Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Since the 1990s, the fleet in the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup has nearly doubled thanks to the addition of Wally yachts.
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Special Report: Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup The gleaming, fluorescent-green topsides of the superyacht Inouï may scream luxury at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup starting on Sunday.
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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Every September for much of the past decade, Sir Peter Ogden of Britain has competed at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in the emerald waters off Porto Cervo, Sardinia.
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The first was a 50-footer; the last, Kialoa V, was an 80-foot maxi yacht.
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Gianfranco Alberini was one of the early commodores of Costa Smeralda and helped create what is now the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup.
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That was around the time of the creation of two important world championships: the Maxi Yacht world championship and the Swan World Cup.
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But it was as a yachtsman that he drew international attention, captaining teams that won five Maxi Yacht World Championships from 1981 to 1987.
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Lacorte, a veteran of three Maxi Yacht Rolex Cups, knows speed and has proved it twice to win the overall Mini Maxi Racer Cruiser division.
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Ingram, 68, will be visiting one of his 22 charges, the 115-foot superyacht Nikata, next week at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo, Sardinia.
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With more than 700 members, the club offers a luxury playground for competitive sailors and hosts the annual Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, which Bonadeo won in 1995 and 2000.
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In many ways, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup sailing is what the America's Cup used to be — wealthy sailors racing each other in giant monohull sailboats for bragging rights.
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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup High-tech multihull sailboats driven by paid professionals may grab the headlines these days, but the world's largest monohull sailboats racing offshore are still turning heads.
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At this year's Les Voiles de St. Barth, he helps with midship duties on board the owner and skipper Hap Fauth's fourth edition of Bella Mente, a 72-foot Maxi yacht.
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Special Report: Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup It was clear at the prize-giving ceremony that King Juan Carlos I of Spain was elated when his team won the Sardinia Cup in 2004.
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Many sailors adhere to the tradition of wearing dark blazers and ties emblazoned with burgees and boat logos, the same style as in 1980, when the club hosted the first Maxi Yacht World Championship.
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As host to the annual Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, along with the Swan Cup, the club has a track record of courting top-shelf sponsors to its sailing events for its well-heeled members.
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For this month's Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, owners pay a high price to race for these diminutive trophies and a Rolex watch that they could more easily buy from a store down the street from the club.
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Comanche, a 100-foot super maxi yacht with an innovative design and unusually wide beam, was built in 2014 to break speed records and (in a nod to Hinze-Clark's roots) to take line honors in the Hobart race.
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One of their masterpieces is LDV Comanche, the record-breaking 100-foot super maxi yacht that is again one of the big favorites to win the Sydney Hobart Race, this time under its very new owner, Jim Cooney of Australia.
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"Those other boats will be out on the water looking to fight," said Roberto Lacorte, 50, of Pisa, Italy, who will be defending his title at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup hosted by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, next week.
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"The sheer size of the boats alone is really impressive," said Rob Weiland, a race manager for the Maxi 21 sailboats, one of seven classes of boats competing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup hosted by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda in Sardinia, starting Sunday.
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Special Report: Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup Nigel Ingram was once a typical yacht captain of the 1970s and '80s, delivering racing boats throughout the United States and Europe with pickup crews and pushing 40- to 60-foot yachts across starting lines and race courses throughout the Atlantic.
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Though many of the professional crews on the maxis have raced for prize money in the growing number of professional sailing series around the world, this maxi yacht event represents one of the few elite regattas in which there are no team sponsorships and no big check at the finish.
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The yacht's name is bound to the following international trophies: Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2002 (2nd classified), Vele d'Epoca di Imperia Trofeo Prada 2002 (1st classified), Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2003 (1st classified), Vele d'Epoca di Imperia Trofeo Prada 2004 (1st classified), Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2005 (2nd classified), Vele d'Epoca di Imperia Trofeo Panerai 2006 (3rd classified), Cannes Régates Royales 2015 (2nd classified), TAG Heur VELA Cup 2016 and 2017 (1st classified).
