Rallies
World Cruising Club Events
120 High Street,, Cowes PO31 7AX, UK
Tel:+44 (0)1983 296060, Fax:+44 (0)1983 295959
www.worldcruising.com, mail@worldcruising.com
Rallies include:
World ARC. Circumnavigation starting Caribbean January 2010.
Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC). Annual transatlantic Rally every November from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to St. Lucia.
ARC Europe. Annual transatlantic return trip every May from Antigua and Florida to Lagos, Portugal via Bermuda and the Azores.
Rally Portugal. Annual cruise in company down the coast of Portugal every June, from Plymouth, UK to Lagos, Portugal.
Classic Malts Cruise. Annual celebration of whisky in the Scottish Western Isles, every July.
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KAYRA
Ataköy Marina Yacht Club, Ataköy, Istanbul, Turkey
Tel:+90 212 560 41 10
yalcindulger@atakoymarina.com.tr
KAYRA - Black Sea Rally. Highly successful rally organized by Ataköy Marina Yacht Club based on the shores of the Bosporus. The rally visits all countries bordering on the Black Sea. Also organise the Marmara Yacht Rally around the Sea of Marmaris.
EMYR (Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Rally)
Park Kemer Marina EMYR, P.O. Box 208, Kemer 07980 Antalya--Turkiye
http://www.emyr.org/, info@emyr.org
Since 1990 yachtsmen from all over the world have converged on Turkey to participate in the Eastern Mediterranean Yacht Rally visiting eastern Turkey, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt.
Gallipoli Yacht Rally
http://www.gallipoliyachtrally.com.au
The Gallipoli Yacht Rally program includes sightseeing in Istanbul and sailing down the Aegean to the Turkish ports of Kabatepe, Bozcaada, Assos, Ayvalik, Foca, Cesme, Sigacik and Kusadasi. The program also allows for a series of up to ten races to be held and includes visits to the historic sites of Gallipoli, Troy, Pergamon, Ephesus and Istanbul.
Med Red Rally
www.med-red-rally.com
The Med Red Rally 2011 went around the Mediterranean in a convoy of large sailing yachts, starting in Marmaris, Turkey in April and on to major spots in Israel and Egypt, squeezes through the Suez Canal and winds up in the Red Sea ending in May. See website for further details.
Vasco de Gama Rally
info@vascodagamarally.nl
Annual Rally between Cochin, India and Turkey.
2012: Due to the pirate threat rally will run from Alanya, Turkey to Massawa and back. Departure: September 22, 2012 and return May 2013.
Darwin to Kupang Rally/Race
www.sailindonesia.net, mail@sailindonesia.net
Annual event in late July from Darwin to West Timor, continues to Bali. Organized by PORLASI (Indonesian Sailing Federation), participants obtain compulsory Indonesian cruising permit as part of the entry fee.
Red Sea Rally
www.redsearally.com
Organised by same people as the Vasco da Gama Rally which sailed from Turkey to India in 2005-2006 and again in 2007. finishing early March in Mumbai, India.
Vasco de Gama Rally [see above]
Around Australia Race and Rally
www.sailaroundaustralia.com.au , info@sailaroundaustralia.com.au
Inaugural event was planned for January 2011. This has now been postponed. No future date confirmed.
Baja Ha Ha Rally
2, Apollo Road, , Tiburon, , CA 94920
www.baja-haha.com
San Diego (California) to Cabo San Lucas (Mexico)
Every year late October/early November. No email address as organisers only deal with mail enquiries. Information about the current year's rally available in May.
Brisbane to Vanuatu Rally
www.sailingvanuatu.com, adprofke@bigpond.com
Annual rally to Luganville, via Chesterfield and Huon Reefs. These Rallies support Medical and Educational needs in Vanuatu. In 2011 12 yachts took part. Contact Alan or Debra Profke by email for more information.
Island Cruising Association (ICA)
John and Lyn Martin, P.O. Box 534 Paihia BOI, New Zealand
http://www.islandcruising.co.nz/index.php, john@islandcruising.co.nz
The ICA organises a series of cruising rallies in the South West Pacific:
Pangaimotu Pirates Rally - MAY - Opua, NZ to Tonga.
Western Pacific Rally - MAY - Opua, NZ to Vanuatu, Solomons, Louisiades of Papua New Guinea, East Coast of Australia, Tasmania, Nelson, NZ. 10 month event.
Tusker Beer Vanuatu Rally - MAY - Opua, NZ to Vanuatu.
Pacific Circuit Rally - NOVEMBER - Tonga to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and back to NZ via Norfolk Island. Next in 2013.
All Point Rally - NOVEMBER - Annual Free Rally from Tonga to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Opua, NZ.
See website for more details.
Louisiades Rally
Cairns to Louisiades Archipelgao, 100nm East of mainland PNG
Tel:+61 (0)7 40558132, mobile: +61 (0) 407 391211
www.louisiadesrally.com , louisiadesrally@ecosustainability.com
Annually September-November - check website details.
Cairns Australia (Yorkeys Knob Boating Club) to the Lousiades Archiplelago in Papua New Guinea.
Pacific Puddle Jump
www.pacificpuddlejump.com, andy@latitude38.com
The Pacific Puddle Jump rally is an annual migration of private sailing yachts leaving various points on the west coast of the Americas, but all bound for French Polynesia. Via radio nets and electronic communications they share information on preparation, weather routing, and inter-island cruising.
