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A new place of entertainment and life in Port Hercules

Located on Quai Louis II, the YCM Gallery boutiques are an opportunity to indulge yourself with a little shopping by the sea in a lovely setting. Alongside the YCM Boutique, the YCM Gallery has four boutiques: BMW Store, Brooks Brothers, America’s longest established clothing brand (founded in 1818); Only Yacht, a Suisscourtage subsidiary specialized in superyacht insurance; and finally, the Wine Palace Monte-Carlo, one of the best and largest cellars in Europe with 2,300 references.

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Located at the heart of the Atrium, the YCM Boutique offers a range of exclusive items dedicated to the “Art de Vivre la Mer”. Guests can also purchase products, apart from Club ties, blazer badges, buttons, burgees and car badges, which are only for society members.

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Monte-Carlo Fashion Week to take place at Monaco Yacht Club

Posted by Jack Brodie, Editor-in-Chief | Apr 13, 2024 | Events

The official fashion event of the Principality is back with an increasingly international focus. The twelfth edition of Monte-Carlo Fashion Week will take place from Monday, April 22 until Friday, April 26, unveiling resort, cruise and capsule collections.

“We are proud to support Monegasque brands while also offering international fashion designers and personalities the Principality of Monaco as a prestigious showcase to present their collections and as a platform to discuss the importance of sustainable and circular fashion,” stated Federica Nardoni Spinetta, President and Founder of the Chambre Monégasque de la Mode and the Monte-Carlo Fashion Week.

In previous editions, the Monte-Carlo Fashion Week has seen the participation of brands and personalities such as Naomi Campbell, Alberta Ferretti and Philipp Plein, to name just a few.

Following the institutional opening at the Monaco Town Hall, the event will move to the prestigious venue of the Monaco Yacht Club, wherein a new initiative addressing violence against women will be revealed.

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Monaco Yacht Club: An Exclusive Oasis For Marine Lovers

Looking down on the Yacht Club from Monaco’s exclusive seawater Spa, “ Thermes Marins ”, the new club-house really is a magnificent icon of multi-decked architecture – inaugurated in 2014 and designed by internationally renowned architect Lord Norman Foster.

Only in the Principality’s marina could you confuse this giant structure for the yachts around it that it resembles – a yacht mirage with a gorgeous deck with luxurious swimming pool and terraces for dancing. Splendid enough for meetings of the most discerning yacht enthusiasts, including the glitterati and “Three Comma” billionaires that frequent it.

Yachts Beyond the Reach of Mere Mortals

Some of the largest and most expensive yachts in the world dock here to take in the city’s pleasures, particularly during the iconic Monaco Yacht Show. You can wander around marvelling at all of the gadgets designers can inlay on these boats like the 348-foot-long AMADEA one of the largest and most distinctive superyachts in the world with its six distinctive guest decks. Or perhaps gaze at the 365-foot-long TIS, one of the largest and most regal yachts to be launched this year.

These superyachts, like the Yacht Club itself are like private islands and wouldn’t look out of place in a James Bond movie. If billionaires Bernard Arnault or Larry Page or Larry Ellison come calling, Monaco Yacht Club sets the stage perfectly.

Home of the Grimaldi Dynasty

For over 600 years from the 12th century onwards, the Grimaldi stronghold at Port Hercule, including where the Yacht Club now preens itself, was one of the prized naval assets on the Mediterranean. Its strategic location served more than once to change the course of history.

It was around the time of the reign of Charles III of Monaco that the Principality’s reputation as an international haven of luxury and wealth took off. And Charles III had the vision to encourage the development of Monaco as a magnet for international regattas of renown to which the world flocked.

Historic Regatta Heaven

The first of these regattas were held in the bay of Monaco in 1862, so successful that in 1888 the “Société des Régates” was established by Prince Charles III and his son Prince Albert I , affectionately known as the “Oceanographer Prince”.

Almost a century of famous regattas preceded the founding in 1953 by Prince Rainier and presided over by Prince Albert II since 1984, the Yacht Club de Monaco. The Club brings together more than 2000 members from 66 nationalities. Many of the world’s most prestigious private yachts fly the Yacht Club de Monaco’s burgee, testimony to its unique position in the International yachting world.

