The price includes Professional Skipper, all boat and race costs and meals when racing. Additional costs include flights, transfers, meals and accommodation ashore and personal insurance.
The Mediterranean’s Quintessential Offshore Race. The Rolex Middle Sea Race encompasses one of the most scenic and tactically challenging courses in the world.
Starting from the Grand Harbour in Valletta, beneath Fort St Angelo and the Saluting Battery, the fleet heads northeast along the coast of Sicily, towards the Straits of Messina. You can usually spot Mount Etna and hear the Volcano rumble.
The course heads north from the Straits in the direction of Stromboli, another active volcano, where the yachts then turn west to the Egadi Islands. After reaching Favignana the fleet heads south towards the island of Lampedusa with the island of Pantelleria on their port side. Once they have passed Lampedusa the fleet is on the home straight towards Malta and the finish at Marsamxett Harbour.
Join the crew of Swan 53, Skye to take on the challenge of this 606 nautical mile race, where the demanding and often changeable conditions means that everyone has to be on their A Game.
Tuesday 14th October: Crew arrive
Wednesday 15th October: Training Day / Coastal Race
Thursday 16th October: Training Day
Friday 17th October: Boat Preparation
Saturday 18th October: Race Start
Saturday 25th October: Prizegiving
The skipper is Peter Hopps. Peter is a commercially endorsed yacht master instructor and examiner and has been working full time in the sailing industry since 1995. He has extensive experience both racing and cruising on both his own yacht a Sigma 38 and on other yachts. He has spent the last 7 winters in the Caribbean and has completed in all the different regattas multiple times, alongside many transAtlantic crossing and more racing in the UK and Europe during the summer months.
Previous offshore experience is required and at least 30% of the crew must have completed training to Section 6 of the World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations. We would therefore strongly encourage you to have completed your ISAF Offshore safety and sea survival
The race starts and ends in Valetta, Malta. The nearest airport is Malta International Airport, which is approximately a 20 minute drive to Valetta. Scheduled flights are available with Malta’s national carrier Air Malta, as well as other airlines including Air France, KLM, Swissair, Turkish Airlines, Emirates, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Easyjet and WizzAir.
Accommodation is available onboard on a first come, first served basis. Alternatively crew are welcome to arrange accommodation ashore for before and after the race.
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