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• Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2024

08.09.24 - 14.09.24

Porto Cervo, ITA

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Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup - including Rolex IMA Maxi 1 Worlds - will take place in Porto Cervo from September 8 to 14

(photo: Rolex / C. Borlenghi)

100ft Black Jack wins Palermo-Montecarlo line honours and sets new race record - 44 hours, 34 minutes and 14 seconds. She crossed the finish line at 08:34:14 on August 22

(photo: Circolo della Vela Sicilia / Studio Borlenghi)

Palermo-Montecarlo offshore race is underway. It is the last event of the IMA 2023-24 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge

Spectacular start for 2024 palermo-montecarlo offshore race. 50+ boats including 5 maxis were on the start line off mondello, siciliy, palermo-montecarlo offshore race sets sail tomorrow august 20 from off mondello, sicily.

(photo: Loro Piana / Studio Borlenghi)

New World Championship at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup (September 8 to 14): the Rolex IMA Maxi 1 Worlds will be open to maxi yachts with an IRC TCC of 1.700-2.200 and up to 30.51m (100ft) in length

(photo: IMA / Studio Borlenghi)

Aegean 600 prizegiving. AIOLOS, owner IMA member George Procopiou, wins 1 place in Maxi division and is also presented with the IMA George Andreadis Challenge trophy

(photo: AleN photography / Nikos Alevromytis)

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The 2024 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup will feature the very first World Championship for Maxi 1. Taking place out of Porto Cervo...

39 years ago the International Maxi Association was started as a small gathering of maxi yacht owners wishing to bring more co-ordination to their sailing. Since then it has grown both in the size of its membership and its remit, to become an organization with much wider influence and endorsed by World Sailing to organize World Championships and to manage maxi racing globally. The IMA’s overall aim is to encourage greater participation in maxi racing around the world. To this end, the Association has become increasingly involved in all the regattas with significant maxi participation. Another of the IMA’s major responsibilities is to encourage the highest standards of race management, safety and measurement for both inshore and offshore maxi yacht events. For maxi regattas the IMA assists with the standardization of entry and the writing of notice of races and sailing instructions. The Association can also assist with race management and support and endorse events that are held to its high standards. For 2021 as well as all our usual events and our Mediterranean Maxi Inshore and Offshore Championships, we are adding a new regatta run by the Yacht Club Italiano as a season opener in Portofino at the end of April. We are also supporting the famous Transpacific Yacht Race from Los Angeles to Hawaii and the Aegean 600. Our flagship event, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, we trust will be able to proceed this September in Porto Cervo in near normal conditions. Here and at Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez we will be joined by the J Class, a class formally affiliated with the IMA, as we await news of their next World Championship. The IMA’s membership remains healthy – a trend we hope will continue. We need maxi owners to support us so that we can support them! We remain extremely grateful for the generous long term and loyal support from our main sponsor Rolex and are pleased to welcome Credit Suisse as a further sponsor. We also thank the marine clothing company Code 0 for kitting out the IMA team in smart new gear. As usual I thank my hard-working and dedicated staff. Throughout the pandemic we have met weekly on Zoom but are greatly looking forward to seeing each other in person, as well as all maxi owner and sailors in the forthcoming season. We wish you an excellent season ahead.

February 2021 Andrew McIrvine IMA Secretary General

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Published on July 31st, 2024 | by Editor

Maxi yachts to compete for World title

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The 2024 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup will feature the very first World Championship for ‘Maxi 1’ when racing takes place on September 8-14 in Porto Cervo, Italy. As part of the main event, the Rolex IMA Maxi 1 World Championship will be open to maxi yachts with an IRC TCC of 1.700-2.200 and up to 100 feet in length.

The International Maxi Association (IMA) is responsible for overseeing and nurturing the sport of maxi racing, and is permitted officially to hold two world championships each year. In 2010, the first Rolex Mini Maxi World Championship was held during the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, and since then world championships have been held for the Maxi 72 and J Class under the auspices of the IMA, the latter taking place out of Newport, RI in 2017.

“The International Maxi Association endeavours to adapt its world championships to wherever across the maxi fleet there is the greatest competition,” explains IMA Secretary General Andrew McIrvine. “Over recent seasons, we have seen the 100 footers increasingly ramping up their programs with boats that were once cruiser-racers now becoming more thoroughbred racing yachts with all the development, sail programs, and elite level crews that that entails. As a result we are expecting at least ten Maxi 1 yachts to be competing at our new World Championship.”

