What a TAG Heuer VELA Cup! Already surpassed 40 members

Feel like getting back to measuring yourself under sail with your dockside neighbor? Are you missing some healthy sailing fun? Well then, don’t make any commitments because The Tyrrhenian’s busiest sail/race is coming back, 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.

Entries to date already exceed 40, and considering that the last few days are often the most intense, the goal of reaching 100 boats is by no means a pipe dream. 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.

Welcoming the VELA Cup sailors will be the town of Chiavari, which will offer some conventions and discounts with several downtown businesses, which we will communicate soon on www.velacup.it . For those unfamiliar with Chiavari, it is a seaside town with one of the most beautiful “carruggi,” the street that runs through the historic center, in Liguria. A place where good food is mixed with sea air and a safe harbor to land.

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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

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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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