Everything you need to know about the TAG Heuer Vela Cup on July 25 and 26

We have already surpassed 60 boats registered but we are ambitious and aim high: for the TAG Heuer VELA Cup in Chiavari, the first major post-Covid sailing event in the Tyrrhenian Sea, we aim to reach 80 boats and it will certainly be a great celebration. Don’t make any commitments because the most crowded sailing/racing event in the Tyrrhenian Sea is about to return, the appointment is for July 24, 25, and 26 at Marina Calata Ovest in Chiavari, a port that is part of the Marinedi network.

THE PROGRAM.

The regattas/sailings that will take place on fascinating coastal courses are scheduled on Saturday and Sunday days. On Friday 24, crews will have to finalize their entries, pick up their stickers and gift bags, and will be able to stroll along the docks since there will be various exhibitors from the nautical world because this weekend will not only be dedicated to the VELA Cup but also to the VELA Festival. A briefing is scheduled for Saturday 25 morning at 8:30 am. On Saturday evening at 9 p.m., the party/awards ceremony will take place at Piazza Mercato in Chiavari, followed by live jazz music. Sunday morning again on the water for the regatta with awards ceremony to follow where Sunday’s winners and whoever did best between the two races will be crowned. Every evening fresh beer on the dock for the crews. All information on
www.velacup.it and in the official regatta documents.

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AWARDS.

In fact, prizes will be awarded to the top three in each grouping in the two categories “cruising” and “racing class,” there will be aper prizes and Vintage boats in the two categories “vintage” (built before 1969 and “vintage” (before 1989).

Awards will also be given to thehe first runner-up with the best performance (calculated by a secret handicap system) among all participating boats; the first in real time of the “cruising class” and “racing class” categories; the most elegant boat (Gentlemen Yachting prize); and as we anticipate there will be a prize for the last runner-up as well, as in the verse spirit of VELA Cup.

And then there will be gadgets and prizes raffled off by our partners, starting of course with TAG Heuer. There will be a valuable TAG Heuer watch up for grabs at each leg , reserved for the first place overall according to the VELA Cup’s secret compensation formula, and if that is not enough, also a splendid Garmin inReach raffle at each leg.

At each stage, each registrant receives a very rich hemp gift bag containing a real treasure. In addition to the regatta instructions and number stickers to be placed on the two bow sides of the boats, the gift bag contains: a T Shirt with the TAG Heuer Vela Cup and Medplastic logo; a copy of the Sailing Newspaper. There will also be inside the bag lots of other sailing-themed gadgets designed together with all our partners: TAG Heuer, Doyle Sailing, Vetus, Harken, Medplastic, Garmin Marine, Veneziani and MyMatchRace.

Doyle’s sailmaker will deliver 3 logoed backpacks per leg to the top 3 regatta, cruising and overall. La will raffle off for the Chiavari leg a 2.5L can of primer and a 2.5L can of antifouling to the first overall in real time. Vetus will be raffling off a Heartbeat 11 iSUP, a fun board from Yellow V.

The TAG Heuer Vela Cup IN PILLS.

Who can participate

Any type of boat of any size, with no restrictions on age, bureaucracy, technical complications, with rankings based on length. No need for a tonnage certificate.

Rankings

In homogeneous groupings by length into two categories, “cruising class” (white sails, excluding Code 0) and “racing class” (Code 0, spi, gennaker, etc.).

Then there will be a special ranking for “vintage” boats divided into “vintage” (built before 1969) and “classic” (built before 1988.

Berths

At all stops, mooring is free or on special terms, which you can find out about at www.velacup.it

Gift Bag

At each stage, each registrant receives a very rich hemp gift bag containing a real treasure.

In addition to the regatta instructions and number stickers to be placed on the two bow sides of the boats, the gift bag contains: a T Shirt with the TAG Heuer Vela Cup and Medplastic logo; a copy of the Sailing Newspaper. There will also be inside the bag lots of other sailing-themed gadgets designed together with all our partners: TAG Heuer, Doyle Sailing, Vetus, Harken, Medplastic, Garmin Marine, Venetians and MyMatchRace

Partners

Partner title: TAG Heuer. Partners: Garmin Marine, Vetus, Doyle, Harken, Venetians and MyMatchRace

NEXT STEPS

Monday, August 24.

TAG Heuer Vela Cup Caprera, in the Gulf of Porto Palma, Maddalena Archipelago (northern Sardinia).

In collaboration with Caprera Sailing Center. The stage of the VELA Cup, now in its second year, in the natural harbor setting of Porto Palma, home of the Caprera Sailing Center. You anchor in the natural harbor protected from all winds, sail a coastal course of 15/18 miles Among the islands of the Maddalena archipelago. It will be on Monday to also allow charter boats, which charter from Saturday to Saturday, to participate

Saturday, September 19.

TAG Heuer Vela Cup/Golfo dei Poeti,

in Lerici (La Spezia/Liguria).

In cooperation with Erix Sailing Club. In the Gulf of La Spezia, called by all sailors a “sailing paradise,” the VELA Cup makes a stop in Lerici. It races on a spectacular course that skirts the islands of Palmaria and Tino. Evening party with award ceremony in the center of Lerici.

Sunday, September 27.

TAG Heuer Vela Cup/All sailing,

Marina di Pisa (Tuscany).

In collaboration with the Yacht Club Repubblica Marinara di Pisa.

It is now a great Tuscan classic, the TAG Heuer Vela Cup/Tutti a Vela in Marina di Pisa. Mooring is free in the new Pisa harbor. They race in friendship among dozens of boats of all kinds on a spectacular coastal course. In the evening award ceremony and party in the island setting in the center of the harbor.

Sunday, October 18.

TAG Heuer Vela Cup Venice/Veleziana

In magical Venice, in cooperation with the Compagnia della Vela, the TAG Heuer VELA Cup/Veleziana stage.

You moor at the Club’s headquarters on the island of San Giorgio, right in front of San Marco. You race with a unique course of beauty in the Lagoon passing through the Lido, celebrate and toast in the evening at the headquarters of the Compagnia della Vela during the awards ceremony… Boating in Venice, a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

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