Following Balthasar’s overall victory in 2025, Giovanni Lombardi Stronati’s wallyrocket 71 Django 7x has won this year’s Rolex Middle Sea Race, beating Louis Balcaen’s Maxi 72 Balthasar into second place by 1 hour 21 minutes 20 seconds
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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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