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Nicorette (also known as Charles Jourdan, Royal Blue) is a maxi yacht designed by Guy Ribadeau-Dumas and built by MAG-Nordhal Mabire.
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Perpetual LOYAL is a maxi yacht. She won the 2016 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race skippered by Tom Slingsby and is owned by Anthony Bell.
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In 2002, Alfa Romeo I, the first Alfa Romeo super maxi yacht was launched. It finished first in at least 74 races including the 2002 Sydney—Hobart Race.
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Skandia (rechristened Wild Thing) is a 98 ft maxi yacht built in 2003. She was designed by Don Jones. She won line hours in the 2003 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race skippered by Grant Wharington.
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Drum is a maxi yacht owned by Scottish car sales group Arnold Clark Automobiles, formerly co-owned by lead singer of Duran Duran Simon Le Bon who was rescued from the vessel while competing in 1985 Fastnet Race.
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Alfa Romeo III interior photos. Rated as an IRC Mini Maxi, she displaces about . The IRC Mini Maxi division accommodates yachts between LOA. In September 2008, she was twice first to finish in Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup competition, with Torben Grael skippering.
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The Maxi yacht "Wizard" finished the 2014 race in 11:38:34 making it first mono- hull. The fleet experienced seas of up to 8 feet as well as a heavy rain shower approx. 4 am, Saturday morning making the race a rather wet one.
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The first several "Akitio Challenge" events caught the attention of the national news media when participation was promoted through a lottery prize draw for a ten-day luxury cruising vacation on the famous ex-maxi yacht, Condor of Bermuda; to be taken anywhere in the South Pacific.
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Fitzgibbons (far right) aboard super-maxi yacht Perpetual Loyal Sally Fitzgibbons (born 19 December 1990) is an Australian professional surfer on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour (2009–2013). In June 2019, she was ranked No. 1 in the world for women's surfing after winning the Rio Pro.
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Wild Oats XI is a maxi yacht, most famous for being the former race record holder and a nine-times line honours winner of the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race. Launched in 2005, she was owned by Bob Oatley (Oatley's estate since his passing in 2016) and skippered by New South Wales Mark Richards, who founded Palm Beach Yachts Australia.
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Nicorette III is a 90ft maxi yacht. The yacht was designed by Alexander Simonis & Marten Voogd and built in New Zealand by Boatspeed Performance Sailcraft. She won line honours in the 2004 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race skippered by Ludde Ingvall. In 2016 she was completely rebuilt at Southern Ocean Marine to a new design by naval architect Brett Bakewell-White which extended her hull to 98ft.
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Alfa Romeo I (formerly Shockwave, Rambler, currently La Bête) is a fixed keel maxi yacht, launched 2002, which placed first in the 2002 Sydney-Hobart race and the 2003 Giraglia Rolex cup regatta. She was designed by Reichel/Pugh, and built by McConaghy Boats, Sydney, Australia using carbon fibre composite construction. Southern Spars of Auckland, New Zealand built her mast. She has a fixed bulb keel.
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In 1963, Bob Clifford was awarded the apprentice of the year award for printing. He began his boat-building business in his backyard before expanding it to a commercial operation. Eventually he went into partnership with Philip Hercus, who helped him expand Incat into a serious shipbuilding operation. In 1994, Clifford skippered his maxi yacht Tasmania to line honours victory in the 50th anniversary Sydney to Hobart yacht race.
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Clark bought the Maxi yacht Drum in 1988. The 78 foot craft is sailed with a crew of 22. That year, Clark led the annual Tobermory race, before Drum was involved in a collision with a Royal Navy submarine, around five miles off the Mull of Kintyre. He loaned it back to Simon Le Bon in 2005 and the yacht was often loaned to other organisations to raise money for charitable work.
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Comanche is a 100 ft (33 m) maxi yacht. She was designed in France by VPLP and Guillaume Verdier and built in the United States by Hodgdon Yachts for Dr. James H. Clark and christened as Comanche. Comanche holds the 24-hour sailing record for monohullsWSSR 253 covering 618 nmi in the 24 hours (averaging ). Comanche won line honours in the 2015 Fastnet race and the 2015 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.
