2025 · Overall
- 2Francesco ColottoITA
- 1Jesper KarlsenITA
- 3Hugues WillotFRA
- Type
- Inshore
- Scoring
- One-design
- Boats
- Dinghies
- Usually
- February
- Next
- Feb 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Club Nàutic Costa Brava – Vela Palamós
- Waters
- Balearic
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in February
Race days 2026
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202612 Feb 2026 – 15 Feb 2026 | Not published | — | 360 | W 8.2 kn, gusts 48.6waves up to 2.8 m | 44 | — |
| 202513 Feb 2025 – 16 Feb 2025 | Jesper KarlsenOverall | Not published | 528 | NW 5.5 kn, gusts 24.5waves up to 1.52 m | 27 | Official |
| 202415 Feb 2024 – 18 Feb 2024 | Iker MúgicaOverall | Not published | 550 | NW 9.3 kn, gusts 37.7waves up to 1.5 m | 36 | Official |
| 202316 Feb 2023 – 19 Feb 2023 | Hugo RodríguezOverall | Not published | 550 | SW 3.7 kn, gusts 15.7waves up to 0.48 m | 17 | Official |
| 202217 Feb 2022 – 20 Feb 2022 | Daniel García de la CasaOverall | Not published | 532 | W 7 kn, gusts 33.4waves up to 2.04 m | 35 | Official |
| 2021Cancelled | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 · 4 results
FinalSource: yachtsandyachting.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Jesper Karlsen · ITA
- 2.Francesco Colotto · ITA
- 3.Hugues Willot · FRA
- 1.Clara Zunquin · FRA
2024 · 9 results
FinalSource: yachtsandyachting.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Iker Múgica · ESP
- 2.Joan Domingo · ESP
- 3.Pepe García Gandrille · ESP
- 1.Olha Lubianska · UKR
- 2.Amalia Coll
- 3.Adele Ramm · SWE
- 1.Barnabas Gereben · HUN
- 2.Roman Vyevyenko · UKR
- 3.Pablo López · ESP
2023 · 4 results
FinalSource: ultimahora.esAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Hugo Rodríguez · ESP
- 2.Joan Domingo · ESP
- 3.Bartosz Zmudzinski · POL
- 1.Blanca Ferrando · ESP
2022 · 6 results
FinalSource: nautica.newsAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Daniel García de la Casa · ESP
- 2.Tim Lubat · ESP
- 3.Lorenzo Ghirotti · ITA
- 1.Victoria Demurtas · ITA
- 2.Sarah Jannin · FRA
- 3.Blanca Ferrando · ESP
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 8/306.7 kn mean
- Gusts 10.7/1532 kn
- Sea 8.5/201.7 m waves
- Distance 0/25not published
- Duration 5/104 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 Palamós (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: 2026 (44).
Weather calendar · Palamós
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 | 7.3 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 6.9 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 6.7 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.6 | 7.6 | 5.8 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
| From | NW | W | NW | N | SW | S | SE | SE | NE | NW | NW | NW |
Typical wind at Palamós
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Feb.
Fact sheet
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- Race
- Palamós International Optimist Trophy
- Kind
- inshore sailing race from Palamós, Spain
- Editions on record
- 5 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 532 boats (360 in the latest edition)
- Nations in the results
- 7
- Latest overall winner
- Jesper Karlsen (2025)
- Organiser
- Club Nàutic Costa Brava – Vela Palamós
- Next edition
- usually Feb 2027
- Official site
- https://www.palamosoptimisttrophy.org/
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- yachtsandyachting.com — 35th edition entries
- forbes.es — news tag
- palamosoptimisttrophy.org — official event site; 37th edition (2027), organiser CN Costa Brava Vela Palamós with RFEV, vela.cat, AECIO
- nautica.news — 32nd edition held 17-20 Feb 2022