Race Partnerships
Vendée Globe
ADRENA has been an Official provider of the Vendée Globe since the 2016-2017 edition. This collaboration allows it to be associated with an event that shares its values: excellence, passion, and pushing oneself beyond one's limits.
As in the last edition, ADRENA is proud to equip 100% of the boats in the fleet.
As an Official Provider, ADRENA also equips the Race Management team to illustrate and facilitate briefings, evaluate rankings, and track arrival times. Furthermore, with safety being a key concern for the organization, ADRENA assists by continuously monitoring competitors and detecting anomalies such as divergent trajectories or abnormal speeds.
ADRENA also creates real synergy between the racers and the organizing team: racers are informed of ice positions, waypoints to be observed, and any other events that may impact the race.
Nicknamed the Everest of the seas, the Vendée Globe is currently the only solo, non-stop, unassisted sailing race around the world. In November 1989, thirteen sailors set off on the very first Vendée Globe, which lasted more than three months. Only seven of them made it back to Les Sables d'Olonne.
This legendary race has crowned some of the greatest sailors: Titouan Lamazou, Alain Gautier, Christophe Auguin, Vincent Riou, François Gabart, and Armel Le Cleac'h. Only one has won it twice: Michel Desjoyeaux, in 2001 and 2009.
2024-2025 was a record-breaking edition in terms of the number of participants (40), spectators (2.45 million), and social media followers (1.6 million). But it was out at sea, after a relentless battle at every level, that the records were broken, notably that of the winner: Charlie Dalin (MACIF Santé Prévoyance), who set a new record for the event (64 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes, and 49 seconds).
Transat Café L'Or
Adrena is the Official provider of this famous race, whose transoceanic route from north to south (Le Havre – Martinique) is more demanding than a simple east-west transatlantic crossing. It requires skippers to have sharp tactical and strategic skills, a good knowledge of meteorology, and excellent physical condition to maintain a steady speed in the trade winds.
The TRANSAT CAFÉ L'OR Le Havre Normandie is a coffee destination, a double transatlantic race, 4 classes, 4 routes, 4 winning duos.
Adrena equips the Race Management with its navigation software, connecting racers with the organizing team. Thanks to common tools, it also enhances safety at sea.
OC Sport Pen Duick
OC Sport Pen Duick is the French subsidiary of the OC Sport group, which is responsible for offshore racing events. Created to manage the sporting campaigns of Eric Tabarly and Dame Ellen MacArthur, two iconic international sport figures, the group faithfully perpetuates the spirit and values that inspired these pioneering founders: to live and share unique experiences with the public, athletes, and partners.
With a long history of involvement in ocean racing, the group has developed unique expertise in professional sailing, drawing on its dual expertise in team management and the organization of the most prestigious races (La Route du Rhum - Destination Guadeloupe, ARKEA ULTIM CHALLENGE - Brest, The Transat CIC, La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec, la Transat Paprec, Le Tour de Belle-île,…) OC Sport Pen Duick is a company belonging to the Télégramme Group.
Globe 40
Adrena is the Official provider of Sirius Events, organizer of GLOBE40, the second edition of the Class40 round-the-world race, the brand new CIC MED CHANNEL RACE, and the CIC NORMANDY CHANNEL RACE.
From August 31st, the start date of the prologue from Lorient to Cadiz, to the end of April 2026, competitors in the second edition of the GLOBE40 will have to cover more than 30,000 miles in six stages and a prologue.
For the race management team, both in terms of preparation and running the events, the performance of the route and course calculation software is essential. At sea, it determines the performance of the skippers, while on land it is a key tool for planning the event, ensuring high-quality monitoring and therefore safety.
Transquadra
This legendary race was created in 1984 to mark the 450th anniversary of the first voyage by Jacques Cartier, the navigator from Saint-Malo. Every four years, this non-stop transatlantic crewed race brings together professional ocean racers in multihull and monohull sailboats.
Transat New York – Vendée/Les Sables d'Olonne
The Final Showdown before the Vendée Globe
ADRENA is the Official Supplier of the Transat New York – Vendée, a solo ocean race exclusively open to 60-foot IMOCA monohulls.
Just a few months before the Vendée Globe, the skippers are taking on one last major challenge — a solo, non-stop, and unassisted transatlantic crossing.
As the final qualifying event, this race will allow them to add their last precious miles to the tally before the great adventure begins.
Mini Transat
The Boulangère Mini Transat is not just a simple transatlantic race. It is a return to the roots of sailing, a snub to ubiquitous technology, and probably the only sailing competition in the world where the skippers have no connection to land.
One journey, two stages, a thousand emotions!
As an Official provider, we provide official race support boats with Adrena licenses for race tracking. An added bonus in terms of safety.
Training centers
Pôle Finistère Course au Large
The Pôle Finistère Course au Large’s mission is to train and support elite athletes in the field of offshore racing.
The Center welcomes around twenty high-level athletes to provide them with initial training. It is also a training and excellence center for sailors preparing for the Route du Rhum or the Vendée Globe. Suitable for intensive sailing, the center has a sheltered body of water and high-capacity port facilities.
Centre Excellence Voile
Created in February 2022, the Centre Excellence Voile aims to train and support athletes in their performance projects.
Its activities are mainly focused on solo ocean racing.
This initiative is part of the rollout of economic, sporting, and event-related activities in La Rochelle and Charente-Maritime region.
Olympics French Sailing Team
An essential tool for tactical decision-making for the Olympic Games.
The French Sailing Team is using ADRENA software to create the speed polars of the various Olympic series and the weather data files (wind, current...) with a very high resolution by replaying the recorded data.
This work allows the calculation of micro-routings on the Olympic races and then defines the settings acting upon the route regarding the conditions encountered.
Skippers Bretagne CMB Espoir et Performance
The Bretagne CMB Offshore Racing Excellence Program is a professional offshore racing talent identification and training initiative launched and supported by the Brittany region and Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne.
This unique training concept aims to identify talented young sailors who have demonstrated their ability to compete at the highest level, enabling them to progress in optimal conditions and reach the pinnacle of offshore racing.