Already entered for the Maxi 1 World title is 100 footers Leopard 3; a trio of former Wallycentos – Magic Carpet Cubed, Galateia and V; SHK Scallywag – Seng Huang Lee’s David Witt-led campaign returning to race in the northern hemisphere for the first time since the pandemic. Then there is the 93-foot Bullitt, last year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race winner; the 85-foot racer Deep Blue; the 82-foot Django HF in her first race since receiving some major modifications; the ClubSwan 80 My Song; and the brand new 80-foot Capricorno for which the Rolex IMA Maxi 1 World Championship will be the first regatta in which she will race.

While yachts larger than 30.51m (100ft) compete in their own Super Maxi class, the IMA Maxi fleet today encompasses yachts of 18.29m (60ft) to 30.51m (100ft), as published annually in the IMA Maxi Class Rules. In recent seasons, the IMA has shed monickers from its classes such as Racer/Racer-Cruiser/Cruiser-Racer and Mini Maxi, in favor of dividing up the Maxi fleet solely by IRC rating.

For example at the 2023 Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, Maxi 1 was for yachts with a TCC of 1.700< (ie 100 footers); Maxi 2 1.600-1.700 (ie the former Maxi 72s); Maxi 3 1.400-1.600 (the former Mini Maxi Racer-Cruiser class), Maxi 4 1.260-1.400 (the ex-Mini Maxi Cruiser-Racer class, but including a Swan 80 and a Southern Wind 82) and Maxi 5 <1.260 (the former Mini Maxi Cruiser class, ie Swan 65).

“The aim of this is entirely to encourage yachts of a similar performance to race against one another to ensure the best possible competition, rather than rely on any highly subjective terminology,” explains McIrvine.

Maxi yacht world championships have long been associated with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and Porto Cervo. From the early 1980s, the International Class A Yacht Association (ICAYA – the IMA’s previous name) regularly held here World Championships for the ‘Class A’ ; the name of the maxi class as defined by the IOR rule of that era. It is because of this that, to this day, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is still referred in sailing circles as ‘the Maxi Worlds’.

The last World Championship held at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup was for the Maxi 72 class in 2018 when it was won by Dieter Schön’s Momo. The World Championship for this class was withdrawn due to dwindling numbers and the Maxi 72s increasingly racing out of class. Despite no longer racing within the confines of their box rule, the remaining former Maxi 72s continue to enjoy the best racing with four currently entered in September – Jethou, plus Jolt, Proteus, and North Star, which will be competing in their own class in Porto Cervo in September.

Event details: https://www.yccs.it/regate-2024/maxi_yacht_rolex_cup-3314.html

Source: IMA

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The Allure of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup

It’s a challenging race at a stunning location that draws some of the best sailors in the world.

By David Schmidt

There is no shortage of beautiful sailing regattas. Few offer the same combination of world-class sailors and yachts, outstanding geography and conditions, professional racecourse management and refined yacht club hospitality as the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup .

Most high-end regattas typically draw boats in the 20-, 30- and 40-foot range, with limited numbers of larger yachts, or the events are organized for a particular design, like for the 23-foot J/70s, in which all competing boats are identical.

Not here. The Maxi cup, which is being hosted by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda and which begins on Monday in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, is open only to maxi yachts. According to the regatta’s Notice of Race, this means sailboats that measure at least 60 feet, bow to stern. Of the 50 yachts that are competing this year, almost half exceed 80 feet, with the largest entry — the J-Class yacht Svea — measuring 143 feet.

These are fast, expensive and complex sailboats — with an average crew size of 25 sailors — which will race against similar yachts around tactically engaging racecourses. Veterans say the regatta’s dependable weather patterns, convivial atmosphere, and the yacht club’s hospitality and organization make it one of sailing’s greatest events.

Pier Luigi Loro Piana, the owner of My Song, a Club Swan 80, described the Maxi cup as the most professional and well-organized regatta on the Mediterranean Sea.

“We do a week of really beautiful and good sailing,” Piana said, referring to the regatta. “You can be 100 percent satisfied if you have good weather, good wind, good people, good food. During the race, after the race, there’s always something nice to enjoy.”

