The Tour du Finistère à la Voile welcomes every year about a hundred boats and more than 600 sailors. Open to everyone (under certain conditions), it is one of the great nautical events of the year. This year, the great novelty will concern the course, which will be reversed compared to the previous editions.
The Tour will start in Port La Forêt on July 23 and will end on July 29, 2016. Four stops in port cities will be planned: Concarneau on the 24th, Douarnenez on the 26th, Camaret sur Mer on the 27th, Lampaul Plouarzel âeuros the Aber Ildut on the 28th.
As a reminder, the crews will alternate a day at sea and an evening on land, with a big popular party in the host cities, except for one evening spent at sea.
In addition to the classifications by category for the Osiris and IRC classes, this year the Tour du Finistère à la Voile will once again crown the Young crews (half of the crew must be under 26 years old) and the Mixed crews (half of which are women.) For the past two years, these new classifications have met with great success
Who can participate in the Tour du Finistère à la Voile?
The Tour du Finistère à la Voile is open to sailboats in good standing with their national authority, approved in design category "A, B or C" CE standard or for boats built before June 16, 1998 approved in at least 4 e navigation category.
The boats that can participate are the following:
- Sailing boats of classes C, D, E, F, G and R of the OSIRIS rules with a rating greater than or equal to 10.0 net and less than or equal to 25.0 net and holding a valid OSIRIS identity card
- Boats holding a valid IRC certificate with a TCC greater than or equal to 0.9800. Limited duration IRC certificates of the SER type (reduced price) will be admitted
- To Half Tonner boats conforming to the rules of the 'Half ton class Europe' and holding a valid IRC certificate if they are represented by at least 8 registered boats. Half Tonner boats complying with the class rules and not holding an IRC certificate will be able to race with a limited duration IRC certificate of type SER (reduced price). If there are less than 8 boats registered, these Half Tonner must have a valid Osiris certificate and will be classified on compensated time with the other boats of the Osiris habitable groups.
The registration of boats of the "L" and "R1" classes or of the "Day Boat" category will be subject to the acceptance of the Organizing Committee.
Sailors must have a FFVoile license and form crews of at least 3 people.
