Loro Piana Giraglia: champagne sailing coastal racing, here’s who’s winning
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Champagne sailing weather conditions in Saint Tropez where the coastal races of the Loro Piana Giraglia 2025 are taking place. The calendar from 2024 calls for four days of inshore racing, and this week on the French Riviera is proving to be perfect from a wind standpoint: first two days with fresh wind, with a Mistral blowing even over0 knots on day 2, third day milder with average intensity. Scenario that will soon change, however, ahead of the 240-mile offshore race starting June 11 at 12 noon, with the arrival of a vast area of high pressure. There will be more racing tomorrow on coastal courses or between buoys, depending on the classes, before the most anticipated “Long”.
Loro Piana Giraglia – who is winning the coastal races.
Five races were completed in the IRC 0 class, the maxi class, the only one that held windward-leeward races on buoys in addition to coastal courses. Three those held in all other IRC and ORC classes, all on inshore courses.
Among maxis, it is Peter Ogden’s 77 “Jethou that leads the ranking by a margin, ahead of Karel Komarek’s Wallycento V. On the rise is the performance of the Judel/Vrolijk 80 Capricorn of Alessandro Del Bono, with a clearly progressing scoring, 6-4-5-2-1, which brings it into third place on equal points with V. Still behind, however, is the ClubSwan 80 MySong, which does not yet seem to have found the right balance between reliability, performance and IRC compensated time performance. Good performance in strong winds for Roberto Lacorte’s FlyingNikka, the Flying 61” won three of the five races on IRC handicap time.
The IRC 1 ranking instead sees the Cape 31 Give me Five 31 in the lead, ahead of the Ton 52 Arkas, provisional third place for the Per 46 Searcher. In IRC 2 the Dufour 40 Flying Dolphin is in the lead, ahead of the X-35 Le Lupin, third the JPK 1010 Expresso 3. The ORC 1 ranking instead sees Alberto Magnani’s Swan 45 Thenger in the lead, second place for the Swan 45 Thetis, third for the Swan 48 Elan. In ORC 2 Davide Noli’s IY 998 Farfallina leads, ahead of the J/99 J Lab, third the Proto Manida.
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