Andrea Recordati, the owner of Bullitt, a Wally 93 , said it was the most prestigious race on the Mediterranean circuit.

He said that other maxi-class regattas might draw, on average, six or seven yachts that are his competitive peers. “Here you could have 15, if not even 20,” Recordati said.

While their designs differ, each yacht in the Maxi cup has a handicap rating (think of golf) that allows vessels of different lengths, widths and weights to race competitively. The yachts “are relatively similar,” Piana said, “so we can make a very nice regatta.”

And with a bigger fleet size comes a higher level of competition.

“It’s the big dance,” said Peter Holmberg, an Olympic silver medalist and the helmsman of Topaz, a J-Class yacht. “Everybody goes to it, and so it will give us the greatest competition of all the events we’ll do in the Med over the year. If you’re going to put one on your list, it’s usually [the] Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. And is that the draw? Of course it is.”

Then there are the racecourses.

The regatta offers two styles of racing. The windward-leeward courses are set in open water and use movable buoys that are set parallel with the wind to test each team’s ability to sail upwind, or into the wind, and downwind, or with the wind.

The longer coastal races instead employ the area’s natural geographical features, including the nearby Maddalena archipelago, to create courses that require teams to sail fast at a variety of wind angles.

“Coastal racing is more interesting,” Holmberg said. “It’s more diverse, complex, challenging.”

These challenges include the art of predicting what the still-unseen wind will be doing around the islands, anticipating how this will affect tactics and ensuring that the yacht is flying the right sails.

“Windward-leeward is a sprint, and coastal is a marathon of many sprints,” he said.

While he enjoys both styles of racing, and was clear that both have their place at the regatta, Holmberg said that if he had to choose one, it would be the coastal courses: “It gives us the extreme range, and it tests you on all aspects.”

Paul Westlake, a 10-time world champion sailor and the trim coordinator on Svea, said racing a “coastal course is a pretty stressful time for navigators.”

“It makes the racecourse much more open for the tacticians and strategists,” he said, adding that there are numerous places where yachts can hit the bottom. “Everyone is trying to cut the corners and push as hard as they can.”

Recordati said the regatta attracted some of the best sailors in the world. He said that the loads — or forces — generated by the maxi yachts demanded expertise. “They are pretty high-tech pieces of machinery, which — if they break or are not run properly — can not only be economically damaging, but it can be very dangerous for the crew.”

Anthony Kotoun, a five-time world champion sailor and the strategist aboard Galateia, a Wally Cento, described the regatta as the Masters for maxi yachts.

“It is called the Maxi yacht cup, but in the lingo, it’s called just the Maxi Worlds,” he said, adding that it’s the unofficial world championship of the big boats. “You save sails for it, you get new sails for it, you bring in the top crew — that’s the one you aim for.”

One important difference between the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and other world-championship regattas is that this event always takes place off Porto Cervo in early September, while the others typically rotate among clubs, continents and calendar dates.

The regatta’s consistent scheduling and location also make it an important social gathering. “It is a bit of a homecoming event,” Westlake said.

While the yachts, the sailors and the racecourses are a significant draw, so too, say veterans, is the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda.

“The whole show is a level beyond any other event you go to,” Holmberg said. “Y.C.C.S. — they set the mark. They are the standard, the highest that I’ve seen around the world” because of its extraordinary amenities and the professionals it brings in to help run the regatta.

Edoardo Recchi, the club’s secretary general and sports director, called the regatta the club’s signature event. While Recchi was clear that the regatta’s conditions, courses and competition level are its most important attributes, he noted that having a “high level of services and a lot of details is pretty attractive to all the owners,” about 90 percent of whom return each year.

In addition to the racing, the yacht club organizes post-sailing and evening social events. This includes Saturday’s ceremony, where the winners of each class receive Rolex watches.

“Every single owner that enters the [regatta], for sure, is dreaming of being handed a Rolex,” Westlake said. “You never see a bigger smile on an owner’s face [than] when he stands on the podium holding onto that Rolex.”

While there are easier ways of acquiring a Rolex than winning the regatta, none involve seeing one’s name topping the leaderboard outside the yacht club.

“For me, the Maxi is the race to win, full stop,” Recordati said, who has never won a watch, but missed winning his class at the 2011 event by just two points. Of the coastal inshore races, he said, it’s “the one that everybody wants to win.”