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Kialoa IV in 2010. Kialoa V was a Germán Frers designed maxi; and fierce competitor to Condor, Nirvana, and Sovereign. Kialoa IV and Kialoa V were World Maxi Yacht champions 5 of the 8 years they raced from 1981-1989. Race wins include: Onion Patch, Transpacific, Queen's Cup, Tasman Sea, Hawaii, Block Island, Sardinia Cup, S.O.R.C. (Southern Ocean Racing Circuit), Kenwood Cup, San Francisco Big Boat Series and the Maxi World Championship.
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Brindabella is a maxi yacht. It won line honours in the 1997 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race as well as breaking the race record for a conventionally ballasted yacht in 1999. Described as "Australia’s most famous maxi" and "The people's maxi". She was designed by Scott Jutson in 1993 under the IMS handicap system as a 75 foot maxi and later underwent structural changes including the addition of a bow sprit, and a "scoop" transom.
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A record number of 320 boats entered the 2011 race – the largest total since the ill- fated 1979 race (303 entries). A total of nineteen nations were represented, with the bulk of entries still from Britain and France. In 2011, the 100-foot maxi yacht Rambler 100 turtled after her keel broke off between Fastnet Rock and the Pantaenius Buoy (a temporary race mark placed southwest of the Fastnet Rock). All 21 crew were rescued safely.
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Kialoa was a maxi yacht campaign founded and led by Jim Kilroy spanning from 1956 to 1989. Kialoa I was a 50ft yacht remodeled by Kilroy, which won numerous races in California, Mexico and Hawaii. Kialoa II is a 73ft aluminum sloop designed by Sparkman and Stephens and built in California in 1964. She won races on the Eastern and Western seaboard, the Transpacific Race to Hawaii in 1965, the Transatlantic race to Ireland, the Sydney-Hobart in 1971 and many other races.
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The 1981–82 Whitbread Round the World Race was the third edition of the around-the-world sailing event Whitbread Round the World Race. On 8 August 1981, 29 boats started out from Southampton for the Whitbread Round the World Race. The maxi yacht Flyer II was designed by Germán Frers and built at the W. Huisman shipyard in 1981 for skipper Cornelius van Rietschoten. In an unusual feat, she won the race both on line honours and on handicap.
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Alfa Romeo II (rechristened Black Jack IV) is a maxi yacht designed in 2005 by Reichel/Pugh for yachtsman Neville Crichton. First-to-finish in the 2009 Transpacific Yacht Race ("the Transpac"), she also set a new elapsed-time Transpac race record This reference clearly points out that it is the boat which raced in the 2009 Transpac. The boat is actually long; its design is called a "Reichel/Pugh 100." For reference to the boat consummating the new record, see Transpac race news .
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Condor of Bermuda was a maxi yacht campaigning under the leadership and funding of London-based international businessman Bob Bell. Originally called Condor but renamed Heath's Condor for the 1977–78 Whitbread Round the World Race after Bell's association with Heath's Insurance Co (London). There is no link with former British prime minister Edward Heath of Morning Cloud yachting fame. Condor was then later renamed Condor of Bermuda, as government policy in the UK during the 1970s effectively exiled the financing of such a campaign by making the funding and domiciling of such an endeavour from the home countries a practical impossibility.
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Australia's foremost offshore sailing prize is the Tattersall's Cup, awarded to the ultimate winner of the handicap competitions based on the length, shape, weight and sail dimensions of the yacht. Much public attention however, focuses on the race for "line honours" – the first boat across the finishing line, typically the newest and largest Maxi yacht in the fleet. In 2017, LDV Comanche set a new race record finishing in 1 day, 9 hours, 15 minutes and 24 seconds, beating Perpetual Loyal's record of 1 day, 13 hours, 31 minutes and 20 seconds, set the previous year.
