Knidos Cup (Datça)
Datça · TürkiyeAlso known as Knidos Kupası, Ustaların Yarışı Knidos Kupası
2025 · Overall
- 1Avolare
- Type
- Coastal
- Scoring
- IRC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- October
- Next
- Oct 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Datça Yat Spor Kulübü (with TAYK in 2023)
- Waters
- Aegean
- First held
- 2023 · 3 years ago
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in October
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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202517 Oct 2025 – 19 Oct 2025 | AvolareOverall | Not published | — | W 2.9 kn, gusts 17.9waves up to 0.38 m | 15 | Official |
| 2024Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023Held | OMANI-LARAK TASIMACILIKOverall | Not published | 11 | — | — | Official |
| 2022No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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: muglagazetesi.com.trAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Avolare
2023 · 9 results
FinalSource: tayk.org.trAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 3.5/302.9 kn mean
- Gusts 6/1517.9 kn
- Sea 2/200.4 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- Duration 3.3/103 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 Datça (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 (15).
Weather calendar · Datça
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 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 6.5 | 7.1 | 7.2 | 6.4 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 6.4 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.8 |
| From | W | NW | NW | W | W | NW | NW | W | NW | NW | W | W |
Typical wind at Datça
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
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- Race
- Knidos Cup (Datça)
- Kind
- coastal sailing race from Datça, Türkiye
- First held
- 2023
- Editions on record
- 3 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 11 boats (11 in the latest edition)
- Latest overall winner
- Avolare (2025)
- Organiser
- Datça Yat Spor Kulübü (with TAYK in 2023)
- Next edition
- usually Oct 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- tayk.org.tr — 2023 TAYK–Datça Yat Spor Kulübü 'Ustaların Yarışı' Knidos Kupası, overall results
- muglagazetesi.com.tr — 2025: third edition, 17–19 Oct, Datça–Knidos and back; overall Avolare