Prince Albert’s Presidency

In April 1984, with Prince Albert’s Presidency, he developed new international events such as the Primo Cup, the biggest gathering of monotype yachts in the Mediterranean Sea. Prince Albert also put emphasis on classic Yachting with the organization from 1994 of the Monaco Classic Week for vintage and classic yachts, the Prada Challenge for Classic Yachts.

Notably, it was the first visit of Atlantic 2010 (replica of the 1903 three-mast schooner on which Charlie Barr in 1905 set the best time for an Atlantic crossing) to the Principality. Another icon, the SS Delphine (1921) steam-boat made a welcome return. It was aboard this beauty that three world leaders, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill, negotiated at least part of the 1945 Yalta Agreement.

Yacht Seasons are typically opened with ultra-private concerts at YCM with celebrities like Sir Elton John in 2016, Duran Duran in 2017, and Sting last year. It was yet another global star Lionel Richie singing “All Night Long” this September who delighted the many boat owners and YCM members. “All Night Long” was attended by YCM President, Prince Albert II and a host of international personalities including actor-producer Samuel L. Jackson, basketball legend Magic Johnson, Manchester United midfielder Paul Pogba and fashion designer Domenico Dolce, one of the two behind the eponymous brand D&G.

Regatta and Sports Heaven with a Golden Future

The Monaco Yacht Club from its beginnings embraced and has nurtured a prestige Regatta program that has accelerated and taken on new dimensions under Prince Albert’s Presidency.

It is worth mentioning the Primo Cup again as it has quickly established itself as the big meeting that opens the season in the Mediterranean for Europe’s one-design elite. Just a few other examples of stand-out Regattas enjoyed by YCMmembers include:

Monaco Swan One Design,  (9th-13th April 2019) organized in conjunction with the Yacht Club de Monaco,  was the first event in the 2019 Nations Trophy Mediterranean League.

Monaco Globe Week with the IMOCA 60  – 60-foot monohulls being among the fastest modern racing monohulls have raced on a course totalling 1,300 nautical miles embracing some of the most emblematic marks in the Western Mediterranean.

Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series  offers a monthly programme alternating high level regattas and training weekends for onedesigns.

As well as the Primo Cup another innovation worth a double mention here is  Monaco Classic Week. Persuaded that the reading of the past holds keys for the future Prince Albert fostered the creation and coordination during five years of a unique circuit for vintage and classic yachts, the Prada Challenge for Classic Yachts, without forgetting the acquisition of Tuiga in 1995, since becoming the flagship of the YCM. More recently the wave continued with the launching in 2005 of the “La Belle Classe” label.

The whole yachting world continues to look to Monaco to organize its most prestigious events. Within the last 12 months, 200 guests from the America’s Cup community from around the world gathered at the Yacht Club de Monaco to celebrate the launch of  the Prada Cup – the Challenger Selection Series for the 36th America’s Cup  to be presented by Prada in January 2021 in Auckland – deemed as “ the quest for oldest trophy in sport ”, the America’s Cup. Not to forget  World Rowing with the  Prince Albert II Challenge , a 6000m coastal race organised by the Societe Nautique de Monaco.

The Enthusiasm and Promise of Monaco’s Youth at YCM

Looking to the future is the Monaco Sports Academy which provides support to gifted young Monaco sailors and sportsmen taking on the world. The Academy is a close collaboration between the Yacht Club de Monaco, presided by Prince Albert and its General Secretary Bernard d’Alessandri, and Philippe Ghanem who is an active member of the Club. They share a common goal: to help young athletes living in Monaco reach the highest level in sport.

Also founded in 1970 by Prince Rainier III, the Sports Section of Y.C.M. adapts training to youngsters from as young as age six from initiation to competition and at every age.

Look out for the Monaco Optimist Team Race from 9-12 January 2020. The regatta is reserved for 20 teams of young sailors, all under 14. YCM invites the most competitive clubs with emphasis on tactics and above all team-work.

Full of youthful energy and promise is  the Monaco Solar & Energy Boat Challenge  next held on 30 June-4 July 2020. The Yacht Club de Monaco, in collaboration with the International Powerboating Federation (UIM) and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation organises the Solar & Energy Boat Challenge which is unique in the world.

How to become a new member of the Yacht Club

Anyone wishing to become a member of the Yacht Club de Monaco needs to be introduced by two “sponsors” from YCM. The sponsor’s letter of introduction will explain the applicant’s motives for joining the Club. Prince Albert, President of the Yacht Club, presides over the meetings of the admissions’ committee. The role of the sponsor is essential. The latter, must integrate him into the life of the Yacht Club, accompany him, present him to the other members but also involve him in organized events, whether they be social or sports.