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Baird has also ventured into open water racing, having competed in round the world races in 1997–98 (for Innovation Kvaerner) and 2001–02 (for Djuice Dragons). As part of these offshore racing challenges, Baird was a member of the winning team in the grueling, Sydney to Hobart Race in 2000, aboard the maxi yacht, Nicorette II.Lulham, Amanda, and James Breshnehan. "Sweden Smell of Success." Hobart Mercury, 29 December 2000 As the helmsman of the Alinghi team for the 2007 America's Cup, he led the syndicate to win the series 5-2 against his former team, Team New Zealand.
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Taylor was awarded the Blue Water Medal for outstanding seamanship by the Royal Akarana Yacht Club in 1982. In the 1983 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to ocean yacht racing. For the 1985–86 Whitbread, Taylor built and skippered the 80-foot, Bruce Farr-designed, maxi yacht, NZI Enterprise (originally called Enterprise New Zealand). After finishing fourth and second on the first two legs, NZI Enterprise lost her mast 380 nautical miles south-east of the Chatham Islands, and had to withdraw from the race.
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He became a grandfather on June 6, 2018 when his daughter Saffron gave birth to a baby boy named Taro Arturo. While Duran Duran was on hiatus in 1985, Le Bon drew media attention when his maxi yacht, Drum, lost its keel and capsized during the Fastnet race, just off Falmouth, along the southern coast of Cornwall. Before being rescued, Le Bon and other crew members were trapped under the boat, inside the hull, for forty minutes. They were all rescued by the Royal Navy, using a Search and Rescue helicopter from 771 Naval Air Squadron based near Helston.
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Maximus is a 100 ft maxi yacht built by TP Cookson for Charles St. Clair Brown; The boat was designed by Greg Elliott and Clay Oliver and launched in Auckland in February 2005. For the 2005 summer sailing season in the UK, Maximus was sponsored by ICAP. She won line honours in the Fastnet Race with a time of 68 hours 2 minutes 7 seconds, though Iromiguy won on corrected time. Despite the very calm conditions, her tall rotating rigging allowed higher wind speeds some distance above the water's surface to be accessible, giving her an advantage over rivals.
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Time and again she was first across the line only to have some little 42-foot creep bring the wind from behind and beat her on corrected time. Still, Kialoa won four of her 24 SORC tests on corrected time — a remarkable showing, considering that in the same period only three other biggies out of a total of 19 won so much as one race without benefit of age allowance." Kilroy followed up with KIALOA IV and KIALOA V. A 1988 New York Times profile of maxi-yacht owners noted that "Kilroy is remarkable for his dogged participation in all phases of the sport.
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The race drew further attention from outside the sport in 1985 when the maxi yacht Drum capsized after the keel sheared off due to a design error. The boat was helmed by the New Zealander Phil Holland, brother of its designer Ron Holland. Pop star Simon Le Bon from Duran Duran, co-owner and crew member of Drum, was trapped under the hull with five other crew members for twenty minutes, until being rescued by the Royal Navy. The Search and Rescue Diver was Petty Officer Air Crewman (POACMN) Larry "Scouse" Slater of 771 Naval Air Squadron who appeared on This Is Your Life on 9 April 1986.
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ICAP Leopard 3 is a 30-metre IRC maxi yacht owned and skippered by Helical Bar plc CEO Michael Slade, who has owned maxi yachts for over 22 years. She features a canting keel, water ballast and twin daggerboards amidships. ICAP Leopard 3 holds several records for powered sailing monohulls (WSSRC rule 21c), including the transatlantic passage from Ambrose Light to Lizard Point in 2008 and Round the Island Race in 2013 (all surpassed by records for manual power monohulls set by other vessels in compliance with WSSRC rule 21b). She won line honours in the Middle Sea Race in 2009 and the Fastnet race in 2009 and 2011.
