Gibraltar Regatta (Round the Rock)
Gibraltar · GibraltarAlso known as Beck's Gibraltar Regatta, Corona Gibraltar Regatta, Round the Rock
2025 · 595
- 2Alex KupaiAlex Kupai
- 1James Ragg
- Type
- Mixed
- Scoring
- ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts · Dinghies
- Classes
- ILCA
- Usually
- July
- Next
- Jul 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club
- Waters
- Alboran
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in July
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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202526 Jul 2025 – 27 Jul 2025 | James Ragg595 | Not published | 18 | E 6.6 kn, gusts 27.6waves up to 1.42 m | 26 | Official |
| 2024Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202329 Jul 2023 – 30 Jul 2023 | Not published | — | — | S 6.8 kn, gusts 23.9waves up to 0.48 m | 20 | — |
| 2022Held | Noticia IIUnnamed class 1 | Not published | — | — | — | Official |
| 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
2025 · 13 results
FinalSource: chronicle.giAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2022 · 2 results
FinalSource: chronicle.giAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Vikingo
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 8/306.7 kn mean
- Gusts 8.6/1525.8 kn
- Sea 4.5/200.9 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- Duration 1.7/102 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 Gibraltar (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 (26).
Weather calendar · Gibraltar
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 | 8.0 | 8.6 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 7.7 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 6.8 | 7.0 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| From | NW | NE | W | S | S | S | S | SE | SW | E | NW | NW |
Typical wind at Gibraltar
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Jul.
Fact sheet
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- Race
- Gibraltar Regatta (Round the Rock)
- Kind
- offshore and inshore sailing race from Gibraltar, Gibraltar
- Editions on record
- 4 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 18 boats (18 in the latest edition)
- Organiser
- Royal Gibraltar Yacht Club
- Next edition
- usually Jul 2027
- Official site
- https://www.rgyc.gi/
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- chronicle.gi — XXV edition 29-30 Jul 2023
- chronicle.gi — XXVII edition 2025: day-one courses 9.4/3.7 nm; Round the Rock not sailed 27 Jul
- gbc.gi — GBC 24 Jul 2026: XXVIII edition 25-26 Jul
- chronicle.gi — XXVII edition preview
- rgyc.gi — RGYC site (placeholder)