Atlantis Cup – Regata da Autonomia
Ponta Delgada (São Miguel, Azores) · PortugalAlso known as Atlantis Cup, Regata da Autonomia
2024 · ORC
- 1Allegro VivaceBruno Rosa
- Type
- Offshore · 90 nm
- Scoring
- ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts · Cruiser-friendly
- Usually
- July, August
- Next
- Jul 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Clube Naval da Horta with other Azorean clubs
- Waters
- Atlantic
- First held
- —
The course
Point to point · as sailed in 2024
- SSao Miguel (Ponta Delgada)Start
- FTerceiraFinish
Organiser's course Straight lines between the marks, not the track boats sail. Named marks sit at the named island or cape, not on the exact rounding line. For planning and interest; the sailing instructions decide.
Regata da Autonomia is the first leg of the Atlantis Cup (Sao Miguel - Terceira - Sao Jorge - Faial). Finish port on Terceira not stated; position is Angra do Heroismo. No marks or distance published.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202429 Jul 2024 | Allegro VivaceORCBruno Rosa | Not published | 24 | NW 3.7 kn, gusts 16.7waves up to 1.12 m | 33 | Official |
| 2023Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Line honours go to the first boat home, on elapsed time. Overall winner is the best on handicap (IRC or ORC corrected time), so they are often different boats. Wind is the daily mean at the start venue over the racing days; gusts and waves are the highest of those days. Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5) and marine APIs, CC BY 4.0; venue point only, not the full course.
Podiums and class winners
2024 · 1 results
FinalSource: acores.rtp.ptAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 4.4/303.7 kn mean
- Gusts 5.6/1516.7 kn
- Sea 5.5/201.1 m waves
- Distance 17.2/2590 nm
- Duration 0/10end dates unknown
How the score works
Our own index, not an official rating. Five inputs, each scaled to its share of 100: mean wind (up to 25 kn → 30 points), strongest gust (45 kn → 15), highest waves (4 m → 20), course length on a log scale (700 nm → 25) and days of racing (7 days → 10). Wind and waves are ERA5 reanalysis at Ponta Delgada (São Miguel, Azores) (Open-Meteo) on the race days, so an offshore course can see more than the venue does. A missing input counts as zero and is marked. Roughest edition we hold: 2024 (33).
Weather calendar · Ponta Delgada (São Miguel, Azores)
Month by month at the venue, 2021–2026 (ERA5 and marine reanalysis). Race months in orange.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean windkn | 10.3 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 9.7 | 7.0 | 6.3 | 6.1 | 5.2 | 6.5 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 8.8 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 15 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 2.9 | 2.8 | 3.3 | 2.5 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.6 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.9 |
| From | S | SW | W | W | W | N | N | N | NW | W | SW | SW |
Typical wind at Ponta Delgada (São Miguel, Azores)
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Jul, Aug.
Fact sheet
For press, partners and sponsors: the race in a dozen lines, from published sources. Copy it whole; please keep the source line.
- Race
- Atlantis Cup – Regata da Autonomia
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Ponta Delgada (São Miguel, Azores), Portugal
- Editions on record
- 3 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 24 boats (24 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 90 nautical miles
- Organiser
- Clube Naval da Horta with other Azorean clubs
- Next edition
- usually Jul 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- novidadesnewsletter.news — 2026 start from Ponta Delgada, ~40 yachts
- acores.rtp.pt — 35th edition 2024, start Mon 29 Jul, organiser CN Horta
- dnoticias.pt — 2020 cancelled
- rtp.pt — RTP daily summaries 28 Jul-3 Aug 2025
- rtp.pt — RTP daily summaries 28 Jul-2 Aug 2026