Dur­ing the night, Novem­ber 5 to 6, 2025, Franck Cam­mas and Tom Laperche won the Transat Café L’Or (for­mer­ly the Transat Jacques-Vabre Tro­phy) in the cat­e­go­ry “Ultim”.

The two skip­pers crossed the Atlantic from Le Havre in 10 days, 13 hours and 3 min­utes! The two sailors mas­tered the chal­lenge from start to fin­ish and gave their spon­sor SVR-Lazar­tigue its first major vic­to­ry, which it had been vying since 2021. At the helm of this opti­mised and sophis­ti­cat­ed mul­ti­hull boat, 28-year-old Tom Laperche once again and with panache proved that he is one of the lead­ing sailors. Crowned Open Bic world cham­pi­on, a com­pe­ti­tion on small dinghies, at the age of 11, Tom made his first Atlantic cross­ing at the age of 13, accom­pa­nied by his father Philippe.

A grad­u­ate from UTC, major­ing in mechan­i­cal engi­neer­ing, this top-lev­el sail­ing ath­lete joined the SVR-Lazar­tigue Tri­maran pro­gramme almost from its incep­tion. He was able to fol­low at UITCV-Com­pieg­ne the elite sports pro­gramme, which allowed him to arrange his sched­ule so that he could con­tin­ue sail­ing dur­ing his studies.

On Novem­ber 7, 2021, just three months after its launch, François Gabart, anoth­er renowned sailor, set off on the Transat Jacques Vabre along­side this tal­ent­ed co-skip­per. After more than six­teen days of rac­ing and a fierce bat­tle, the two pro­fes­sion­als final­ly achieved the feat of tak­ing sec­ond place in this his­toric transat­lantic race. ‘Yes, we came sec­ond, so we weren’t far off being vic­to­ri­ous,’ admits Tom Laperche, who says he is now ‘very hap­py’ and ‘filled with of emo­tion’ after this great vic­to­ry in the Transat Café L’Or.

He will now focus on 2026, con­tin­u­ing to improve and devel­op the boat, the main objec­tive being the Route du Rhum Race (from Saint Malo to Guade­loupe), which will take place in Novem­ber 2026.

KD