Carthago Dilecta Est – Tunisia Sailing Week
Ventotene · Italy → TunisiaAlso known as Carthago Dilecta Est, Tunisie Sailing Week, Ventotene–Hammamet, Yasmine Cup
2026 · Overall
- 1Corsaro IIBartolomeo Mazza
- Type
- Offshore
- Scoring
- Not known yet
- Boats
- Not yet listed
- Usually
- July, August
- Next
- Jul 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Circolo Velico Ventotene
- Waters
- Central Med
- First held
- 1999 · 27 years ago
The course
Point to point · as sailed in 2026
- SVentoteneStart
- FYasmine Hammamet, TunisiaFinish
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.
Main offshore race (Ventotene-Hammamet, 2-5 Aug 2026); preceded by Roma/Fiumicino-Ventotene and followed by Hammamet-Gammarth/Sidi Bou Said and -Bizerte legs. No marks or distance published.
Six seasons
Fastest on record: Adams, 2d 7h 30m in 2023| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20262 Aug 2026 – 8 Aug 2026 | Corsaro IIOverallBartolomeo Mazza | Not published | — | W 6.1 kn, gusts 17.1waves up to 0.74 m | 27 | Official |
| 2025Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202431 Jul 2024 – 12 Aug 2024 | Not published | — | — | W 6.9 kn, gusts 20.8waves up to 0.8 m | 29 | — |
| 202331 Jul 2023 – 12 Aug 2023 | Not published | Adams55h30m23s | — | W 9.4 kn, gusts 33waves up to 2.36 m | 44 | Official |
| 2022Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
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
2026 · 2 results
FinalSource: carthagodilectaest.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 9/307.5 kn mean
- Gusts 7.9/1523.6 kn
- Sea 6.5/201.3 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- Duration 10/1013 days
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 Ventotene (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: 2023 (44).
Weather calendar · Ventotene
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 | 12.8 | 10.4 | 10.4 | 9.3 | 8.1 | 6.9 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.9 | 9.4 | 12.0 | 10.5 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 45 | 23 | 23 | 24 | 10 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 36 | 31 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| From | NW | N | E | NW | W | W | W | W | NW | E | SE | NE |
Typical wind at Ventotene
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
- Carthago Dilecta Est – Tunisia Sailing Week
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Ventotene, Italy
- First held
- 1999
- Editions on record
- 6 since 2021
- Latest overall winner
- Corsaro II (2026)
- Organiser
- Circolo Velico Ventotene
- Next edition
- usually Jul 2027
- Official site
- https://carthagodilectaest.com/
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- kapitalis.com — previously recorded
- 9colonne.it — previously recorded
- carthagodilectaest.com — Official site (Circolo Velico Ventotene): 28th edition 2026, first held 1999
- carthagodilectaest.com — 2026 NoR: Roma/Fiumicino–Ventotene 31 Jul–1 Aug, Ventotene–Hammamet 2–5 Aug, Yasmine Cup 6–7 Aug, Hammamet–Gammarth 8–9 Aug, Gammarth–Bizerte 11–13 Aug 2026