Regata Oceánica Palos – La Gomera
Palos de la Frontera (Huelva) · SpainAlso known as Regata Huelva–La Gomera, Regata Oceánica Huelva–La Gomera
2025 · Overall · ORC
- 2Mar Amigo Sail RacingBasilio Marquínez
- 1MakiatoManuel Murube Fernández
- 3Adrián Hoteles MacaronesDaniel Adrián Ruera
- Type
- Offshore · 750 nm
- Scoring
- ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- August, September · biennial, odd years
- Next
- Aug 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Real Club Marítimo y Tenis de Punta Umbría with Diputación de Huelva and Cabildo de La Gomera
- Waters
- Atlantic
- First held
- 1985 · 41 years ago
The course
Point to point · 758 nm · as sailed in 2025
- SStart line off Punta UmbríaStart
- 1Mark 1, 0.1 nm S of El Rompido landfall buoyMark · leave to port
- 2Punta Umbría mark (= start mark)Mark · leave to starboard
- FSan Sebastián de La Gomera (finish line off San Cristóbal lighthouse)Finish
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.
Race is biennial; 2025 sailing instructions (approx. 758 nm).
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 202530 Aug 2025 – 6 Sep 2025 | MakiatoOverall · ORCManuel Murube Fernández | Desafío 53368:01:08 | 7 | NW 7.3 kn, gusts 23.7waves up to 0.58 m | 55 | Official |
| 2024No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2023Held | ASTARTEOverallLeandro Parial López de Ayala | Not published | — | — | — | Official |
| 2022No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021Not confirmed | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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: regata-oceanica-palos-lagomera.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
- LHDesafío 533 · Pepín Barrero Hidalgo · AUTel. 68:01:08
- 1.Makiato · Manuel Murube Fernández · ESPel. 110:01:06
- 2.Mar Amigo Sail Racing · Basilio Marquínez · ESPel. 82:32:56
- 3.Adrián Hoteles Macarones · Daniel Adrián Ruera · ESPel. 95:21:15
2023 · 1 results
FinalSource: regata-oceanica-palos-lagomera.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 8.8/307.3 kn mean
- Gusts 7.9/1523.7 kn
- Sea 3/200.6 m waves
- Distance 25/25750 nm
- Duration 10/108 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 Palos de la Frontera (Huelva) (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 (55).
Weather calendar · Palos de la Frontera (Huelva)
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 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.8 | 6.2 | 6.2 | 5.9 | 5.7 | 5.8 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
| From | N | N | W | SW | W | SW | W | W | W | SW | N | NE |
Typical wind at Palos de la Frontera (Huelva)
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in Aug, 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
- Regata Oceánica Palos – La Gomera
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Palos de la Frontera (Huelva), Spain
- First held
- 1985
- Editions on record
- 2 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 7 boats (7 in the latest edition)
- Nations in the results
- 2
- Course
- 750 nautical miles
- Course record
- 2d 20:01:08, Desafío 533 (VOR70) (José Carlos Sousa), 2025
- Latest overall winner
- Makiato (2025)
- Organiser
- Real Club Marítimo y Tenis de Punta Umbría with Diputación de Huelva and Cabildo de La Gomera
- Next edition
- usually Aug 2027
- Official site
- https://regata-oceanica-palos-lagomera.com/
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- regata-oceanica-palos-lagomera.com — Official site: XXXI edition 30 Aug – 6 Sep 2025, winner >760 miles
- lagomera.travel — La Gomera tourism: biennial, ~750 nm, established 1985