The Transat Jacques Vabre (TJV) is a 4,500 mile doublehanded race from Le Havre, France to Salvador, Brazil. Classes vary from 40 to 60 foot and there are both mono and multihulls racing. Whilst watching the end of this year’s Vendee Globe (the solo non stop round the world race for Open 60s that is held ever four years, and has been Nick’s long term goal now since 2000), we’ve been working on ways of getting to the startline for 2012.
Obviously the financial situation in the world means that things aren’t great for raising sponsorship at the moment but we will continue to work on this with moderated budgets and with some more ‘alternative’ ideas.
The short term goal is to take part in the double handed Transat Jacques Vabre in November with one of the existing Open 60 teams. Nick competed successfully in the Class 40 fleet in the last TJV and this is a logical step up. The reality is that this will also involve finding some funding to help put together a competitive package.
