The participants of the Grand Prix of the Atlantic prepare the Marina Rubicon race to the Marina du Marin in Martinique

The participants in the tenth edition of the Grand Prix of the Atlantic already complete the preparations for the Atlantic crossing that will begin on January 10 with the departure of Marina Rubicón, on the Canary Island of Lanzarote to the Marina du Marin on the Caribbean island of Martinique. Some have already planned to start the link trip from the Peninsula to Lanzarote, from the next few days.

One of the new developments highlighted in this edition is the compulsory passage of the fleet to take the Mindelo channel, in the islands of Cape Verde, which will force the crews to go down from Lanzarote to this Atlantic latitude, to take the alisios towards Martinica. A measure that has been very well valued by those who participate in this new edition of the great Spanish ocean race, which is covered every two years and which aims to be the Spanish amateur race that crosses the Atlantic to stand out in an anti-Atlantic port.

On this occasion you will cover the known Atlantists route, such as the almerian solo navigator, Juan Antonio Martín who with his Oceanis 34 Vagabundo will make its 14 Atlantic crossing. It plans to make the link crossing, from the port of Aguadulce to Marina Rubicón in the beginning of the month. Another of those registered in this edition of the Grand Prix is the alicantine navigator Francisco Vaño, who will make his second ocean crossing, with his Westerly 41 Colomba V, will also leave in early December, leaving the Bat port of San Pedro de Pinatar.

Other usual cruises of this ocean test, which participate in this edition are the crew of the Kairós, a Bavaria 46, with Agustín Gutiérrez, Alberto Garcia, Helena Sanz and Carmen Gutiérrez, a mixed endowment (male / female paritarian) that have been sailing many miles along the Atlantic, which already participated in the 2014 edition of the Grand Prix. They also have everything ready to go, from the port of Garraf in Barcelona. It is also registered Ernesto Cortina, who participated actively in the last edition of the Grand Prix that had as arrival the island of Martinique in 2012, on board its prototype Gran Jotiti.

Inscribed for the first time in the race on this occasion is the navigator Jesus Perez, who will cover his first Atlantic on board the Amel 53 Sinead. Inscribed in the crew category, Jaume Cortes, a well-known Spanish navigator who made the return to the world on board the Bionic, will soon leave the port of Tarragona. They also have the departure in the Grand Prix the sailors in A-2 of the Leticia II, an Oceanis 411, with the couple formed by Carlos Pipino and Auxiliadora Gomez de Castro, the Spanish veteran navigator, Jorge Tubella, on board the Saliar, winner in the last edition of the Grand Prix in real time, the catamaran Limblus, a Lagoon 44 of the Galician navigator Antonio Butueira, who is already located in Marina Rubicón, the Jongert Serenity of Cocoa of Mariano Lacasa, the Loraine, with a crew of Moyssey, among others a 452, a leader of the Víctor of the Moyssey, with a.