Les Voiles d’Antibes - Trophée Panerai
Les Voiles d'Antibes - Trophée Panerai, a major celebration of yachting.
Launched in 1996, Les Voiles d'Antibes, held annually around the first week of June, are opening up the Mediterranean circuit for Tradition and Metric Classes yachts and the first stage of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge. Les Voiles d'Antibes - Trophée Panerai welcome every year a selection of the finest vintage yachts (built before 1950), Classic Yachts (built before 1976) and Spirit of Tradition Yachts and Classes metric (6 MJI, 8mJI MJI competitors and 12 America's Cup from 1958 to 1987), which have been shaping, since the late nineteenth century, the great history of International Yachting.
For most participants, this prestigious gathering, represents the first major event of the Mediterranean season. With the return of the spring, yachts have returned to their home ports in the Mediterranean. Some have undergone renovations and upgrades to optimize their performance, others were sold or have changed their crews. As a result, participants are renewed each year around a core of boats such as mythical Ikra, Sovereign, Thendara, Lelantina, Outlaw, Adria, Cambria Tuiga, Moonbeam IV, Stella Polare, Marigold, Lulu or who have long been present at all races. Each year, between five and fifteen new boats appear on the circuit. They come out of recent restorations and renovations. Antibes being the first gathering of the season, sailors, owners and crew discover them and tell new stories contributing to the feast ashore.
Appreciated for the quality of its regattas (Match Race for metric classes and coastal courses along the 23-km coast between the Bay of Antibes and Juan les Pins for other classes) and the friendly atmosphere that exists back onto land, Les Voiles d'Antibes - Trophée Panerai is certainly one of the flagship events on the Mediterranean circuit. Les Voiles d'Antibes - Trophée Panerai are also - in the best tradition of Yachting - 5 days of entertainment and conviviality back at the dock.
The ashore welcome is certainly the warmest of the circuit: organized around a village built on the theme of celebration and conviviality, nested into the Port Vauban ramparts. Antibes, world-famous for its Jazz Festival, needed to combine music with sailing with every day from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. numerous exhibitions and interesting events on the themes of the Sea and the Environment as well as cocktails, concerts, parades and many other surprises and challenges that every night cheerfully and joyfully the Village of Sails and the Port Vauban, the first yachting marina in Europe.
In addition to the Village host areas, every day, Panerai welcomed with kindness and elegance yachts owners and crews at the Panerai Lounge.
55 Classical Yacht raced for the Panerai prestigious prizes and Moonbeam IV, Leonore, Arcadia and Savannah triumphed in Les Voiles d’Antibes - Trophée Panerai.
Grazzie Panerai !
Every day, Panerai welcomed with kindness and elegance yachts owners and crews at the Panerai Lounge, meeting place for commenting on the post-regatta and watch movies of events at sea on Tv while sipping a drink or savoring an Italian speciality.
By sponsoring for the eighth consecutive year The Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge 2012, the leading international regatta circuit for vintage yachts, Officine Panerai works to protect and promote the culture of classic yachts on behalf of his own story about the sea (official provider to the Italian Marine) and the values of beauty, classic, craft and excellence that gives a classic yacht its uniqueness, like that of a luxury watch. More than 500 of the most beautiful vintage sailing yachts still afloat are expected to participate in the 10 regattas making up the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge 2012 calendar. The Panerai Lounge will, of course, be open at each one of these events and will, as it does every year, welcome thousands of owners, sailors, journalists and enthusiasts as they immerse themselves in a world of beauty, nature and history for a few precious days. At the end of each stage of the Mediterranean Circuit of the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge, Officine Panerai will present a prize to the top three ranking yachts in the Vintage, Classic, Big Boats and Spirit of Tradition classes and a special Officine Panerai prize to the overall top ranking yacht of each class.
Following its commitment to promoting the culture of the era of sail, the Florentine brand has restored Eilean, the famous Bermudian ketch launched in 1936, a saved wealth of history and beauty, that this year, for the first time after various years, returned to sail the Atlantic Ocean to Antigua to open the 2012 season. To celebrate the return of Eilean to sea, Officine Panerai has created a unique edition of navigation instruments: a barometer, hygrometer, thermometer and a wall clock, all made of stainless steel and customized with the Eilean logo. It has also created an exclusive edition of the Marine Chronometer. This has a suspension system which enables the clock to remain in a horizontal position at all times, regardless of the pitching and rolling of the boat, making one of the instruments most useful navigational instruments.
All the seafarers have said «Thank you Panerai !» for its support and generosity.
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