Smart Funny Sailing Race: are you ready for the TAG Heuer VELA Cup?

E TAG Heuer VELACup it is. 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. Our sailing event will be the first sailing event after the lock down period, and with it the VELAFestival will also return. We will have fun at sea all together, with any boat, from dinghies to maxis, without tonnage certificates and in the absolute pleasure of experiencing the sea. A Smart, because we will do it safely, Funny, because it will be fun and open to everyone, Sailing Race in which everyone can participate in their own personal spirit.

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Three days of love for the sea and sailing, with triangle and coastal courses, with a Challenge Trophy to be awarded to the boat that has excelled over the three trials. The TAG Heuer VELACup proper, with a dedicated awards ceremony, will take place. Saturday, July 25. All in compliance with current Covid 19 regulations.

We talked about it with Alberto Cossu, who takes care of the organization of the event for the Giornale della Vela, and with Andreas Albeck, TAG Heuer Italy Marketing Director, who tells us, “In the VELA Cup there is a passion for doing something, and that is important to us. Sailing and boating have a very close connection to our vision, just think that modern navigation was born out of the time factor, and our timepieces, race watches, and all our technological efforts bear witness to this shared vision.

But our interest in the world of sailing is not only toward racing, as in the case of our connection with the America’s Cup that we won with Oracle, but toward the whole world of sailing also and especially that of the sailors who go sailing every weekend to feed their passion, as with the VELA Cup in whose spirit we completely identify,” Andreas Albeck told us.

“This will be a special VELACup because it represents the return to the sea,” Alberto Cossu echoes him, “but it will not be only on the sea, there will be the area with the stands of the exhibitors of accessories, clothing and brands related to the nautical world, because this weekend will not be only, so much, VELA Cup, but there will also be the VELAFestival with the best of nautical brands.

We are also organizing a VELACup Beach&Bar so that we can cool off at the end of our days at sea, perhaps right on the beach,” Cossu explains, who continues: “on our website
www.velacup.it
there is a page called VELACup Covid 19 where protocol updates for the event will be available. The briefings and award ceremonies will be live, they may be limited to a controlled number of people according to current regulations, but all information will then be in the official event documents updated with the latest arrangements,” concluded Alberto Cossu. See you in Chiavari!

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.

Awards

Prizes are awarded to the top three in each grouping in the two categories “cruising class” and “racing class,” prizes to Vintage boats in the two categories “vintage” (built before 1969 and “vintage” (before 1989).

Special Awards

To the first place winner with the best performance (calculated by a secret handicap system) among all participating boats; to the first in real time in the “cruising class” and “racing class” categories; to the most elegant boat (Gentlemen Yachting prize); to the last place winner.

Prizes among all participants

A valuable TAG Heuer watch and a useful Garmin inReach will be up for grabs at each stop.

Search/find crew

Find a boarding or crew for your boat or look it up if you don’t know who to go with on www.velacup.it www.velacup.it e www.mymatchrace.net if you don’t have a boat and dream of doing the VELACup or if you’re looking for help with your crew here’s your solution.

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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