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The biggest yachts competing at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup

The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup gets underway next month and is set to be one of the biggest gatherings of racing royalty in the Mediterranean this summer. Taking place from 3 to 9 September, the regatta will welcome 50 competitors to Porto Cervo for a week of rail-to-rail racing through the Maddalena Archipelago. Take a look at some of this year's contenders...

Kauris IV is not only the largest contender competing in this year's Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, but also one of the newest. This Wally 145 was built by Persico Marine and delivered in 2020 as a vessel that can be enjoyed as a family boat but also compete around the cans. Kauris IV has a lifting keel with a 67-metre-tall mast and flies an area of 1,968 square metres of sail. 

The largest (and newest) member of the J Class fleet, the 44-metre Vitters yacht Svea will be back racing in Sardinia after being crowned overall winner of the J Class last year. The original lines for this Super J were designed by Tore Holm in 1973 and Hoek Design Naval Architects was called on to revive the 75-year-old drawings and bring her up to date, complete with a 53.75-metre carbon fibre main mast. As a result, Svea displaces just 182 tonnes — two tonnes less than her fellow J Hanuman and six tonnes less than Ranger . 

After a fourth-place finish in last year's Maxi Rolex Cup, Topaz and crew have some work to do. The Holland Jachtbouw J Class is based on an unbuilt 1938 design and was revisited by Andre Hoek . Topaz ’s hull design features a reduced wetted surface and higher keel aspect ratio to her 27-metre waterline length, making her quick.

Velsheda is the only original J Class racing at this year's Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and, after securing third place in 2022, is back to see if she can beat her result. This 38.5-metre yacht is the only original J Class not to have been built for the America's Cup , commissioned in 1933 by the chairman of Woolworths and named after his three daughters: Velma, Sheila and Daphne.

The 36-metre Viriella will be returning to Porto Cervo after a fifth-place finish in the Maxi class last year. She is the flagship of the Maxi Dolphin fleet, designed by German Frers , and features a lifting keel with a Southern Spars carbon fibre mast.

Delivered as Highland Fling 15, this 35-metre Swan 115 was born into a racing dynasty. She changed ownership in 2021 and was renamed Moat and it was under her new name that she and her crew were crowned winners of the inaugural Ibiza JoySail regatta. Moat finished just two points behind second place at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup in 2022 and will be eager to climb the finishing order this time around.

Geist is the flagship of British shipyard Spirit Yachts. She is undeniably beautiful but also a powerhouse on the racecourse. In 12 knots of true breeze, she beats upwind at nine knots, and while she’s clearly a very large yacht, she’s also a proper sailing boat with all the feel you’d expect of something a third of her size. After coming second in last year's event, Geist will be eyeing the top spot in the Maxi class. 

Inoui is a lean, green, racing machine. A regular on the regatta circuit, she was built by Vitters to a design by Philippe Briand and is built entirely from carbon with a square-top mainsail, shallow sloping reverse-transom and a retractable fin-and-bulb keel. She will be competing off the back of a win at the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta.

Y3K is a competitive racer with a powerful sail plan (she flies 1,162 square metres of sail downwind). She won three consecutive Maxi Yacht Rolex Cups from 2009 to 2011 and will be racing once again in the Maddelena archipelago. She was the third Wally to be ordered by German yachtsman Claus-Peter Offen. He and his racing team have won 11 Wally regattas over the years, both on Y3K and on his previous Wally Galma .

Magic Carpet ³

With wins at the Giorgio Armani Superyacht Regatta, Rolex Giraglia, Maxi Worlds and Les Viles de St Tropez, Magic Carpet 3 is a fierce competitor. She was launched as the second in a series of next-gen performance cruisers by Wally, named the Wallycento and has a displacement of just 50 tonnes (if you remove the keel and the mast, that figure drops to 18 tonnes), which makes her one of the lightest cruising boats ever built. During her construction, every item was weighed, right down to the titanium screws holding it all together. Her Southern Spars rigging flies 640 square metres of sail while a lifting keel reduces her draft by two metres.

