10° EditionVendée Globe

10 November 2024

The Vendée Globe is a solo, non-stop, unassisted round-the-world yacht race that takes place every four years. It is contested in IMOCA 60s, which are 60-foot monohulls. The skippers set off from Les Sables-d’Olonne in Vendée, covering about 45,000 kilometers around the globe, rounding the three legendary capes (Cape of Good Hope, Cape Leeuwin, and finally Cape Horn) before returning to Les Sables d’Olonne. The race has gained international fame, attracting skippers from all over the world. Beyond the competition, it is above all an incredible human adventure.

SINGLE-HANDED, NON-STOP, AND UNASSISTED

The Vendée Globe is currently the most prestigious sailing race in the world, taking place solo, non-stop, and without assistance. This event follows in the footsteps of the Golden Globe, which in 1968 marked the first such circumnavigation, passing through the three capes: Good Hope, Leeuwin, and Horn. Of the nine adventurers who set off in 1968, only one managed to return to Falmouth, the main port of Cornwall, England. On April 6, 1969, after 313 days at sea, the British Robin Knox-Johnston achieved his goal. Twenty years later, navigator Philippe Jeantot, after winning the BOC Challenge (a solo round-the-world race with stops), proposed a new competition: a solo race, but non-stop. Thus, the Vendée Globe was born. On November 26, 1989, thirteen sailors embarked on the first edition, which would last more than three months, but only seven of them would manage to return to Les Sables d’Olonne.

THE COURSE

45,000 kilometers, or 24,300 miles: that’s the distance of the theoretical round-the-world course for sailors. A revolution achieved in a record time of 74 days and 3 hours during the eighth edition of the Vendée Globe, in 2016-2017. This planetary voyage is above all a climatic journey down the Atlantic, across the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, then up the Atlantic again… The program includes a mid-autumn departure from Les Sables d’Olonne, a journey through the South Seas in the middle of the austral summer, and a winter return to Vendée.

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YCM Awards - UBS Trophy

 December 2025

Every year to close the season, HSH Prince Albert II pays tribute to the Club’s sailors at the YCM Awards for the UBS trophy which recognises young competitors in the Sports Section, as well as members and owner/helmsmen who are competing at the highest level.

Prizes are awarded in two categories: the YCM Youth Awards (Optimist, ILCA and Kite categories) and the YCM Awards for society members who have best defended the Club’s flag during the regatta season.

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Reminder: Every year to round off the season, Yacht Club de Monaco and its President HSH Prince Albert II pay tribute to its sailors at the YCM Awards which includes the coveted UBS Trophy. These reward young competitors in the Sports Section as well as members, owners/helmsmen, who are racing at the highest level as true ambassadors of the Club.

Selection criteria:

Be an Active or Associate Member of the Club

Have obtained at least three significant results during the year

Have raced in regattas, ideally as helmsman

Be registered under the YCM flag

Display the “MON” sail number

Participating regularly in regattas organised by the Club is an additional advantage

Palmares 2024

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Graeme Peterson

YCM Sailor of the Year

Charles de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles

Smeralda 888 International Championship 2024

Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio

J/70

Oceane Schroeder

YCM Youth Awards

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Nominee 2024

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Joost Schuijff

Leopard 3

1er – Antigua 360 Race
1er – RORC Caribbean 600 (IRC)
1er – Rolex IMA Maxi 1 World Championship (Maxi 1)

Kostia Belkin

Viola

1er – La Mise en Bouche – Général
1er – Grandi Vele
2e – Puig Vela Clàssica (Epoque aurique)

Benoît de Froidmont

Wallyno

2e – IMA Maxi European Championship (Maxi 4)
1er – Loro Piana Giraglia Inshore Race (IRC 0 Maxi B)
2e – Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez (Maxi MAC)

Graeme Peterson

Moonlight

3e – 40e Primo Cup-Trophée UBS (J/70)
2e – Swan Sardinia Challenge(ClubSwan50)
1er – Rolex Swan Cup (Swan50)

Massimiliano Feruzzi

II Moro Di Venezia

1er – Grandi Regate Internazionali
1er – Vela & Sapori
2e – Argentario Sailing Week

Vladimir Prosikhin

Team Nika

1er – 44Cup Calero Marinas
1er – 44Cup World Championship
1er – Miami Winter Series Event 2 (Melges 20)

Awards 2023

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Nico Poons

YCM Sailor of the Year

Charles de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles

Smeralda 888 International Championship 2023

Ludovico Fassitelli

J/70

Noah Garcia

YCM Youth Awards

50%

Members' vote

25%

Public vote

25%

Sports Section

REPLAY | 2022 Ceremony

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Awards 2022

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Pierrik Devic

Noah Garcia

Ludovico Fassitelli

Charles de Bourbon-Siciles

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The 2021 Awards

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Giangiacomo Serena di Lapigio

YCM Sailor of the year 2021

Mathis Duplomb

YCM Youth Award

Tomaso Polli

Special Prize

Francesco Vauban

Smeralda 888

since 2005

Past Winners

  • 2018 : Andres Soriano
  • 2017 : Pierre Casiraghi
  • 2016 : Vincenzo Onorato
  • 2015 : Vladimir Prosikhin
  • 2014 : Roberto Tomasini Grinover
  • 2013 : Valentin Zavadnikov
  • 2012 : Igor Simcic
  • 2011 : Guido Miani
  • 2010 : Daniel Meyers
  • 2009 : Nico Poons
  • 2008 : Guido Miani
  • 2007 : Gianluca Perris
  • 2006 : Klaus Peter-Offen
  • 2005 : Leonardo Ferragamo
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Oktoberfest

October 2025 : Ein Prosit

More than a tradition… the Yacht Club de Monaco’s Oktoberfest is now an institution. Under the impetus of Anne-Marie Winkler and Laila Schlereth, surrounded by numerous members of the ever-active German community, the Y.C.M. is decked out in white and blue to transform itself into a grand Bavarian brasserie. Every year, this event brings together some 500 Club members, all lovers of “good foam”, dressed in a “Dirndl”, an apron dress for the women and a “Lederhose” for the men…

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Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series

NOV. 2024 - MARCH 2025

In line with the YCM’s sailing policy, having been initiated in the Melges 20 class in 2013 at the instigation of Valentin Zavadnikov, then the J/70s, the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series is a monthly programme of regattas and training weekends for one-design boats from December to March.

It has proved a very successful format with more than 350 sailors coming from across Europe to set up their winter training base in the Principality to prepare for the upcoming season’s big meetings.

  • Act I : 7-10 November 2024
  • Act II : 5-8 December 2024
  • Act III : 6-9 February 2025
  • Act IV : 6-9 March 2025 Primo Cup - UBS Trophy

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High flying spectacle

36th Primo Cup – Trophée Credit Suisse J/70, Smeralda 888, Longtze Premier, Melges 20 and L30…

Six classes set for 36th edition

36th Primo Cup – Trophée Credit Suisse J/70, Smeralda 888, Longtze Premier, Melges 20 and L30…

Brutus pips Arttube to the post

7th Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series   Sunday 19th January 2020 - It took one small point to…

Brutus takes the lead with Arttube in hot pursuit

7th Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series   Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series, with 45 teams from 13…

7th Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series

Junda still in the lead   Thursday 16th January 2020. Races for Act 3 of the Monaco Sportsboat…

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