As an armchair sailor you may dream of ripping up 100 dollar notes as fast as you can, under a cold shower, deprived of 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 your boat of choice in some 7 NM to 800 NM long oceangoing races. During the season there will be some 90+ races all around Europe. Participate in a minimum of 7 races to acquire a valid rating.
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 October 4th 2025 till June 30th 2026 .Races are scored on handicap by applying a Time Correction Factor based on average polar of the boat design.

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 October 4th 2025 with the warning signal of the first race at 12:00 UTC and start at 12:10 UTC

SCHEDULE

Regular races will be scheduled from Oct 4th 2025 til June 30th 2026 Regular races are scheduled to start on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
Fridays race will start 17:10 UTC
Saturdays race will start 12:10 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
The Sailaway Sydney - Hobart Race
The Sailaway Newport Bermuda race
The Sailaway Admirals Cup
The Sailaway Fastnet race
The Sailway North Sea Regatta
The Sailway Hamburg - Reykjavik Regatta
The Bottni Bay Regatta

RACE COURSES

The courses for the The Europe Race races in general are from the start line in the starting city to the finish line at the finishing city. There are no further marks.
Courses will be published on Sailaway, however can be changed up to 1 hr before the start.
Boats are to be located in the starting area at less then 1 NM from the strart line no later than 60 minutes before the start. From aproximately 60 minutes before the start the course may have to be refereshed. This may require log off, log on and changing to and from an other boat. Rounding marks, passing gates may be added to any course without further notice.

PRISES

The only prise awarded (at the publication of this news article)
Is a J-Class boat designed by J.C.J naval architects of choice for the winning Nordic Folkboat on corrected time of any of the races, or affiliated races with a length of over 500 NM.