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La regata dedicata alle imbarcazioni Nautor Swan si tiene ogni due anni in Costa Smeralda ed è organizzata dallo Yacht Club Costa Smeralda con il sostegno di Rolex. (ph © Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi)

Organizzata in collaborazione con l’International Maxi Association, la 34esima edizione della Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup conta circa 50 imbarcazioni taglia XXL (dai 18 metri in su), comprendente Super e Mini Maxi, Wally, J-Class (le imbarcazioni che hanno corso la Coppa America negli anni Trenta) e – novità introdotta l’anno scorso – i maxi catamarani. Una flotta variegata che richiede percorsi differenti e grande attenzione, considerando il numero e la mole delle barche partecipanti. Se in mare le regate sono uno spettacolo unico, fra le isole e gli isolotti che fungono da boe naturali e il maestrale teso che mette in risalto l’acqua verde-azzurra della Costa Smeralda, a terra è un susseguirsi di cocktail bordo piscina e cene di gala, all’insegna di quell’ospitalità raffinata e rilassata del Club e dei suoi soci. Una volta in banchina, le uniformi bagnate di acqua salata lasciano il posto a pantaloni color ruggine, blazer blu e cravatta “sociale”. Il patio della Club House profuma di mirto selvatico e brezza di mare, rinfrescata dall’umidità della sera: qui la lingua competitiva del racing viene attenuata e sostituita da una più equilibrata e universale terminologia yachting, che tutto comprende e tutti accontenta. La parola d’ordine è relax, ma anche business, quando serve. Data la concentrazione di armatori internazionali, non è un mistero che le regate di Porto Cervo siano un’ottima occasione per fare affari, stringere nuove alleanze, vendere e comprare barche: durante la passata edizione, ad esempio, Dario Ferrari, imprenditore milanese della cosmetica, a capo della multinazionale Intercos, ha ceduto il suo Maxi 72 Cannonball a Peter Harrison, il ceo di Richard Mille EMEA. Nei giorni di regata la Piazzetta Azzurra diventa un crocevia di manager, campioni olimpici, influencer, attrici e sportivi, alcuni ospiti a bordo delle barche da regata, altri sui megayacht che affollano la rada di Porto Cervo. Quest’anno si incontreranno Lord Irvine Laidlaw, fondatore dell’Istituto per la Ricerca Internazionale (IIR) e del Monaco Yacht Show, nonché armatore del maxi catamarano Highland Fling , e Wendy Schmidt, l’imprenditrice americana impegnata in progetti filantropici che correrà al timone del suo Deep Blue (con il quale ha vinto la Barcolana 2022). Tra gli habitué italiani, non mancano mai Pier Luigi Loro Piana, sul ClubSwan80 My Song e Andrea Recordati – alla guida dell’azienda di famiglia impegnata nel settore farmaceutico e recente fondatore della AA Aviation (che si occuperà di noleggio e leasing di aeromobili ed elicotteri) – a bordo del suo Wally 93’ Bullitt .

Un momento della Rolex Swan Cup 2022, con gli yacht Canopo (a sinistra) e Selene-Alifax (a destra), due dei nove partecipanti alla classe ClubSwan 42. (ph © Rolex/Carlo Borlenghi)

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MAXI YACHT ROLEX CUP: DELIVERING EXCELLENCE

Geneva, 31 August, 2021 –  For 40 years the appeal of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup has been unquestionable. On the water, the level of competition is of the highest order and supported by the finest race management. The racecourses are some of the most challenging and spectacular in sailing, offering an unrivalled combination of conditions and scenery. Beyond the racing, the event is both a proving ground and a showcase for the latest developments in the upper echelons of the sport.

The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup returns for its 31st edition from 5–11 September 2021. Rolex has enjoyed a close partnership with both the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) and its principal regatta since 1985. The relationship has been defined from the outset by a shared desire to deliver the highest standards of excellence.

Open to yachts upwards of 18.29 metres (60 feet) in length, the entry list features a selection of the world’s fastest, most powerful and impressive monohulls. Rolex Testimonee and four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Ben Ainslie, a past competitor, highlights the event’s alignment with Rolex: 

“ From a sporting perspective, precision is core to overall performance in sailing and this is no more so than at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup where there is a natural link with Rolex through the desire to push technology, innovation and sailing skill.”

Five days of competition are scheduled, offering a programme of primarily coastal races that allow the fleet to take on some of the world’s most impressive, natural racecourses. Located off the YCCS’s stunning headquarters in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, the action unfolds in the alluring waters of the Costa Smeralda and is set against the wild, rocky islands and islets of the Maddalena archipelago.

