Cyprus – Israel Regatta
Ayia Napa · Cyprus → IsraelAlso known as Energean Karish Cup (2023)
- Type
- Offshore
- Scoring
- ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- October
- Next
- Oct 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Israel Yacht Club (IYC / IOSF) with a Cypriot partner club and marinas
- Waters
- Levantine
- First held
- 2011 · 15 years ago
The course
Point to point · as sailed in 2022
- SStart off Ayia Napa MarinaStart
- 1Mark 1, orange inflatable ~0.5 nm from the startMark · leave to port · position not published
- FHerzliya finishing gateFinish
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.
2022 sailing instructions (the 2026 SI document is no longer online). Mark 1 is left to starboard if a green flag is shown. Intermediate finishing gates (gates 1–3) count as alternative finishes, with more southern gates scored higher; their printed coordinates are garbled and are omitted.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 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.
Race metrics
Weather calendar · Ayia Napa
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 | 6.2 | 6.9 | 6.0 | 5.9 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 6.0 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| From | NW | NW | W | W | S | SW | SW | SW | SW | NW | N | N |
Typical wind at Ayia Napa
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Oct.
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
- Cyprus – Israel Regatta
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Ayia Napa, Cyprus
- First held
- 2011
- Editions on record
- 0 since 2021
- Organiser
- Israel Yacht Club (IYC / IOSF) with a Cypriot partner club and marinas
- Next edition
- usually Oct 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- docs.google.com — sailing instructions: Ayia Napa Marina → Herzliya leg, warning signal 09:25 Fri 2 Oct 2026 (document partly still says 2025)
- limassolmarina.com — 9th edition 2019 by IYC, Limassol Marina and Tel Aviv Marina; series dates to 2011 (page now 404)
- eurofast.eu — 2017 edition sponsor note, finished Tel Aviv
- docs.google.com — Israel Yacht Club sailing instructions, Cyprus–Israel Regatta 2022 (v1.02, 23 Jul 2022): rules include ORC Club, ORC Rules 2022; no class flags, no named divisions. The 2026 SI listed in races.json (doc 1O2T1Y…) now returns HTTP 410.
- limassolmarina.com — Limassol Marina event page: regatta dates back to 2011
- iyc.co.il — Israel Yacht Club site: no event page for the regatta (forum posts only)