Mini Transat 1977

Challenge for Muscadet by APM

Mini Transat 1977

Challenge for Muscadet by APM

for Individual sailors only

The aim of this challenge is to retrace the route of the 1977 Mini-Transat race, the very first edition: a 2604 nm sail from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Antigua (Caribbean).
 
Your goal will be to beat the time set by Jean-Luc Van Den Heede (VDH), who finished fourth in 23 days, 22 hrs 48 min on his Muscadet # 8.
 
Race rules: https://tinyurl.com/APMracesRules
 
For more informations:
 - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transat_6.50#Première_édition_1977
 - https://tinyurl.com/MT77VDH

   
Limitations Carry sufficient food and water
Sail mode All manual
Awarded badge
9 record attempts

Course

1 Start line N28° 39.08' W16° 9.25'
2 Finish line N17° 9.85' W61° 52.64'

Leaderboard

1

Mockingbird

Guillemot

Finished 2025-12-23 14:22 UTC in 13d. 1h. 43m. 45s.

2

Toffee31 - L.S.C.

MuscaToff - LSC

Finished 2025-09-17 09:32 UTC in 14d. 8h. 46m. 41s.
 

3

Foosax

Dúnedain

Finished 2025-09-09 17:20 UTC in 16d. 0h. 46m. 15s.

4

50tau

My Muscadet

Finished 2025-09-21 18:01 UTC in 16d. 3h. 36m. 9s.
 

5

Westcoast25917

My Muscadet

Finished 2025-09-10 16:25 UTC in 16d. 3h. 54m. 29s.

6

Olonnois

Le Minihic (Muscadet)

Finished 2025-09-10 09:53 UTC in 16d. 18h. 8m. 10s.

7

Didier FV-R

Didier FV-R Muscadet III

Finished 2025-09-11 07:14 UTC in 17d. 0h. 30m. 32s.

8

PLAM

My Muscadet

Finished 2025-10-23 12:07 UTC in 21d. 3h. 33m. 25s.

9

SnowJoe

My Muscadet

Finished 2025-10-21 15:14 UTC in 21d. 13h. 10m. 32s.
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