The opening event in the International Maxi Association’s 2026-27 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge sets sail at 1100 tomorrow, Saturday with the Royal Malta Yacht Club’s Rolex Middle Sea Race. Among the 108 competing yachts a giant maxi fleet of 22 is taking part
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A second place to Sir Peter Ogden’s 77ft Jethou in Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez’s Maxi 1 class was enough to hand Karel Komárek’s 100ft V the IMA’s coveted Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge (MMIC) title for 2026.
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With a day lost due to a failing wind yesterday off the Baie de Pampelonne, today Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez’s maxi race committee sent the Maxi 100 and Maxi Grand Prix racers (combined here in the Maxi 1 class) off on a 28-mile coastal southwest towards Cavalaire-sur-Mer, while Maxi 2, 3 and 4 for the first time raced two windward-leewards with the three Js. Once again this took place in a light easterly but with a much-subdued version of Tuesday’s evil seastate
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Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez’s record-sized maxi fleet of 51 for a second day saw Maxi 1 and the J Class racing windward-leewards from the Baie de Pampelonne, while Maxi 3, 4 and 5 were dispatched southwest on a 28 mile coastal course to a mark off Cavalaire-sur-Mer
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Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez, the final event of the International Maxi Association’s 2026 Mediterranean Maxi Inshore Challenge got underway today with a record fleet of 51 maxis competing, including the welcome return of three J Class yachts – Svea, Hanuman and Rainbow, the latter two being campaigned by well-known maxi yacht owners Giovanni Lombardi Stronati (of Django fame) and Peter Harrison (Jolt, Sorcha, etc) respectively
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