International Ionian Sailing Week
Patras / varies · GreeceAlso known as Διεθνής Ιστιοπλοϊκή Εβδομάδα Ιονίου
2026 · ORC Club
- 1Glafki IIKostas Priftis
- Type
- Coastal · 104 nm
- Scoring
- ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts · Cruiser-friendly
- Usually
- July, August
- Next
- Jul 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Unknown (Hellenic clubs; organiser to confirm)
- Waters
- Ionian
- First held
- —
The course
Course changes each year · 104 nm · the 2027 course, announced
- SVasiliki, LefkadaStart
- 1Astakos (stage port)Mark
- 2Vathi, Ithaca (stage port)Mark
- 3Skrofa (stage port)Mark
- FPatrasFinish
Organiser's course Straight lines between the marks, not the track boats sail. For planning and interest; the sailing instructions decide.
Provisional 2027 programme: port-to-port stages (approx. 104 nm in total) plus a final race at Patras; positions are the published berth positions; no marks named; ports change yearly.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Held | Glafki IIORC ClubKostas Priftis | Not published | 49 | — | — | Official |
| 20254 Aug 2025 – 10 Aug 2025 | BidourikOverallPhilip Corbett | Not published | 43 | E 6.7 kn, gusts 34waves up to 0.4 m | 49 | Official |
| 20243 Aug 2024 – 11 Aug 2024 | TolmiClubGiannis Sarantopoulos | Not published | 45 | W 4.3 kn, gusts 23.7waves up to 0.2 m | 42 | Official |
| 202330 Jul 2023 – 6 Aug 2023 | Not published | — | — | W 5.8 kn, gusts 32.7waves up to 0.62 m | 49 | — |
| 202230 Jul 2022 – 5 Aug 2022 | IsidorosORC ClubEvangelos Lianos | Not published | 28 | E 5.3 kn, gusts 25.7waves up to 0.32 m | 44 | Official |
| 20215 Aug 2021 – 6 Aug 2021 | COCOBILL IIOverall · ORC | Not published | — | SW 7.2 kn, gusts 36.3 | 40 | Official |
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.
Won it most
Boats that won here (overall, line honours or a class) in two years or more.
Podiums and class winners
2026 · 2 results
FinalSource: rallyioniou.grAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Allegoria (Sea Pioneer) · Ioannis Argyrakis
2025 · 4 results
FinalSource: rallyioniou.grAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2024 · 6 results
ProvisionalSource: rallyioniou.grAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Tolmi · Giannis Sarantopoulos · GREprovisional
- 2.Isidoros · Evangelos Lianos · GREprovisional
- 3.Bana Bioletta 5 · Giorgos Sykaris · GREprovisional
- 1.Allegoria · Giannis Argyrakis · GREprovisional
- 2.Glafki II · Kostas Priftis · GREprovisional
- 3.Okyroi II · Panagiotis Damianis · GREprovisional
2022 · 6 results
ProvisionalSource: rallyioniou.grAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Isidoros · Evangelos Lianos · GREprovisional
- 2.Hara · Spyros Tzitzis · GREprovisional
- 3.Ligo-Ligo · Konstantinos Mpourlogiannis · GREprovisional
- 1.Allegoria · Ioannis Argyrakis · GREprovisional
- 2.Helios · Nikos Vlachos · GREprovisional
- 3.To Kefi Mas · Theodoros Giovanoglou · GREprovisional
2021 · 11 results
FinalSource: eio.grAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.COCOBILL II
- 2.ΣΚΙΡΩΝ
- 3.SOFI
- 1.COCOBILL II
- 2.ΣΚΙΡΩΝ
- 3.SOFI
- 1.EX-ANIMO
- 2.ΕΛΕΝΑ
- 3.ΜΑΡΑΜΠΟΥ
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 7.1/305.9 kn mean
- Gusts 10.2/1530.5 kn
- Sea 2/200.4 m waves
- Distance 17.8/25104 nm
- Duration 10/107 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 Patras / varies (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 (49).
Weather calendar · Patras / varies
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 | 6.7 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 4.7 | 5.5 | 5.3 | 5.8 | 6.4 | 6.9 | 5.8 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 |
| From | SE | E | SE | S | S | W | SE | SW | SE | E | SE | E |
Typical wind at Patras / varies
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
- International Ionian Sailing Week
- Kind
- coastal sailing race from Patras / varies, Greece
- Editions on record
- 6 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 44 boats (49 in the latest edition)
- Nations in the results
- 1
- Course
- 104 nautical miles
- Latest overall winner
- Bidourik (2025)
- Organiser
- Unknown (Hellenic clubs; organiser to confirm)
- Next edition
- usually Jul 2027
- Official site
- https://rallyioniou.gr/
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- enimerosi.com — Corfu news, 34th edition 2024
- discovergreece.com — 2023 edition listing
- rallyioniou.gr — Official site: 37th edition 4–10 Aug 2027, 5 races ~104 nm; organisers alternate Patras/Corfu
- rallyioniou.gr — Official news 10 Aug 2026: 36th edition concluded, organised by I.O. Kerkyras, 49 boats, 23 clubs
- rallyioniou.gr — Official news 12 Aug 2025: 35th edition closing, 4 races, organisers