🔴🇬🇧 LIVE start of The Transat CIC: Lorient ‣ New-York 🗽

🗓 Start Sunday 28 April at 13:30
🗺 Lorient ‣ New-York (3,500 nautical miles)
⛵️ 33 IMOCA, 13 Class40 and 2 Vintages boats
🌬 Single-handed North face Atlantic crossing
📲 More information : www.thetransat.com/en
ℹ️ History :
The event was born in 1960 when a handful of a handful of sailors led by Sir Francis Chichester and Blondie Hasler set themselves the challenge a race based on a simple but revolutionary concept. The world's oldest single-handed ocean in the world for nearly 60 years, The Transat has written an extraordinary story: the springboard for Éric Tabarly, the arrival of ocean-going multihulls, the invention of routing... The race is at the origin of ocean sailing as we know it today. More than ever, The Transat CIC is a fixture in the pantheon of ocean racing as one of the of the 4 major ocean races.

[@buaeder]

Go Boris!

[@tiagdvideo]

Excellent coverage, really great and well informed commentary.

[@GermanGreetings]

Thank you for this broadcast.

[@piolsson1248]

Thank you for excellent commentary 👍🏼👍🏼

[@jonathanlewis1352]

Thank you for providing excellent coverage! Go Clarisse!

[@BelindaFarage]

Thank you! Love this so much!

[@cindydlima]

Will you broadcast live the finish

[@luciustarquiniuspriscus1408]

So much noise in the background, was it unavoidable? I am not being difficult, it's a matter of accessibility. Very hard to make out the words from one of the two speakers with less-then-pristine hearing. A shame, because the commentary seemed very good when I could catch some.

[@damageman]

Agreed

[@cherylteach-in70berent5]

Transcript helps (with odd spelling at times): click more at bottom of description, select Transcript and see other links. We also use the CC option at top of screen. Maybe they can speak more dynamically next time.

[@cherylteach-in70berent5]

See you in NY harbor. For fun sailing (or Island Current fishing), take the #6 train (or Express bus) all the way to Pelham Bay #29 bus to city island- yacht clubs Harlem, City Island, Morris on Eastchester Bay.

[@cczook4419]

Ya got any chips? BBQ if ya got em.

[@suesterseel]

BEST IS BORIS. HE WILL MAKE IT WITH HIS TEAM AND MALIZIA ❤GERMANY GO 🏁🏁🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@patrickweissel5241]

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