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Condor was a maxi yacht campaigning on the IOR Maxi Circuit from 1981 to approximately 1987. In 1987, she was sold to Australian Grazier Tony Paola, where she continued to race for a time under the name Condor of Currabubula until she was retired from racing, and now resides in Airlie Beach, on the Great Barrier Reef, chartering for overnight sailing adventures with several of her contemporaries for her present owners, ProSail. She still races today in Airlie Beach Race Week and Hamilton Island Race Week each year where individuals can charter a spot on board to compete in this annual events. She returned to racing in 2008.
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On 1 October 2013, Australia's Hamilton Island Yacht Club was confirmed as the "Challenger of Record" for the 35th America's Cup, after submitting their paperwork only moments after the win by Oracle Team USA. The HIYC challenge was accepted by the Golden Gate Yacht Club, who was the Defender and Trustee of the America's Cup. Australian businessman Bob Oatley, founder of Rosemount and owner of famed super maxi yacht Wild Oats XI, was confirmed to be the main financial backer of the Hamilton Island Yacht Club challenge. On 19 July 2014 Russell Coutts, Director of the America's Cup Event Authority (ACEA), announced that the Hamilton Island Yacht club had withdrawn Team Australia from the 35th America's Cup.
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Many hotel guests lamented the lack of amenities normally found at an island resort."Trouble in Paradise", Matthew Heller, Los Angeles Times, 23 October 2005 In 1980, the maxi yacht SY ran aground on the Onetahi reef, which caused it to be shipwrecked and written off by insurers. Purportedly, Brando and the owner of the yacht engaged in a brief bidding war for rights to the vessel’s polished mahogany hull (as reported by its owner in the New Zealand yachting magazine Sail in 1981), which Brando, it is believed, wanted to use as a bar at a resort he planned to build on the island. The yacht was salvaged, and sent to New Zealand for repair.
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The Custom Line 97' This maxi yacht, which is built at the Fano site, is produced by Ferretti AYT in conjunction with Zuccon International Project. The Custom Line 97’ is a planing yacht built from composite material; 29.70 meters long (roughly 97 feet, hence the name) and 7.08 meters wide, this yacht can carry up to 20 people including crew and has two different versions with either 4 or 5 passenger cabins (not including crew accommodation). The Custom Line 97’ is powered by 2 MTU 16V 2000 M93 motors with 2400 hp at 2450 revs per minute which enable it to reach a top speed of . The Custom Line 97' made its first appearance at the Genoa International Boat Show in 2006.
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A graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, Whidden has earned many accolades throughout his sailing career including Colby's "Carl Nelson Award" for Athletic Achievement in 1989, and the University Club "Man of the Year" award in 1987. In 2006, Whidden received the prestigious "A Life for Sailing" Award at the Trofeo Ermenegildo Zegna Regatta in Portofino, Italy, which is given biennially to a person who has devoted their life and career to sailing. Outside the America's Cup arena, Whidden has won the Newport-Bermuda Race (Class A) five times and has won his class at Miami SORC five times and twice overall. Additionally, he's had repeated wins on the European racing circuit, including the Palma Superyacht Regatta, Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, St Barths Bucket Regatta, and the Trofeo Zegna Regatta.
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In 1970 (with Leslie Williams) and in 1974 (with Gerry Boxall), Knox-Johnston won the two-handed Round Britain Race. Knox-Johnston, Williams and their crew, which included Peter Blake, took line honours of the 1971 Cape Town to Rio Race. Williams and Knox-Johnston jointly skippered (with Blake a crew member again) maxi yacht Heath's Condor in the 1977 Whitbread Round the World Race. They took the line honours in the second and fourth leg, the ones which Knox- Johnston skippered. Knox-Johnston and Blake (who acted as co-skippers) won the Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest circumnavigation in 1994. Their time was 74 days 22 hours 18 minutes and 22 seconds. It was their second attempt to win this prize after their first one in 1992 had to be aborted when their catamaran Enza hit an object which tore a hole in the starboard hull. From 1992 to 2001, Knox-Johnston was president of the Sail Training Association.
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