\u00a0<\/strong>1.\u00a0Banque Populaire XI<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0SVR-Lazartigue<\/em>, 3.\u00a0Actual Ultim 4<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo : Julien Champolion<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

74 duos\u00a0will start the\u00a0Transat Caf\u00e9 L\u2019Or\u00a0on Sunday from 2 p.m. As before every major race,\u00a0Sailorz\u00a0has gathered a panel of experts to discuss\u00a0the contenders. 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