Team Acadia USA: Mini transat 2007

What was it really like?
Read Clay's report on the last leg of the Mini Transat, "One third boredom, one third euphoria and one third terror." Now revised for the non-technical!

Clay Reports via Onboard Videocam with a hair-raising account of a near miss on the way to Funchal

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The Transat 650 Bulletpoints by roving reporter Frank Gibney

The Finish is Near with only a few hundred miles to go, many boats lose their GPS beacons.

Report from Team Acadia The final leg, with photos...

Report from Funchal John Groton writes on the departure...

The Legend of Horta's Wall Will Clay exercise his artistic talent?

Stonington Sailor Keeps An Even Keel Hallucinations aside, Burkhalter confident as ocean race resumes
By Joe Wojtas, The Day

He's in, he's safe and... Update from Funchal during the fleet's layover

Countdown to Belief SAIL Magazine gets inside Clay's head...

Rod's report on Team Acadia, useful tips for following the race online, and updates to the fleet.

Stonington Sailor Has Little To Go On... Clay Burkhalter Faces A 4,200-Mile Atlantic Race With 21-Foot Boat
By Joe Wojtas, The Day

Visit Jennifer Langille's photo blog at SailingWorld Online and get glimpses of the Mini Life...

These Photos and many more are available as prints from the photographer Thierry Martinez. Order online!

Video Corner
Postings from Acadia's documentary film crew Campbell & Co., and other sources

Onboard Videocam report and Racing the Open Simrad with Rod Johnstone

Sea trials in Key West

Skipper's Logs
Firsthand accounts of the trials and tribulations of a solo ocean racer.

Mini Pavois to Pornichet
Two qualifying races in the notorious Bay of Biscay challenge man and boat at the top of the fleet.

Spring Training in Florida
From the wilds of Key West to starring roles in a documentary film, Clay and Acadia get in shape.

Acadia places 7th in Trophée Marie-Agnès Péron
Clay recounts the harrowing and surprising 200-mile, 70 boat solo race

In Mini Fastnet, Acadia Qualifies for Azores solo race Challenging double hander around infamous Fastnet Rock completes 90% of the qualification trials.

Dismasted during the Les Sables - Azores race, Acadia crosses the finish line
"I watch in complete amazement as sails, rigging and pieces of carbon fill my whole view; 2/3rds of the mast, the spinnaker, jib, and most of the main are now in the water, forward on the leeward side..."

NOTICES FROM TEAM ACADIA

JUST THE FACTS:

Clay is only the fifth American ever to complete in the race (7 have entered, 2 did not finish)

Alex Mevay was the 6th.

Acadia was the first US design to enter the race since 1979 (the second running of the race.)

Clay posted the best US finish (12th) since 1979, when Norton Smith, on American Express, designed by Tom Wylie from California, d 1st.

Read John Groton's account of the departure from Funchal.

Read SAIL Magazine's wonderful article on Clay, "Countdown to Belief" and The Day's interview with Clay in Funchal.

Team Acadia Partners with the Ocean Technology Foundation OTF, a 501(C)(3) organization, is providing administrative and technical support during the project. Your donation is completely tax-deductible.

Photo Albums
From laying the hull to final preparations in France, Clay's journey in pictures.

VISIT JENNIFER LANGILLE'S PHOTO POSTS @ SAILINGWORLD

SLIDE SHOW: CLAY AND ROD IN L'ORIENT (PDF 3.O Mb)

SEE ACADIA BEING BUILT, LAUNCHED AND SEA TRIALED

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