Because the fleet does not depart from the Americas on one single date, their arrivals in French Polynesia can be anytime in April, May or June. Due to the broad-based nature of the fleet, many of the boat crews will meet for the first time when they arrive in the islands.
Organised by Latitude 38, 5 Locust Ave,Mill Valley, CA 94941. Tel - (415) 383-8200 x112
Port2Port Rally
www.bcyc.net.au , info@bcyc.net.au
Vanuatu and New Caledonia to Bundaberg, Queensland. Organised by the Bundaberg Cruising Yacht Club. End of October every year - 20011 will be the 12th year.
The rally consists of cruisers from many nations, many of them circumnavigators who use the rally as a fun way to finish their Pacific crossing, with many children taking part as part of a family adventure.
Sydney to Hobart Rally 2013
See the details at
http://www.noonsite.com/Members/val/R2011-10-22-1 , cycacruising@gmail.com
A rally planned to take place in January and February 2013.
TRANSPAC Los Angeles to Hawaii (Honolulu)
Transpacific Yacht Club
Tel:+1 949 646 5129
www.transpacificyc.org, transpacificyc@sbglobal.net
Transpac 2011 - Two Started First Monday July 4, Second Friday, July 8. Check website for details.
Tasmania - Biennial Circumnavigation Cruise
www.ryct.org.au
Run by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania. 2011 commenced in mid-February 2011. The five week cruise
circumnavigates anti-clockwise, and typically includes cruising yachts and motor yachts from all Australian states, and occasionally yachts from the US, UK and NZ.
Fleet size is limited to 45 vessels. See website for details.
The Van Diemens Land Circumnavigation
www.ryct.org.au
Cruise is a well-established (commencing 1990), world-class event conducted every two years or so by the Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania (VDL-C). The event is a cruise-in-company involving an 800 nautical mile circumnavigation of Australia's island state of Tasmania.
2011 VDL-C Cruise began in Hobart on Wednesday 16th February 2011 and returned to Hobart in March 2011.
See website for details.
Darwin Dili Yacht Rally
http://www.sailtimorleste.org/index.php, mail@sailtimorleste.org
Started 9 July 2011 at 1100 hours, Darwin Harbour, Australia and finishes in Dili Harbour, Timor-Leste. The course will be from the Start Line in Darwin Harbour, Australia, leaving Jaco Island to port, to the Finish Line off the city of Dili, Timor-Leste, a distance of around 426 NM.
The Sail Timor-Leste Darwin Dili Yacht Rally is a web based event, organised and managed using the internet and email only; we do not use telephone, mail or fascimile. Please always include the name of your yacht in the subject line of all emails to us.
Return to Australia
http://www.sailindonesia.net/home/home.php, mail@sailindonesia.net
New from the organsiers of "Sail Indonesia". Annual Sailing Rally departing from Borneo following the East passage during the April 2012 "transition" weather period. The rally officially terminates in Western Irian Jaya, however many boats go on to Darwin from around Ambon. For more information see the website.
Sail BIMP-EAGA
Exploring Equator-Asia
http://www.bruneibay.net/SailBIMP-EAGA/index.html
Annual programme of four yacht cruises designed to highlight the cultural attractions and amazing biodiversity of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Started in 2009. Detailed rally information on website.
Sail Indonesia
http://www.sailindonesia.net/home/home.php, mail@sailindonesia.net
Annual Sailing Rally that departs Darwin mid-July. Three month program of linked events across Indonesia that are supported by the Indonesian Central Government and the Local Government Centres at the destinations visited.
Sail Indonesia 2012 starts from Darwin on July 28th 2012.
Check website for details.
Sail Malaysia
http://www.sailmalaysia.net/
Rally - Passage to the East, from May to August, across Malaysia, from Langkawi to Sabah.
Sydney to Hobart Rally 2013
Tonga’s Annual Regatta Vava’u for 2011
Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta
Heading to Australia later this year?
Fremantle to Bali Rally sets sail 23 April 2011
Welcome to America!
The Inaugural Neptune Regatta
New Vasco de Gama Rally from India to Turkey in 2011
Raja Muda Selangor International Regatta (RMSIR)
Sail Indonesia 2010
The Three Peaks Yacht Race
Rudder Problems for World ARC Yacht on passage from Panama to Galapagos
Port2Port 2010 Yacht Rally - Vanuatu & New Caledonia to Port Bundaberg
Louisiades Rally, Its on Again for 2010
200+ yachts to sail Around Australia Race and Rally in 2011
World Cruising Club Announces 2010 Events
Circumnavigation cruise of Tasmania in 2011
Largest ever ARC Europe Fleet Prepares for Transatlantic Rally
The Grenada Round-the-Island Race
CLASSIC MALTS CRUISE NEWS
Port2Port Rally 2009
Party Like It Is 1608
St.Maarten-St.Martin Classic Yacht Regatta
Med Red Rally 2008 - A Summary
Cook Islands Clean-up by World ARC Crews
Cruise in company to Papua New Guinea from Queensland
Phuket Kings Cup Regatta Final Results
Summer Sailstice
http://www.summersailstice.com/
Taking place every year on the weekend closest to the summer solstice, Summer Sailstice is an international event celebrating sailing.
Summer Sailstice 2011 was on weekend of June 18th. Check the website for details.
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