The Transgascogne changes course
After the Mini-Transat, the organisation of which has been entrusted to the institution Les Sables-d'Olonne Vendée Course au Large for the next three editions, and this from 2021, it is another race of the Mini circuit which changes organizer.
Following a call for tenders, Versace Sailing Management will organise the next two editions of the Mini 6.50 Transgascogne, in 2021 and 2023. From Verdon-sur-Mer, in the Gironde region of France, the participants will set off from Verdon-sur-Mer to Getxo (Spanish Basque Country) before retracing their steps, for a total distance of 600 miles. The start will be given on 28th July 2021 with an expected arrival in the Basque Country around 1st July 2021 er august. The 2nd stage will be given on August 3rd with an arrival scheduled around August 5th in Port-Médoc.
This first edition of the "Mini Gascogna" will be the last qualifying race to take part in the Mini Transat, whose next departures will take place in September 2021 and 2023. Between 50 and 70 boats are expected to take part in this event, which will be raced either double-handed or single-handed.
Registration opens for Mini Transat 2021
In fact, to take part in the Mini Transat, you have to register first. Competitors will be able to do this from 5 p.m. on 15 December. Places are limited to 84, so you'll have to be in the starting blocks to get your pass.
But registering is not enough. Indeed, with a limited number of places, qualification is compulsory. Thus, only sailors who have sailed more than 1?500 miles on the Mini 6.50 circuit over the last five years, with at least one 500-mile leg and a single-handed event on the boat with which they will be racing, can qualify for the Mini Transat.
The skipper must also have completed a qualifying course of 1?000 miles non-stop in the Atlantic on a loop between the south-east of Ireland and the island of Ré or in the Mediterranean between Sète, the Balearic Islands and the Italian island of Gorgona.
"The aim is to favour those who have sailed the most and not those who have achieved the best results. This allows everyone to have a chance, regardless of their level or their boat ", says Annabelle Moreau, class secretary.
Of the 84 places allocated, the breakdown is as follows:
- 3 for Proto's launched during the year
- 32 for Series
- 32 for Proto
- 17 for the first qualifiers, regardless of category.
