The Richard Mille Cup will take place for the second year in a row starting in June 2024.
Prepare to be swept away into the world of vintage yachting as well as timekeeping as the Richard Mille Cup returns for its second edition, set to take place from June 2nd to June 15th, 2024. Following last year’s success of its inaugural event, the Richard Mille Cup is poised to grace the waters with a fleet of around 12 pre-World War II historic yachts, racing in stages from Falmouth to Le Havre down the English Channel.
As in the previous year, the Cup is expected to attract classic boat aficionados, collectors, and hundreds of onlookers, as exciting inshore races are staged at the four host ports: Falmouth, Dartmouth, Cowes, and Le Havre. The vintage sailing yachts will also conduct races between the four ports, including two overnight races from Dartmouth to Cowes and Cowes to Le Havre.
The yachts racing in the Richard Mille Cup date back to the 19th century and into the 1930’s.
The yachts, dating from the end of the 19th century to the late 1930s, will compete in Schooner and Cutter categories, and will include some of the great designs including Mariquita (1911), Moonbeam III (1903) and Moonbeam IV (1920).
Specially commissioned for the inaugural regatta, the meter-high Richard Mille Cup itself was designed by Garrard, jewelers to the British Royal Family for the last 300 years and the designer of the America’s Cup some 170 years ago.
“This is the ideal environment to admire the magnificence and beauty of these classic yachts from the pre-war era, and the involvement of the Yacht Clubs allows owners and admirers alike to come together in the true spirit of the event,” says Richard Mille.
The Richard Mille Cup 2023, which will take place again this year in June 2024.
