Contact Our Team About the 2008 Artemis Transat

Welcome to Our Contact Hub

We keep the records of the 2008 edition because someone has to. The race ran from Plymouth to Boston, and the documentation around it scattered across press kits, official results sheets, and the memories of people who were there on the docks. Our job is to pull those threads together and keep them readable.

So write to us. Genuinely.

We get notes from naval architecture students chasing a specific IMOCA 60 rigging detail, from sailing clubs settling an argument about finishing order, and from family members of competitors who want to confirm a date. None of these are too small. The clearer your question, the faster we can dig out the right page from the archive and point you to it.

Below, we have split inquiries by topic. Pick whichever fits, and use the email address listed. If you are unsure, the general address always reaches a human.

General Business Inquiries

Most messages land here, and that is fine. General inquiries cover questions about the archive itself, requests to correct a record, licensing of text we have published, and anything that does not obviously belong in another bucket.

Send these to [email protected].

A few things speed up our reply. Tell us which class you are asking about, the IMOCA 60 fleet or the Class 40 fleet, since the two raced under different parameters. If your question concerns a finishing position, the results section may already hold the answer, and a quick look there often saves everyone a round of email.

Press and Media Contacts

Journalists and documentary researchers work to deadlines, so we treat these requests as time-sensitive.

Reach the media desk at [email protected]. When you write, name your outlet, your deadline, and the specific angle you are working. A request for "anything on the 2008 race" takes far longer to answer than "I need the confirmed start date and weather conditions at Plymouth."

We can supply factual confirmation of results, dates, and competitor entries drawn directly from the records we hold. What we cannot do is invent a quote or speculate about a skipper's intentions. Where our archive is silent, we will tell you it is silent rather than guess. That restraint is the whole point of keeping the thing.

Partnership Opportunities

Some of the most useful work we have done came from partnerships, not from us working alone in front of a screen.

Maritime museums, university sailing programmes, and heritage projects sometimes hold material we lack, photographs, logbooks, scanned crew lists, and we are glad to compare notes. If you maintain a collection that touches the 2008 crossing, or you run an educational programme that could use structured race data, write to [email protected].

Tell us what you hold, what you need, and the timeframe you are working within. We have run ongoing exchanges with research collaborators across multiple seasons, and the arrangements that last tend to start with a clear, modest proposal rather than a grand one. Read our About the Archive page first if you want a sense of how we work before you reach out.

Our Archive Team

A small team keeps this record current. We are not a large institution, and we do not pretend to be. What we offer is careful, sourced documentation of one race, checked against the materials we can verify.

If you are not sure who to write to, that is genuinely fine, send your note to [email protected] and we will route it internally. Replies usually take a few working days; deeper archival requests, the kind that need someone to pull and read original documents, take longer, and we would rather answer well than fast.

For how we handle the information you send us, see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We read every message that comes in. Ask us something real.