The navigator Marc Thiercelin signs, on 6 October 2005 in Paris, the official poster of the Jacques Vabre Transatlantic sailing contest. The double-handed race for 50- and 60-foot monohull and multihull yachts starts 5-6 November 2005 from Le Havre, France, finishing in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil, some 4340 nautical miles away.