A must-attend event in classic yachting, the Régates Royales–Panerai Trophy celebrates its 38th edition from September 18 to 25 in Cannes.
Barely after the Yachting Festival closes (September 6-11), Cannes turns to the glorious years of yachting.
Moored at Quai Laubeuf opposite the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, a fleet of around fifty Dragons and an armada of nearly eighty classic yachts, some over a hundred years old, will engage in friendly competition in the Gulf of La Napoule… A spectacle combining elegance and competition.
About twenty of these metric sailboats, designed in 1949, will compete on their own course for three days (September 21-22-23) after joining the fleet of the Société Nautique de Genève, which is organizing its traditional sea regatta on Sunday, September 18, and Monday, September 19.
For all the others, five days of regattas off the coast of the Lérins Islands, with a fleet divided into seven categories based on the size, age, and rigging of the sailboats. An exceptional gathering as the biggest and most famous yachts of the last century return to battle it out.
The Régates Royales de Cannes is also the last annual meeting of the Panerai Trophy, a true world championship of classic yachting, and an occasion to celebrate elegance, which was awarded last year for the inaugural edition of this prestigious trophy to the sloop Serenade, a 1938 design by Nicolas Potter helmed by the Briton Hugues Boullenger.
