The IMA Mediterranean Maxi OFFSHORE Challenge 2024/2025

Scoring for IMA Mediterranean Offshore Challenge

Comprising the seven most prestigious offshore races in the Med, the IMA Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge aims to promote and boost maxi yacht competition offshore in the Mediterranean.

Launched by the International Maxi Association in 2016, the 2025-2026 IMA Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge will comprise 7 events, the best 3 counting towards the main prize.

2025-26 SERIES:

Rolex Middle Sea Race 2025,
starting from Valletta, Malta: Valletta, Malta to Valletta anticlockwise around Sicily via the Strait of Messina, Stromboli, Favignana, Pantelleria and Lampedusa.
Distance: 608 miles.
Organiser: Royal Malta Yacht Club
www.rolexmiddlesearace.com

La Larga – the offshore race of PalmaVela
established in 2021 as the preliminary offshore race to PalmaVela event. It consists of 2 offshore courses (one of 225 nm: Palma-Dragonera-Ibiza and Formentera-Cabrera-Palma) and one of 165 nm (Palma-Dragonera-Tagomago-Cabrera-Palma).
Organiser: Real Club Nautico Palma
www.palmavela.com

Tre Golfi offshore race
starting from Naples, Italy, on May 17 2026: Naples to Capri, via Ponza and Li Galli (Italy).
Distance: 170 miles.
Organiser: Circolo del Remo e Vela Italia (CRVI) with Yacht Club Italiano
www.tregolfisailingweek.com

151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar
Race course: Livorno to Punta Ala - via Giraglia rock and Formiche di Grosseto.
Distance: 151 miles.
Organiser: Yacht Club Punta Ala, Yacht Club Livorno, Yacht Club Repubblica Marinara di Pisa
www.151miglia.it

Giraglia offshore race
starting on June 17th 2026 from Saint-Tropez, France.
Organiser: Yacht Club Italiano.
www.rolexgiraglia.com

Aegean 600
a 600 nm offshore race starting and finishing in Sounio, Greece.
Race course: START (Sounio) – Milos island to port – Gate at Santorini Caldera – Kassos, Karpathos and Rhodos islands to port – Kandelousa to starboard – Kos to port, Kalolimnos to starboard, Farmakonissi, Agathonissi and Patmos islands to port – Gate at Mykonos and Dilos strait – Kea island to port – FINISH (Sounio).
Start on 5th July, 2026
Organiser: Hellenic Offshore Racing Club (HORC)
aegean600.com

Palermo to Montecarlo Race
starting from Palermo, Italy, TBD: from Palermo, Sicily to Monaco via a YCCS gate off Porto Cervo.
Distance: 450 miles.
Organiser: Circolo della Vela Sicilia (CVS) with Yacht Club de Monaco and Yacht Club Costa Smeralda
www.palermomontecarlo.it

Notes:

Only IMA members are eligible to the IMA Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge (MMOC);
To be eligible for the annual trophy, yachts must compete in at least 3 of these events. If more than the minimum number of events required are sailed, the worst result will be discarded;
A Perpetual Trophy will be awarded to the winner of the Challenge at the end of the season, usually during the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in Porto Cervo.

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