2006

Celebrated every 4 years, it passes from Saint-Bad (France) to Guadalupe in the Caribbean, in a route whose orthodromic it is of 3500 miles, and that in the majority of the cases, although are the shortest way usually is not the fastest way. In the way, the participants must fight with winds and currents, sometimes avoiding them, and in other occasions looking for them. 

But in enough occasions, that the route defines is the adversary with whom they compete and that they have “to mark” and to watch not to let to him escape. When they leave Britain back French, the participants spend his first night in waters of La Mancha, soon to cross the Gulf of Gascoña. Several days later arrive at the zone of the Goshawks with their famous anticyclone installed almost always, and that abre the doors to the alíseos, freeways that take towards the goal.

As well as in the first days it is fundamental a good technique and physical training to do against the hard conditions of navigation, in the Goshawks it is fundamental to apply good tactics that allow to get away of the anticyclone and weak winds. Once “hooked” the alíseos the way towards Pointe-à-Pitre in the goal is question of several days of navigation in which trimming at any moment then of it is due to take to the sailboat perfectly can depend the attainment on a new record.