Aina Bauza wins the Cap Pour Elles 2025 scholarship to participate in the Transat Café l’Or.

Aina Bauza has been selected for the prestigious Cap Pour Elles 2025 scholarship to compete in the Transat Café l’Or, one of the most demanding transatlantic races aboard a Class40.

The team formed by Aina Bauza and Caroline Boule was the most voted by the public, receiving over 1,900 votes on YouTube, and also had the support of the scholarship jury, which recognized their talent, determination, and trajectory in ocean sailing.

Aina’s campaign to obtain this scholarship has received great media support, with coverage onTVE 1, la Cope, Forbes, Diario de Mallorca , and Última Hora, helping to raise awareness of her project and strengthen her candidacy.

With this initiative, the Transat Café l’Or organization aims to provide financial and sporting support to women in their ocean racing careers. This represents a significant opportunity, as only two women are selected each year to receive this support and compete in one of the toughest races on the circuit.

Aina is still looking for sponsors

With this opportunity, Aina embarks on a new challenge towards the Transat Café l’Or 2025, for which there is still a long road ahead in terms of training, preparation, and sponsorship, as the scholarship only finances part of the project.

The Team

Aina will not face this challenge alone. She is teaming up with Caroline Boule, with whom she shares a story of friendship and sailing that began in 2021 at Lake Garda, during the International Moth World Championship. Since then, both have followed parallel paths in the Mini 6.50 class, and today, they hold transatlantic world records:

• Caroline Boule made history on July 24, 2024, by breaking the 24-hour Mini record, sailing 322.7 nautical miles under the Nicomatic flag.
• Aina Bauza became the first person in Spain to set a solo sailing world record in 2024, after completing 8,300 km across the Atlantic in 30 days.

Both share the same dream: to sail solo around the world. But to get there, they need a long training process on bigger and faster boats, and the Transat Café l’Or 2025 is the perfect opportunity to take flight aboard the Class40.