The fleet, typically upwards of 40 international entries, is divided into classes organized by type, size and potential. This ensures close, engrossing competition between entrants of similar characteristics. Categories include Mini Maxi, Maxi and Supermaxis, the grouping for the largest yachts in excess of 30.48 metres (100 feet). The primary objective for all crews is to emerge triumphant from their division, a goal that requires immense, unwavering sense of purpose. Only with the strongest will, the keenest experience and a sharp intuition can crews succeed. 

The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is the very essence of superlative yacht racing. The environment, the organization, the yachts and the participants are all exceptional. The crews comprise the world’s foremost sailors, a veritable who’s who of the yachting world. Even for those accustomed to success, victory at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup remains a significant achievement.

Another Rolex Testimonee, United States sailing legend Paul Cayard, has competed at the event for more than 30 years and emphasizes its superior standing in the sailing community: “ The Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup is an example of how a sponsor and a yacht club can come together, create a long-term relationship and live through all of the evolutions required to remain at the top.”

Among the entries for the 2021 edition are yachts with outstanding pedigree at Rolex-partnered events. Hap Fauth’s Maxi 72  Bella Mente  is a multiple winner of this regatta,  Comanche  is the race record holder at the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race, George David’s  Rambler  has won line honours at the Rolex Fastnet Race, Rolex Middle Sea Race and Rolex Giraglia, while Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones’s  Magic Carpet Cubed  is a Rolex Giraglia line honours and overall race winner. The largest registered entrant is  Topaz , a recent build of a 1935 J-Class design, measuring 42.7m (140 ft).

Given the quality of the people and yachts, the margins between success and failure on the water are minute. Excellence is not a simple aspiration it is a demand. Rolex is proud to have been associated with the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup since its early years, an event that upholds the tenets of its own philosophy and Perpetual spirit: adapting to the elements, constantly seeking to improve and summoning one’s deepest resources.

ROLEX AND YACHTING Rolex has always associated with activities driven by passion, excellence, precision and team spirit. The Swiss watchmaker naturally gravitated towards the elite world of yachting six decades ago and the brand’s enduring partnership now encompasses the most prestigious clubs, races and regattas, as well as towering figures in the sport, including ground-breaking round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester and the most successful Olympic sailor of all time, Sir Ben Ainslie. Today, Rolex is Title Sponsor of 15 major international events – from leading offshore races such as the annual Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and the biennial Rolex Fastnet Race, to grand prix competition at the Rolex TP52 World Championship and spectacular gatherings at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and the Rolex Swan Cup. It also supports the exciting SailGP global championship in which national teams race identical supercharged F50 catamarans on some of the world’s most famous harbours. Rolex’s partnerships with the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Royal Ocean Racing Club, Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Yacht Club Italiano, New York Yacht Club and Royal Yacht Squadron, among others, are the foundation of its enduring relationship with this dynamic sport.

ABOUT ROLEX  AN UNRIVALLED REPUTATION FOR QUALITY AND EXPERTISE Rolex is an integrated and independent Swiss watch  manufacture.  Headquartered in Geneva, the brand is recognized the world over for its expertise and the quality of its products – symbols of excellence, elegance and prestige. The movements of its Oyster Perpetual and Cellini watches are certified by COSC, then tested in-house for their precision, performance and reliability. The Superlative Chronometer certification, symbolized by the green seal, confirms that each watch has successfully undergone tests conducted by Rolex in its own laboratories according to its own criteria. These are periodically validated by an independent external organization. The word “Perpetual” is inscribed on every Rolex Oyster watch. But more than just a word on a dial, it is a philosophy that embodies the company’s vision and values. Hans Wilsdorf, the founder of the company, instilled a notion of perpetual excellence that would drive the company forward. This led Rolex to pioneer the development of the wristwatch and numerous major watchmaking innovations, such as the Oyster, the first waterproof wristwatch, launched in 1926, and the Perpetual rotor self-winding mechanism, invented in 1931. In the course of its history, Rolex has registered over 500 patents. At its four sites in Switzerland, the brand designs, develops and produces the majority of its watch components, from the casting of the gold alloys to the machining, crafting, assembly and finishing of the movement, case, dial and bracelet. Furthermore, the brand is actively involved in supporting the arts and culture, sport and exploration, as well as those who are devising solutions to preserve the planet.

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