Route du Rhum

The Route of Rum is a transatlantic race as a recluse, of 3510 miles (on the Orthodromie), which court of Saint-Malo to Point-with-Clown every four years in November.

Editions of the Road of Rum

1978: The First edition

In 1975, Bernard Hass, general secretary of the Trade union of the Sugar Producers and Rum of the Antilles, which seeks an idea to emphasize the die of rum, contact Florent de Kersauson. A few days later, Florent de Kersauson and Bernard Hass imagine a race with the veil in direction of the producing sugar and rum Antilles. The project under the arm, Florent de Kersauson contacts Eric Tabarly with which it sailed and Gerard Petitpas of company PEN Duick. " A race moreover? Not question! ".

By no means discouraged, both comparses bring the project to Michel Etevenon advertizing of Kriter, then sponsor of Olivier de Kersauson, the brother of Florent. A master stroke since Michel Etevenon then developed the project with the success which one knows today.

Its first edition in 1978 was marked by the disappearance of Alain Colas, as well as the victory over the wire of Michael Birch on “Olympus Photo” which preceded Michel Malinovsky on “Kriter V” for 98 small seconds.

Olympus having exceeded Kriter in front of a public many whereas the boats were almost in the sight of the finishing line (after more twenty-three days of race), this first edition symbolizes the moment when the multihulls acquired a supremacy vis-a-vis the monoshells. Before this race, all the boats ran in the same category.

1982

1986

1990

1994

1998

2002

The edition 2002 of the Road of Rum was marked by the abandonment of 15 multihulls of 60 feet (on a plate of 18) because of multiple upsettings and break-ins caused by very hard weather conditions as of after the beginning of the race.

2006

General classification of the editions

Evolution of the results

Between 1978 and 2006, the improvement of the time carried out by the winner is considerable: it was divided by three. That is mainly had with the improvement of materials and the systems of weather forecasting.

Podiums out of Monoshells 60 feet

The podiums classifies 2 Multihulls of them 50 feet

The race and regulation

One can note that this race (just like the Vendée Globe), from the fact that it is held as a recluse over a very long time, is contrary with the payment to prevent the boardings at sea, cf regulates 5: Any ship must permanently ensure a visual and auditive day before suitable, by also using all the means available which are adapted to the existing circumstances and conditions, so as to allow a full appreciation of the situation and risk of boarding . The course of the race is thus derogatory.

See too

Road of Rum 2006

Water sport (veil)

External bonds

Official site Road of Rum 2006
the file of West-France.fr
the site Road of the Rum of the Banque Populaire
the official site of Roland Jourdain
the site Road of the Rum of Franck Cammas
Point of view of a sailor on the road of Rum

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