The Europe Race-Palamos(ESP)-Blanes(ESP)

As an armchair sailor you may dream of ripping up 100 dollar notes as fast as you can, under a cold shower, deprived from sleep, doing an ice-bucket challenge every 5 minutes. For the real life thing, please sign up with folks like Bekking, Cauldrier, Boris Herman or Rosalin Kuiper

For the next best thing we offer you to participate in this years edition of The Europe Race series, in the sailing simulator SailAway. Racing the Sailaway IMOCA 60 in some 40 – 800 NM oceangoing races. During the season there will be some 90+ races all around Europe. Participate in a minimum of 7 races.

We invite sailors to join us in places like Odessa (UKR), or in Klaipeda (LIT) for a series of races going from European Seaport to European Seaport.

Boats are scored overall by their rating achieved in races from September 1st 2024 till August 30th 2025 .

THE RACE

The Europe Race race series will be conducted using the virtual sailing game Sailaway in its latest installment
The Europe Race race series will start on September 1st 2024 with the warning signal of the first race at 17:00 UTC and start at 17:10 UTC




SCHEDULE


Regular races will be scheduled from Sept 1st 2024 til March. 31sth 2025 Regular races are scheduled to start on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Fridays race will start 17:10 UTC
Saturdays race will start 14:10 UTC
Sundays race will start 12:10 UTC
There may be Coastal Short Races replacing any and all races
Any start of a race may be postponed to a start time later that same day, without further notice.
There may be more races than mentioned in the Notice of Race without further notice.
Races will be published in Sailaway more than 24 hrs before the preparatory signal.
Additionally race results of various races can be added to the rating for The Europe race.
Examples:
The Hague Iceland Back to Back 2025
The Sailaway Newport Bermuda race 2025
The Sailaway Admiral’s Cup 2025
The Sailaway Fastnet race 2025



COURSE

The course for the The Europe Race rac

HOGA

IMOCA 2 - HG

IMOCA - Kooka 60

Admiral

Admiral IMOCA 59.97

Sailaway Imoca 60