The Transat Québec–Saint-Malo is a sailing transoceanic race taking place every four years, from Quebec City, Canada, to Saint-Malo, France. The first edition, in 1984, was organized to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Jacques Cartier's voyage from Saint-Malo to Quebec. The race is opened to crewed monohulls and multihulls of 40, 50 and 60 feet.
It has two particularities: It is the only west-to-east transatlantic race at this level, and it starts by going down the Saint Lawrence River for roughly 12% of its length or 376 nmi, and approximately 2,311 nmi in a straight line course from Saint Pierre Island to Saint Malo and almost 3,000 nmi when calculating for a great circle route.
In 2016 a new course record of 6 days, 1 hour and 17 minutes was set by Spindrift 2 skippered by :fr:Yann Guichard and Donna Bertarelli. This new time beats by almost 2 days the previous course record held by Loïck Peyron for 20 years.
1984 Loïc Caradec on Royale in 8 d 19 h 57 min Pierre Follenfant on Charente-Maritime in 8 d 20 h 13 min Philippe Poupon on Fleury Michon in 9 d 15 h 59 min
1988 Serge Madec on Jet Services in 7 d 21 h 35 min Loïck Peyron on Lada Poch in 10 d 23 h 40 min Bruno Peyron on VSD Paca in 10 d 23 h 58 min
1992 Laurent Bourgnon on Primagaz in 8 d 5 h 49 min. Florence Arthaud on Groupe Pierre 1er in 8 d 7 h 17 min Paul Vatine on Haute-Normandie in 9 d 14 h 18 min
1996 Loïck Peyron on Fujicolor II in 7 d 20 h 24 min Francis Joyon on Banque Populaire in 7 d 23 h 28 min Paul Vatine on Région Haute-Normandie in 8 d 0 h 31 min
2000 Franck Cammas on Groupama in 9 d 23 h 16 min Marc Guillemot on Biscuits La Trinitaine in 9 d 23 h 26 min Yvan Bourgnon on Bayer en France in 9 d 23 h 43 min
2004 Karine Fauconnier on Sergio Tacchini in 7 d 21 h 00 min Franck Cammas on Groupama in 7 d 21 h 59 min Michel Desjoyeaux on Géant in 7 d 22 h 01 min
2008 Classe 50 feet Open (Multi50) : Franck-Yves Escoffier on Crêpes Whaou! in 11 d 3 h 19 min Pierre Antoine on Imagine Hervé Cléris on Prince de Bretagne Class40 : Halvard Mabire on Pogo Structures Oliver Krauss on Mistral Loisirs - Pôle santé Elior Tanguy de Lamotte on NOVEDIA Group - S.E.T. environnement FICO : Christophe Bullens on An Ocean of Smiles Yannick Bestaven on Cervin ENR Denis Douillez on Saint Malo Team
2012
Mono Class 40
Pos.Quebec-St Malo 2012 Official results BoatCrewTimeRef. Sail No. Name Year Name Finish Time Elapsed DistanceSailed Speed 1 Campagne de France & 03/08/2012 10:50 11d 17h 30m 3028,2 10,18 2 Mare 03/08/2012 12:21 11d 19h 1m 3094,5 10,13 3 Eole Generation - GDF-SUEZ 03/08/2012 16:04 12d 0h 44m 43s 3098,9 9,93 4 Geodis & 03/08/2012 17:52 12d 2h 32m 50s 3036,2 9,87 5 Roaring forty 2 03/08/2012 22:13 12d 4h 53m 8s 3043,8 9,79 6 Comiris-Elior 03/08/2012 23:04 12d 5h 44m 5s 3063,7 9,76 7 IXBlue 03/08/2012 23:07 12d 5h 47m 50s 3036,8 9,76 8 Jack in the box 04/08/2012 05:08 12d 11h 48m 58s 3102,1 9,56 9 Groupe Picoty 04/08/2012 07:04 12d 13h 44m 27s 3071,1 9,50 10 Red 04/08/2012 07:56 12d 14h 36m 2s 3033,6 9,47 11 Partouche 04/08/2012 08:25 12d 15h 5m 33s 3087,9 9,46 12 Bodacious Dream 04/08/2012 11:11 12d 17h 51m 45s 3074,8 9,37 13 Sevenstar Yachttransport 04/08/2012 14:59 12d 21h 39m 06s 3046 9,26 14 Latitude Neige / Longitude Mer 04/08/2012 15:32 12d 22h 12m 13s 3054 9,24 15 EDF Energies Nouvelles 05/08/2012 03:44 13d 10h 24m 25s 3047 9,45 16 Bleu 05/08/2012 07:20 13d 14h 00m 08s 3111 8,79 17 Transport COHERENCE 05/08/2012 10:44 13d 17h 24m 02s 3037 8,70 18 Avis immobilier 05/08/2012 12:17 13d 18h 57m 11s 3060 8,66 19 Proximedia 05/08/2012 22:57 14d 05h 37m 09s 3047 8,39 20 Persévérance 06/08/2012 16:45 14d 23h 25m 37s 3031 7,97
Open
Pos.BoatCrewTimeRef. Sail No. Name Year Name Finish Time Elapsed DistanceSailed Speed 1 Multi50 FenêtréA Cardinal 3 01/08/2012 01:56 9d 14h 21m 5s 3287,6 12,59 2 Multi60 Défi Saint-Malo Agglo 02/08/2012 14:09 11d 2h 34m 4s 3224,3 10,88 3 Multi50 Vers un Monde sans SIDA 02/08/2012 14:30 11d 2h 55m 23s 3159,6 10,86 4 Mono50 Vento di Sardegna* 03/08/2012 02:35 11d 15h 0m 59s 3086,9 10,39 5 Mono65 Océan Phénix 05/08/2012 14:36 14d 03h 1m 16s 3124 8,55
2016
2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.
2024
References
External links
Transat Quebec-Saint-Malo official site Transat Quebec-Saint-Malo organization changes