The sponsor also undertakes to ensure that his “protégé” embraces the YCM’s philosophy and values, will actively engage in the Club’s life and keep its reputation at the pinnacle.

A Regal Club and Natural Host of Prestigious Events

The Yacht club reaches well beyond being a club for owners of yachts and superyachts. It is actually an immense infrastructure akin to a multi-tiered island that organises not only events connected to the yachts and regattas but also all kind of sports and social events, dances and entertainment. High society balls, conferences, exclusive business gatherings and prestigious auctions are just part of the kaleidoscope of activity.

The members of the club and their guests have at their disposition restaurants with Michelin Star chefs (including the exclusive 1909) gyms and a library – and a spa-zone, not to mention the gorgeous pool and terraces overlooking the azure bay. There is a truly great bar, a hive of social contact, with an international reputation and winner of awards for its unique cocktails and the skills of its bar staff. Endless discovery is to be found in each private niche of this island-club.

Playing Golf in the Riviera: tradition, wellness, glamour and «Dolce Vita»

Elite club world, pro club: fem galore — the long-awaited women’s club in monaco with a unique atmosphere, the infinite charm of horse riding on the riviera, spectacular monte -carlo polo trophy designed to capture hearts.

Black Jack - en route to line honours victory in June's Loro Piana Giraglia offshore race. She is favourite to repeat this in tomorrow's Palermo-Montecarlo. Photo: Loro Piana / Studio Borlenghi

Now optimised for racing offshore, the Balcaen family's former Maxi 72 Balthasar has huge pedigree previously as Alegre, Caol Ila R then as Notorious. Photo: IMA / Studio Borlenghi

Record under threat in the Palermo-Montecarlo

By the International Maxi Association

The 19 th  Palermo-Montecarlo yacht race sets sail from Sicily’s capital today (Tuesday 20 August), concluding the International Maxi Association’s 2023-24 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge, which started with last autumn’s Rolex Middle Sea Race. While the race is typically a light wind affair, this year it may not be so…

Organised by the Circolo della Vela Sicilia (CVS) in partnership with the Yacht Club de Monaco (YCM) and Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS), the course as usual will take the yachts through a gate off Porto Cervo, overseen by the YCCS. Competitors then have the option of racing through the Strait of Bonifacio and up the west coast of Corsica or taking the longer route leaving Corsica to port. The distance of the former is around 437 miles.

Among the 51 yacht entered this year are five maxis, competing in the race’s broader IRC fleet.

Favourite for line honours and the Giuseppe Tasca d’Almerita Trophy, is a boat very familiar with the course. The slender 100ft Black Jack won line honours under owner Peter Harburg last year as she did four times before as Igor Simčič’s Esimit Europa II. She returns this year under new Dutch owner Remon Vos. Since changing hands Black Jack won line honours in June’s Loro Piana Giraglia. On that occasion Vos was recovered from an unrelated injury, so Palermo-Montecarlo will be the first time he has sailed on board.

In 2015, as Esimit Europa II, Black Jack set the present race record of 47 hours, 46 minutes and 48 seconds. According to skipper Tristan le Brun their routing shows breaking the record as being possible this time, but warns the forecast is highly uncertain. “The weather is getting more and more interesting: It will be a fast upwind race at the start and a slower race at the end. It will be challenging past Bonifacio to predict what the wind will do – there is a hole in the wind, so right now we don’t know what we’ll have. It looks like it will be quite slow at the end.”

While typically the Palermo-Montecarlo is a mid-summer light airs race, on this occasion there is a strong Mistral blowing in the Golfe du Lion but since this is southeasterly, the navigators will have their work cut out finding the best route through the lee of mountainous Sardinia while the passage between Corsica and the finish is anyone’s bet.

Black Jack is unlikely to have it all her own way. While her crew is largely new to their new steed, the crew on Bryon Ehrhart’s 88ft Lucky not only is packed with former America’s Cup and Volvo Ocean Race winners but they have been campaigning her both as Lucky and as Rambler 88 for almost a decade.

