Regata Intercontinental Marbella–Ceuta
Marbella · Spain
2024 · Overall · ORC
- 2Boat MálagaDani Cuevas
- 1BenahavísVicente Ortiz
- 3Ceuta EmocionaSergio Llorca
- Type
- Offshore · 40 nm
- Scoring
- ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- April, May
- Next
- Apr 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Real Club Marítimo de Marbella with Ceuta clubs
- Waters
- Alboran
- First held
- 2017 · 9 years ago
The course
Point to point · as sailed in 2023
- SCeutaStart
- FMarbellaFinish
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.
5th edition (2023) long race sailed Ceuta → Marbella after a ~10 nm coastal race in Ceuta Bay; press gives '23 miles approx.' for the long race (other years cite ~40 nm for a double Strait crossing), so distance left null. No intermediate marks named; direction varies by edition.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2025Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 20241 May 2024 | BenahavísOverall · ORCVicente Ortiz | Barco Suka | 25 | W 7.8 kn, gusts 22.4waves up to 0.86 m | 35 | Official |
| 202329 Apr 2023 – 1 May 2023 | CeutaOverall · ORCSergio Llorca | Not published | — | SW 4.1 kn, gusts 21waves up to 0.9 m | 34 | Official |
| 202229 Apr 2022 – 2 May 2022 | RayterOverallErnesto Vera | Not published | — | SW 4.5 kn, gusts 36.2waves up to 1.18 m | 43 | Official |
| 202129 Apr 2021 – 2 May 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
2024 · 10 results
FinalSource: elfarodeceuta.esAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2023 · 11 results
FinalSource: elfarodeceuta.esAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2022 · 1 results
FinalSource: elfarodeceuta.esAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- 1.Rayter · Ernesto Vera
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 6.6/305.5 kn mean
- Gusts 8.8/1526.5 kn
- Sea 5/201 m waves
- Distance 14.2/2540 nm
- 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 Marbella (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 (43).
Weather calendar · Marbella
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 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.9 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
| From | N | NE | NW | S | S | S | SE | SE | S | E | NW | N |
Typical wind at Marbella
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Apr, May.
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
- Regata Intercontinental Marbella–Ceuta
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Marbella, Spain
- First held
- 2017
- Editions on record
- 3 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 25 boats (25 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 40 nautical miles
- Latest overall winner
- Benahavís (2024)
- Organiser
- Real Club Marítimo de Marbella with Ceuta clubs
- Next edition
- usually Apr 2027
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- elfarodeceuta.es — VI edition 1 May 2024, 40 nm coastal Marbella-Ceuta
- elfarodeceuta.es — IV edition 29 Apr-2 May 2022, organisers
- elfarodeceuta.es — arrival report
- elfarodeceuta.es — V edition 2023, ~23 nm crossing
- elfarodeceuta.es — VII edition 2025, 1-3 May
- elfarodeceuta.es — 30 Apr 2026: VIII edition starts Friday (1 May)
- elfarodeceuta.es — 3 May 2026: final, three legs