Med Max
Port Camargue (Le Grau-du-Roi) · France → MoroccoAlso known as Med Max I Occitanie – Saïdia Resorts
2024 · Class40
- 2TyrolitMatteo Sericano / Lucas Rosetti
- 1Amarris
- 3CentrakorMikael Mergui / Corentin Douguet
- Type
- Offshore · 1000 nm
- Scoring
- Not known yet
- Boats
- Multihulls
- Usually
- September · irregular years
- Next
- Sep 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Kito de Pavant (event founder)
- Waters
- Ligurian
- First held
- 2024 · 2 years ago
The course
Point to point · 1000 nm · as sailed in 2024
- SBaie d'Aigues-Mortes, off Port CamargueStart
- 1Buoy off the Theatre de la Mer, SeteMark
- 2Bonifacio (Strait of Bonifacio)Mark
- 3IbizaMark
- 4Chafarinas (Zaffarine) IslandsMark
- FSaidia marina, MoroccoFinish
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.
Press description of the 2024 (first, quadrennial) edition; Class40 course. Ocean Fifty sailed a ~1,500 nm course that also rounded Stromboli. Sides not stated.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202429 Sep 2024 | AmarrisClass40 | Not published | 27 | NE 5.1 kn, gusts 17.7waves up to 0.92 m | 42 | Official |
| 2023No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 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
2024 · 6 results
FinalSources: courseaularge.com, objectifsud.frAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 6.1/305.1 kn mean
- Gusts 5.9/1517.7 kn
- Sea 4.5/200.9 m waves
- Distance 25/251000 nm
- Duration 0/10end dates unknown
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 Port Camargue (Le Grau-du-Roi) (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: 2024 (42).
Weather calendar · Port Camargue (Le Grau-du-Roi)
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 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.8 | 8.9 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.6 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 4 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 3 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| From | N | N | NE | NW | W | SW | W | W | NW | NE | N | N |
Typical wind at Port Camargue (Le Grau-du-Roi)
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Sep.
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
- Med Max
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Port Camargue (Le Grau-du-Roi), France
- First held
- 2024
- Editions on record
- 1 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 27 boats (27 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 1000 nautical miles
- Organiser
- Kito de Pavant (event founder)
- Next edition
- usually Sep 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- figaronautisme.meteoconsult.fr — announcement: quadrennial, route, 1,000/1,500 nm
- fr.hespress.com — Moroccan coverage
- figaronautisme.meteoconsult.fr — 2024 entry list
- objectifgard.com — 2024 start preview