2024 · Overall
- 1Odyssée
- Type
- Coastal · 180 nm
- Scoring
- Not known yet
- Boats
- Classics
- Usually
- August
- Next
- Aug 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Not confirmed
- Waters
- Ligurian
- First held
- —
The course
Course changes each year · 130 nm · as sailed in 2025
- SAjaccio, Port Charles OrnanoStart
- 1Portigliolo (stage port)Mark
- 2Propriano (stage port)Mark
- 3Campomoro (stage port)Mark
- 4Saint-Cyprien (stage port)Mark
- FBonifacio, off the citadelFinish
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.
Classic-yacht rally in ~7 stages; route changes yearly (2024 ran Bonifacio-Saint-Florent ~180 nm). Stage ports listed as named in press; only the first (Ajaccio-Portigliolo) and the finish are confirmed in order.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202623 Aug 2026 – 31 Aug 2026 | Not published | — | — | NW 3 kn, gusts 29.2waves up to 0.92 m | 48 | — |
| 202522 Aug 2025 | Not published | — | 30 | S 3.8 kn, gusts 19.8waves up to 1.8 m | 40 | — |
| 202422 Aug 2024 – 28 Aug 2024 | OdysséeOverall | Not published | 12 | W 2.8 kn, gusts 17.1waves up to 1.34 m | 46 | Official |
| 202322 Aug 2023 – 30 Aug 2023 | Not published | — | — | W 3.9 kn, gusts 39.3waves up to 4.4 m | 68 | — |
| 202224 Aug 2022 – 31 Aug 2022 | Not published | — | — | W 3.1 kn, gusts 19.4waves up to 0.7 m | 44 | — |
| 202126 Aug 2021 – 29 Aug 2021 | Not published | — | — | SW 3.8 kn, gusts 21.2 | 36 | — |
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 · 2 results
FinalSource: figaronautisme.meteoconsult.frAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 4.1/303.4 kn mean
- Gusts 8.1/1524.3 kn
- Sea 9/201.8 m waves
- Distance 19.8/25180 nm
- Duration 10/108 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 Ajaccio (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 (68).
Weather calendar · Ajaccio
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 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.6 | 3.1 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 1.3 |
| From | E | E | SE | SW | W | W | W | W | W | E | E | E |
Typical wind at Ajaccio
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
- Corsica Classic
- Kind
- coastal sailing race from Ajaccio, France
- Editions on record
- 6 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 21 boats (30 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 180 nautical miles
- Latest overall winner
- Odyssée (2024)
- Organiser
- Not confirmed
- Next edition
- usually Aug 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- corsenetinfos.corsica — 17th edition 2026, 24-30 Aug, 180 nm, organiser
- thethinkingtraveller.com — 2026 listing
- corsenetinfos.corsica — 14th edition 22-30 Aug 2023, 130 nm
- corsenetinfos.corsica — 2023 start Ajaccio 23 Aug