As boats continue to arrive in Lorient, the final results of the sixth edition of the DRHEAM-CUP/GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE are taking shape, particularly for the fleets whose rankings are determined on corrected time. This is particularly true of the Multi 2000s, who have almost all finished today, Wednesday. The seventh and final boat still at sea, the trimaran Adamas (Vincent Willemart) is expected to arrive this evening with Minor Swing taking the overall victory.

Crossing the finish line in third place at 11:36, Didier Bouillard’s Dazcat 1295 has taken his revenge, after coming second in the previous edition: “Two years ago, we didn’t yet know what to expect, as it was one of our first races on the boat; we finished second nine minutes behind the winner, which wasn’t much over four days, so we’d told ourselves we would be back – if possible, to win.” "We've done it, even though we’re still waiting for the jury", says the skipper, who was sailing with his son Romain (runner-up in the 2025 Transat Paprec), and in charge of navigation.

“It was a tough, intense race,” he adds. For the first two or three days, we really took a hit, sailing downwind in heavy weather, and we haven’t yet dared to push the catamaran to its absolute limits. On the other hand, we made some pretty good strategic decisions that allowed us to make a comeback in the second half, we really did well in the light winds, which enabled us to win this second DRHEAM-CUP – we’re delighted." His father has promised to return in two years’ time “because we want to join the select few that have won several times!”

Also in the Multi 2000 class, another sailor is hoping to come back in two years’ time: the unbreakable Charlie Capelle, a regular on the DRHEAM-CUP/GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE since its first edition in 2016, who said, after crossing the line in fifth place at 13:17 (sailing double-handed with Pierre Antoine): “It was a lovely course and a good test run for the next race coming up in November  (the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe). We’ve covered almost a quarter of a transatlantic crossing – over 700 miles – in a wide variety of weather conditions. We had a good battle with an English catamaran ahead of us (DMS Vinyl) and with Aile Bleue (Laurent Etheimer), a boat very similar to mine – it was a great race.”

There are still some great races to come in all the series taking part in the DRHEAM-CUP/GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE DE COURSE AU LARGE, some of which will be decided in the coming hours. It is the case in the IRC double class, with a thrilling three-way battle between the JPK 1010 ‘Abracadabra soutient Don Bosco’ (Alban Mesnil/Jérôme Aubert), the Figaro 2 Auremat (Giulio di Gennaro/Pierre-Emmanuel Dubois) and the 42-foot Dutch yacht Karma (Rogier Van Overveld/Marteen Jaan Reijnders), as well as in Class40, Corentin Douguet (SNSM Faites un don !) still leading the fleet as it heads upwind from Rochebonne towards Lorient, with Guillaume Pirouelle (Seafrigo-Sogestran), Luca Rosetti (Maccaferi Futura) and Achille Nebout (Amarris) hot on his heels.

In the Vintage Multi class, Halvard Mabire (GDD) crossed the Rochebonne mark in the lead late in the afternoon, whilst Tanguy Caradec (Eurvad) pulled clear at the front of the Vintage Mono class. Finally, it is worth noting that the IMOCA April Marine-Tahiti Déménage Tout, skippered by Arnaud Boissières, finished on Wednesday at 16:00, whilst Resilient, with Pierre-Louis Attwell sailing solo to secure his qualification for the Route du Rhum, will no doubt arrive in Lorient overnight.