This is a highly anticipated event in the yachting calendar with an exhilarating programme packed full of classic yachts and the recreation of historic inshore, coastal and offshore races starting in Falmouth, Cornwall and finishing in Le Havre in France.
With all of the vessels built or designed before 1940, the Richard Mille Cup has been created out of a passion for the beauty of great design and fine workmanship, for the love of competition and Classic yachts. It will recreate the spectacle, sporting values and elegance of the regatta circuits of the pre-war years.
- Saturday 10th June: registration
- Sunday 11th June: Falmouth Inshore race 1
- Monday 12th June: Falmouth Inshore Race 2
- Tuesday 13th June: Falmouth Inshore Race 3
- Wednesday 14th June: Race from Falmouth to Dartmouth
- Friday 16th June: race from Dartmouth to Cowes
- Tuesday 20th June: Cowes Inshore Race 1
- Wednesday 21st June: Cowes Inshore Race 2
- Thursday 22nd June: Cowes Inshore Race 3
- Friday 23rd June: race from Cowes to Le Havre.
- Start: Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Falmouth: 50° 9’ 9.256” NORTH, 5° 3’ 58.572” WEST
- Finish: Societe Des Regattes Du Havre: 49° 30’ 00” NORTH, 00° 07’ 59,99” WEST
Eligibility and Entry
Entry will be open to invited owners and charterers of yachts built before 1939, or faithful replicas of such yachts. The minimum size of any yacht eligible to enter will be 10M length at the waterline.