The award of the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup 2025 will be held on Saturday, September 13, at 17: 30 at the iconic Piazza Azzurra of the YCCS

The test will play two world crowns: the Rolex IMA Maxi 1 World Championship and the Rolex IMA Grand Prix World Championship. Both titles will be held in a program consisting of three days of coastal testing by the archipelago of La Maddalena and two of barlovento-sotavento-format races.

• The Maxi 1 class has nine participants between 80 and 100 feet long (between 25 and 30.5 meters). Among those who will fight for the title is the innovative Magic Carpet E (30.5 meters), owned by Sir Lindsay Owen Jones. Bottled in 2024 and designed by Guillaume Verdier, it has ultra-clear interiors of Axel de Beaufort for Hermès. Among its rivals are four ships of its own length: the Wallycento Galateia, Tilakkhana and V, and the Farr 100 Leopard 3. He will also face ClubSwan 80 My Song (26 meters), JV82 Capricorno (25 meters), Botin 85 Deep Blue (26 meters) and Wally 93 Bullitt (28.5 meters) of the YCCS Commodore, Andrea Recordati.
• The Grand Prix class brings together eight ships that previously belonged to the Maxi 72 class (between 21.5 and 23.5 meters in length), including the Jolt and the Django 7X, new to the first and third positions respectively at the Admiral's Cup. Balthasar, Bella Minte, Jethou, North-Star, Proteus and Vesper complete an impressive fleet that will play the world title in Porto Cervo.
• The Maxi 3 is the largest division, with 14 registered ships, including three Baltic 68 Café Racers (20.73 meters) designed by the Spanish Javier Jáudenes: Open Season, Ganesha and Scorpione Horma, launched this year. The Maxi 4 class has nine participants, including the Swan 601 @ robas and Durlindana IV (at the low end of the range of length, with 18.30 meters), the Vallicelli 78 H2O (23.8 meters) and the Swan 651 Lunz Am Meer (20 meters).

One more year, Spanish participation will again be numerous at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup. The V68 Pelotari Project by Andrés Varela Entrecanas will be the only participant in the Spanish pavilion and crew, but another 24 ships of the fleet will be nourished by regatists from Spain. On board the revolutionary Magic Carpet E will compete Xabi Fernández, Antonio "Ñeti" Cuervas- Mons, Willy Altadill, Miguel Jáuregui, Carlos Hernández, Juan Meseguer; in the Moat, Gonzalo Araujo, Juanlu Páez, Alejandro Echevarría, Nicolás Pesich, Marc Terrasa, Toño Piris and Óscar Ibáñez; in the Balthasar, Simbad Quiroga, Javier de la Plaza, Pablo Arararte and Diego Torrado;... Other common names will not be missing from the international fleet such as Joan Vila (navigator of the Artemis Blaeu), Diego Fructuoso (tactical of the Aegir), Guillermo Altadill, Nacho Braquehais, Roberto Bermudez, Jaime Arbons, Nacho Postigo, Javier Jáudenes, Pedro Mas, David Vera, Victor Mariño, Pablo Torrado, Matthew Barber,... Thus, up to 71 regatists who confirm that the projects of the exclusive Maxi universe.