La Lunga Bolina
Porto Santo Stefano · ItalyAlso known as Lunga Bolina
2026 · Overall · ORC
- 1Chestress
- Type
- Offshore · 127 nm
- Scoring
- IRC · ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- April
- Next
- Apr 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Circolo Canottieri Aniene with Yacht Club Santo Stefano
- Waters
- Tyrrhenian
- First held
- —
The course
Round course · 127.2 nm · as sailed in 2026
- SPorto Santo Stefano start line (Yacht Club Santo Stefano mast – buoy)Start
- 1Isola d'ElbaMark · leave to port
- 2Isola di MontecristoMark · leave to port
- 3Isola del GiglioMark · leave to port
- FFinish line off Hotel La Caletta, Porto Santo StefanoFinish
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.
Montecristo Zone 1 is a no-go area (SI 25).
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202624 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026 | ChestressOverall · ORC | Carbonita | 39 | NW 4.3 kn, gusts 18.5waves up to 0.44 m | 35 | Official |
| 202527 Apr 2025 | Orion-EuropsatOverall · IRCFabrizio Calvo | Arkas Sailing Team Blue Moon | 40 | E 3.6 kn, gusts 18.1waves up to 0.28 m | 30 | Official |
| 202426 Apr 2024 – 27 Apr 2024 | CarbonitaOverall · ORCManolis Kondylis | Carbonita | 38 | SE 6.4 kn, gusts 28waves up to 1.24 m | 43 | Official |
| 202323 Apr 2023 | Not published | — | — | S 6 kn, gusts 25.5waves up to 1.18 m | 40 | — |
| 202223 Apr 2022 | Tevere Remo MarevivoOverall · ORCGianrocco Catalano | Lisa R | 80 | SE 8.9 kn, gusts 42.2waves up to 1.64 m | 52 | Official |
| 202124 Apr 2021 – 25 Apr 2021 | ScheggiaOverall · ORCNono Merola | Durlindana III | — | SE 4.6 kn, gusts 24.7 | 34 | 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 · 3 results
FinalSource: lalungabolina.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2025 · 8 results
FinalSource: giornaledellavela.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2024 · 4 results
FinalSource: lalungabolina.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2022 · 4 results
FinalSource: lalungabolina.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2021 · 2 results
FinalSource: lalungabolina.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Scheggia · Nono Merola
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 6.7/305.6 kn mean
- Gusts 8.7/1526.2 kn
- Sea 5/201 m waves
- Distance 18.5/25127 nm
- 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 Porto Santo Stefano (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: 2022 (52).
Weather calendar · Porto Santo Stefano
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 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 6.2 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.7 | 6.0 | 5.6 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 0.9 |
| From | NE | E | E | E | E | S | W | W | E | E | E | NE |
Typical wind at Porto Santo Stefano
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Apr.
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
- La Lunga Bolina
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Porto Santo Stefano, Italy
- Editions on record
- 6 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 40 boats (39 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 127 nautical miles
- Latest overall winner
- Chestress (2026)
- Organiser
- Circolo Canottieri Aniene with Yacht Club Santo Stefano
- Next edition
- usually Apr 2027
- Official site
- https://www.lalungabolina.it/
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- yachtclubitaliano.it — previously recorded
- giornaledellavela.com — previously recorded
- lalungabolina.it — Official site (Circolo Canottieri Aniene with YC Santo Stefano): La Lunga Bolina & Coastal Race 2026, 24–26 Apr 2026
- lalungabolina.it — Day 1 report 24 Apr 2026: 16th edition, offshore started from Monte Argentario on a course of 'circa 127 miglia' through the Tuscan Archipelago; Campionato Italiano Offshore 2026 stage