::: RESULTS UPDATE :::
Mariska, Duet and Leonore were among the winners at this years Les Voile D’Antibes. With the breeze seldom rising above 8 knots it was a regatta for the lightest of each class and a rush to the finish for the heavier
displacement yachts before the finishing line retired to the Panerai lounge.
See images from the racing here:
Photos from Les Voiles D’Antibes 2013
A full list of results can be found at:
http://www.voilesdantibes.com/resultats
::: ORIGINAL POST :::
The first major classic regatta in the Mediterranean season this year, the 18th edition of Les Voiles D’Antibes is expecting to push the Economic Crisis critics aside with their largest attendance to date of 70 boats(well up from their previous best of 56). The range and variety of vessels planning on being stern to the Vieux Port walls will be a sight for salty eyes with the 41 metre (134 ft) Herreshoff schooner ‘Eleanora’ sizing up against six Fife designs in the Big Boat Class. The usual suspects: Cambria, Mariquita, Mariska and the Moonbeams(III & IV) are back from this long winter to be dazzled in sun and sea.
At the other end of the gleaming teak dock the 7 metre (23 ft) 1954 Tord Sunden sloop, Mushanga, will be vying for space on the line of the 18-strong Classique Marconi fleet. Furthermore the Epoque Marconi startline will have a competitive 25 entries. Yawls, Ketchs and sloops make up the class from an array of designers including Olin Stephens, Nathaniel Herreshoff and William Burgess to Johan Anker, Knud Reimers, Charles Nicholson and William Fife, to name but a few!
The newly restored 1916 Herreshoff ‘Chinook’ is on her way up from Tunisia, currently in Ajaccio for her debut. She is a New York 40, a sister ship to ‘Rowdy’, but rigged in her original fashion with a gaff mainsail. One to watch both on and off the race course.
Italian ‘Watchmaker Laboratory’ Officine Panerai are back to host the show and are graced by a fine selection of classic craft and their sailors that range from all over the world. From the charismatic ‘Kelpie’, the Breton ‘Oriole’, and the lovely ‘Lulu’ to the Presidential ‘Manitou’, Panerai’s own ‘Eilean’ and the beautiful Hallowe’en, it’s the last coat of varnish before they ‘Splice the mainbrace’.