“There will be quite a bit of upwind sailing – definitely for the first part of the race, approaching Porto Cervo,” anticipates Joca Signorini, past Volvo Ocean Race winner and Lucky’s tactician. Getting to the gate could be challenging: “We might have to approach from the east – not ideal because it means more distance and upwind. At the moment it looks like there is a narrow band of wind we’ll have to play on our way up there.

“On the second part, if we are lucky we’ll have wind.” At the moment the approach to Monaco is looking light, giving them a ‘best guess’ ETA as Thursday afternoon.

Black Jack will be their benchmark and Signorini acknowledges that sailing upwind or in light conditions are not ideal for their beamy powerful 88ft speedster, whereas they are for their rival. “It should be a nice race. There will be opportunities for everyone. At the moment the forecast looks like it is a bit more on their side because they are longer and narrower. We are working hard trying to set up the boat in the best way possible so we can give Black Jack a hard time. We’ll wait and see – there are many tricky bits on this course.”

It will also be the first offshore race for the Balcaen family’s former Maxi 72 Balthasar. Since acquiring her, the Balcaens have made the former Alegre/Caol Ila R/Notorious more offshore-orientated, adding one tonne of water ballast, changed to hydraulic winches, plugging the numerous holes in her deck and removing some of her specialist inshore racing kit. While Balthasar competed in the inshores at Loro Piana Giraglia, tactician Bouwe Bekking admits they weren’t firing on all cylinders. Palermo-Montecarlo, in which son Louis Balcaen will skipper Balthasar, will not only be their first offshore but their first time racing at full steam.

As to Tuesday’s race Bekking predicts: “There is 10-14 knots at the start which is more than we’ve ever had before [at the start of this race], at least in the races I’ve done! It looks like there is nice breeze in the gap, but it is the Mediterranean – anything can happen. We had huge thunderstorms here yesterday.”

The other maxis are the 28.27m long 1994 vintage ketch Orsa Maggiore, campaigned by Italy’s Marina Militare under skipper Guiseppe Parrini and the VO65 Sisi.

The first warning signal off the CVS clubhouse in Palermo’s Mondello district will be at 11:55 local time.

The 19 th  Palermo-Montecarlo start can be followed on the  yb tracker .

by James Boyd/International Maxi Association

More information on the Palermo-Montecarlo  here

For more on the International Maxi Association visit  www.internationalmaxiassociation.com  or see the  2024 IMA Yearbook

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Yacht Club de Monaco: more than a yacht club

Home Environment Yacht Club de Monaco: more than a yacht club

Established by Prince Rainier III in 1953, the Yacht Club de Monaco is the emblem of Monegasque yachting. Since 2014, it has had its own emblematic building, a striking piece of architecture by Britain’s Norman Foster.

With its sleek lines and architecture reminiscent of an ocean liner, the Yacht Club de Monaco’s headquarters building never fails to provoke a reaction. Officially unveiled in 2014, it was designed by Pritzker Prize winner Norman Foster.

“This building has been designed like a miniature city, integrated into the existing urban landscape of Monaco,” explains the architect, who was also behind the Millennium Bridge (2000), Millau Viaduct (2004), Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona (2007) and Vieux Port in Marseille (2013).

Chaired since 1984 by Prince Albert II , the Yacht Club de Monaco, with its 2,000 members representing 60 nationalities and prestigious yachts , illustrates Monaco’s historic role in the world of yachting .

The first regattas organised in the Principality date back to 1862, while the first international motorboat races – which arrived with the development of the first combustion engines – were contested in Port Hercule in 1904.

Today, the Yacht Club de Monaco organises a number of regattas, such as Monaco Classic Week, the Primo Cup and, more recently, the Monaco Solar and Energy Boat Challenge One.

“As part of our ‘Monaco, capital of yachting’ project, through this event the Principality helps to bring together manufacturers, engineers, shipyards, students and ship owners to share their experiences and respond to the energy and environmental challenges facing the nautical sector,” says Bernard d’Alessandri, Secretary General of the Yacht Club de Monaco.

The YCM has two influential ambassadors: Le Tuiga, considered by sailor Eric Tabarly to be “one of the most beautiful yachts in the world”, takes part in major classic yacht events, while the Seaexplorer (formerly Malizia II) , the eco-friendly vessel that took Greta Thunberg across the Atlantic in summer 2019 to attend the UN Climate Summit, finished fifth in the Vendée Globe 2020, the first time it has taken part in the race.