Cor Caroli Regatta
Varna · BulgariaAlso known as Kor Caroli, Кор Кароли, Cor Carolli, International Regatta Cor Caroli
2025 · Line honours
- 1Aboat TimePetar Dimitrov
- Type
- Coastal · 100 nm
- Scoring
- IRC · ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- August
- Next
- Aug 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Cor Caroli Foundation with Yacht Club Capt. Georgi Georgiev – Port Varna and Varna Municipality
- Waters
- Black Sea
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in August
Race days 2025
Wind and waves at the venue: monthly climate 2021–2025 and the last edition's race days (ERA5 and marine reanalysis, Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0).
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202514 Aug 2025 – 18 Aug 2025 | Not published | Aboat Time | 34 | E 6.8 kn, gusts 30.5waves up to 1.28 m | 49 | Official |
| 202415 Aug 2024 – 18 Aug 2024 | Not published | Chocolate | 27 | E 5.1 kn, gusts 20.6waves up to 1.04 m | 41 | Official |
| 202311 Aug 2023 | Not published | — | 45 | NE 7.2 kn, gusts 26waves up to 0.84 m | 39 | — |
| 202211 Aug 2022 – 15 Aug 2022 | Not published | — | — | N 5.4 kn, gusts 23.7waves up to 1 m | 44 | — |
| 202112 Aug 2021 – 15 Aug 2021 | Not published | — | 34 | NE 5.1 kn, gusts 24.3 | 37 | — |
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
2025 · 1 results
FinalSource: bgports.bgAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2024 · 7 results
FinalSource: bgports.bgAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Kiara X · Georgi Boev
- 1.Pareya · Yavor Kolev
- 1.Proxima · Svilen Doykov
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 7.1/305.9 kn mean
- Gusts 8.3/1525 kn
- Sea 5/201 m waves
- Distance 17.6/25100 nm
- Duration 5.8/104.5 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 Varna (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: 2025 (49).
Weather calendar · Varna
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 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 5.9 | 5.4 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.3 | 5.7 | 6.1 | 6.6 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| From | W | NW | NW | NW | NE | NE | E | NE | NE | NW | NW | NW |
Typical wind at Varna
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in 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
- Cor Caroli Regatta
- Kind
- coastal sailing race from Varna, Bulgaria
- Editions on record
- 5 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 34 boats (34 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 100 nautical miles
- Organiser
- Cor Caroli Foundation with Yacht Club Capt. Georgi Georgiev – Port Varna and Varna Municipality
- Next edition
- usually Aug 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- bgports.bg — BPI Co. (sponsor): 25th edition 14–18 Aug 2025, Varna to Burgas, ~100 nm over four days, 34 crews
- bgports.bg — 24th edition 2024, 27 yachts, class winners
- bta.bg — 23rd edition 2023
- bulsaf.bg — BULSAF official calendar: Cor Caroli Regatta 12–16 Aug 2026, ORC/IRC/Konrad 25R