A super technical edition of the Two Hundred: here are the winners

One of the most classic and iconic offshore regattas raced in the Adriatic, the Circolo Nautico Santa Margherita ‘s Duecento, goes into the archives. The course of the Duecento 2025 was the classic one, starting from Caorle, passing through the offshore buoy of Grado, then heading for the island of Sansego and then back to Caorle.

There was a lot of upwind sailing in this edition, on the descent to Sansego, with technical and at times harsh conditions, but the ascent to the finish line was all at carrying gaits. A regatta that confirms itself as a great adventure as well as a sporting challenge, to be done at least once.

The winners of the Two Hundred 2025

It is Forever K the first boat overall to cross the finish line of the 2025 edition of La Duecento, organized by Circolo Nautico Santa Margherita in collaboration with the City of Caorle and Darsena dell’Orologio, thus winning the Antal Line Honour Trophy.

The Cookson 50 of Padua-based owner Claudio Bernoni arrived in Caorle on Saturday, May 3, at 18:54:14, after leading a masterful race always at the head of the fleet.

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Great satisfaction for Bernoni, who wanted a group of talented youngsters from Trieste with him for the offshore sailing debut of the new boat, a very fast, high-performance design that lived up to expectations.

“This edition of La Duecento was fast, with no major wind holes.” Navigator Mirko Juretic declares. “We started with a cross-rigger run to Grado that gave us courage for the long upwind sail to Sansego, which was anything but easy, with very shifty wind that forced the helmsmen to stay very focused. Arriving at Kvarner, a beautiful sunrise accompanied us as we rounded the island and then immediately up gennaker. The stern sailing was exciting, especially in the final part where the wind increased in intensity, making us glide until the evening arrival in Caorle.”

The ORC Overall XTutti compensated time victory goes to Athena, J112 by Giuseppe Mezzalira of Treviso, who crossed the finish line at 00:30:36 on May 4.

Enthusiasm at reading the rankings, for an experienced group that has been sailing together in offshores for a few years, accustomed to interchangeable roles on board. Thus helmsman-tailer Gianluca Colla “On board with the owner for this regatta there were five of us, besides us also Graziano Manfrè and brothers Andrea and Piero Scarpa. The regatta was fast and technical, after the gate we kept to the coast for a very long upwind, tacking under the Croatian coasts and even after Sansego which we rounded in the very first positions, we chose to keep towards land in the direction of Caorle. At the finish together with the fastest boats we were tired but happy and this beautiful result is a prize that crowns the work of many seasons of a close-knit group.”

The first of the X2 category, after an exciting two-hundred-mile match-race between high-performance hulls, was resolved at 22:01:09 on Saturday, May 3, with the arrival of Paolo Bevilacqua-Michele Toffano’s Oryx, which won the Antal Line Honour X2 Trophy and the ORC X2 Class A victory. Happy both “It was two wonderful days, in a technical regatta where the wind assisted us most of the time, a beautiful race.”

The overall win at ORC Overall X2 compensated times goes to the small and fast Mr. Hyde of Forlì’s Marco Rusticali and Riccardo Rossi, not new to these results, who comment

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“It was a fast but challenging race for us; Mr. Hyde suffers a lot upwind, especially with a small crew. The long descent into the wind showed us the limits of our boat’s length, but fortunately the new jib and the choice to stay below shore limited the damage, allowing us to turn Sansego together with our class rivals, all very close. The ascent to Caorle was all in the stern, flying over the waves and stretching the distance from the pursuers. For the second time we win this beautiful regatta, a result we never expected given the forecast.”

Victory in the Multihull category went to Austria’s Klaus Zwirner paired with Simon Rainer on the Dragonfly 28 Namaste, ahead of Mare and Lightness, who was the first to cross the finish line in real.

Among the Open650s engaged on a shortened course to the Porer Lighthouse, Mira by Matteo-Sassi won at the ORC compensated times, ahead of Antigua by Donato Zupin-Alessandro Pramparo and Playtime 2 by Alessandro Ciscato-Davide Vicentini, who had been the fastest to the finish line in real time.

The regatta closed at 10:28 a.m. on Sunday, May 4, with the arrival of Actinias, Michael Kleyhons’ Marchi 39, which won the Soligo Never Give Up Trophy intended for the last boat to finish.

The Two Hundred, an offshore regatta taking place along the two-hundred nautical mile course from Caorle to Sansego and back, was attended by 69 boats, with over 400 sailors from 5 nations, in the X2 and XTutti categories competing under the ORC and Mocra compensated systems