The cream of singlehanded racing will be meeting for the tenth time at St. Malo, on 2nd November next. The aim: to reach Guadeloupe as quickly as possible, while avoiding all the traps set by weather conditions which are always fickle at this period of the year. The 10th edition of the Route du Rhum will without a doubt once again be hotly disputed...
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Jean-Christophe Guillaumin
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A little history: 36 legendary years, and a passion which remains intact 1978: Michel Etevenon was an advertising man who felt that ocean racing needed reviving. He created a transatlantic race, leaving from St Malo, destination Guadeloupe. There were 38 boats at the start, of which only a quarter were genuine racing boats. But the legend had begun, and this first edition stood out, with a finish which would go down in the annals of ocean racing. After 23 days at sea, Mike Birch, aboard his little trimaran, Olympus Photo, beat Kritter, the big 21-meter monohull, skippered by Michel Malinowski,…
