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Richard Mille sponsors new classic cross-Channel race
The first Richard Mille Cup will take place in 2023, with racing for classic yachts on both sides of the English Channel.
Entry will be open to “invited owners and charterers of yachts built before 1939 or faithful replicas of such yachts. The minimum size of any yacht eligible to enter will be 10m length at the waterline”.
It will be raced under the CIM handicap system, one of the first times CIM has been used on the English side of the Channel. All yachts entering will have to provide a valid CIM certificate.
There is also a new cup being prepared for the event. The Richard Mille Cup is a perpetual trophy standing a metre high. The winner will be presented with a 40cm high replica also made by Garrard.
The announcement comes after the setting up of a classic boat hub in Brest, France, earlier this year, with impetus coming from the new owner of (1920), Richard Mille, the owner of (1911), Benoit Couturier, together with the owner of (1903), who have all moved those boats to the Breton port, with French sailor Jack Caraes as team manager. William Collier, managing director of GL Watson & Co, who was instrumental in the boats changing hands, is consulting on refit and restoration issues.
