Round Aeolian Race
Capo d'Orlando · ItalyAlso known as RAR
2025 · Overall · IRC
- 2Loli Fast
- 1South Kensington
- 3Lancillotto
- Type
- Offshore · 140 nm
- Scoring
- IRC · ORC
- Boats
- Rated yachts · Cruiser-friendly
- Usually
- September
- Next
- Sep 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Capo d'Orlando
- Waters
- Tyrrhenian
- First held
- —
Where and when
Race dates
Usually in September
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).
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202625 Sep 2026 – 27 Sep 2026 | Not published | — | — | N 3.6 kn, gusts 18.9waves up to 0.7 m | 36 | — |
| 202526 Sep 2025 – 28 Sep 2025 | South KensingtonOverall · IRC | QQ720h05m19s | — | SW 4.5 kn, gusts 22.5waves up to 0.82 m | 39 | Official |
| 202427 Sep 2024 – 28 Sep 2024 | Guardamago 3 TickettandoOverall | Sagola Spartivento | — | S 4.2 kn, gusts 24.9waves up to 0.72 m | 38 | Official |
| 202329 Sep 2023 | DenebOverall | Kuka 3 | 47 | W 3.7 kn, gusts 19.8waves up to 0.48 m | 32 | Official |
| 202229 Sep 2022 – 30 Sep 2022 | Not published | Lisa R21h18m30s | — | S 5.8 kn, gusts 26.6waves up to 1.6 m | 44 | Official |
| 2021Held | Not published | — | — | — | — | — |
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 · 13 results
FinalSource: saily.itAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
2024 · 2 results
FinalSource: giornaledellavela.comAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 5.3/304.4 kn mean
- Gusts 7.5/1522.5 kn
- Sea 4.5/200.9 m waves
- Distance 18.9/25140 nm
- Duration 2.5/102.5 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 Capo d'Orlando (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 (44).
Weather calendar · Capo d'Orlando
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 | 5.9 | 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 5.8 | 5.5 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 |
| From | SW | S | SW | SW | W | NW | NW | NW | W | SW | SW | SW |
Typical wind at Capo d'Orlando
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
- Round Aeolian Race
- Kind
- offshore sailing race from Capo d'Orlando, Italy
- Editions on record
- 6 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 47 boats (47 in the latest edition)
- Course
- 140 nautical miles
- Latest overall winner
- South Kensington (2025)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Capo d'Orlando
- Next edition
- usually Sep 2027
- Official site
- https://roundaeolianrace.it
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- visitsicily.info — previously recorded
- giornaledellavela.com — previously recorded
- lasicilia.it — La Sicilia, 2020: course 'ridotto da 140 a 90 miglia' because of bad weather; clockwise or anticlockwise as competitors choose