RÉGATES ROYALES – TROPHÉE PANERAI is going to celebrate its 38th anniversary in September. Moored along the quai Laubeuf, just opposite the world-famous Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in France.
RÉGATES ROYALES – TROPHÉE PANERAI is going to celebrate its 38th anniversary in September. Moored along the quai Laubeuf, just opposite the world-famous Palais des Festivals et des Congrès in France. The regatta is sponsored by Italian luxury watch brand Panerai. The Dragons will animate the bay of Cannes in the regatta, featuring some 50 crews coming from over 10 different countries: Russia, Finland, the UK, Ukraine, Switzerland, Germany, Scandinavia and France.
For the rest of the classics, divided into seven classes according to size, age and rig, the event offers five full days of racing off the Lérins islands. The highlights of the competing fleet include the majestic Elena (55 metres, design by Nathanaël Herreshoff), Cambria (40 metres, design by William Fife), Moonbeam of Fife (31 metres, design by William Fife). This year some yachts will also celebrate key anniversaries such as 110 years for Eva (17,50 metres, design by William Fife in 1906), the centenary for New York 40s, Rowdy and Chinook (19,87 metres, design by Nathanaël Herreshoff in 1916), 90 years for Hallowe’en (24,75 metres, design by William Fife) and 80 for Eilean (22,20 metres, design by William Fife)
The regatta is one of the oldest inshore races in the Mediterranean, the debut event being held in 1929 to honour King Christian X of Denmark. The hosting Yacht Club de Cannes is also one of the most venerable in France, as it was founded in the spring of 1859 when Messieurs Béchard, Tripet-Skrypitzone, de Colquhoum and Bucquet created the Société des Régates and organised the first race in the Napoule Bay for yachts like Léro, Olga, Jeannette and Touriste but open also to small sailing and rowing boats owned by local sailors and fishermen.
The Régates Royales de Cannes is also the last event of the Trophée Panerai, which pays tribute to elegance with a special award that has been presented for the first time in 2015 to the sloop Serenade, designed by Nicolas Potter from 1938 and skippered by British Hugues Boullenger.
The design of four Panerai watches in Blue Dial - PAM00688, 689, 690, 659 - are inspired by this regatta and were released during the occasion of Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge.
