2026 · Overall
- 2Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (Django team)ITA
- 1Royal Ocean Racing Club (Ino Veritas, Garm)GBR
- 3RORC Gold
- Type
- Mixed · 130 nm
- Scoring
- IRC
- Boats
- Rated yachts
- Usually
- May, June · irregular years
- Next
- May 2027 (usual month; dates not announced)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Costa Smeralda
- Waters
- Tyrrhenian
- First held
- 1978 · 48 years ago
The course
Course changes each year · 130 nm · as sailed in 2026
- SStart off the Li Nibani islets, Porto CervoStart
- 1Mortorio and Soffi islandsMark · leave to port
- 2Offshore waypoint to the south-eastMark · leave to starboard · position not published
- 3Range Rover waypoint (35+ nm offshore to the north-east)Mark · leave to port · position not published
- 4Isola dei MonaciMark
- FFinish off Porto CervoFinish
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.
Offshore race of the 2026 event (NoR: approx. 150 nm / 24 h), course set for conditions; press reports ~130 nm. Offshore waypoint positions not published.
Six seasons
| Year | Winner (handicap, corrected) | Line honours (first home, elapsed) | Boats | Wind and sea | Toughness | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202631 May 2026 – 7 Jun 2026 | Royal Ocean Racing Club (Ino Veritas, Garm)Overall | Not published | 20 | W 9.6 kn, gusts 43.2waves up to 0.98 m | 59 | Official |
| 2025No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2024No edition | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 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
2026 · 9 results
FinalSources: saily.it, data.orc.orgAs published by the organiser; we copy places, not scores.
Race metrics
Toughness
Compare all races- Wind 11.5/309.6 kn mean
- Gusts 14.4/1543.2 kn
- Sea 5/201 m waves
- Distance 18.6/25130 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 Porto Cervo (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 (59).
Weather calendar · Porto Cervo
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 | 10.4 | 8.5 | 9.4 | 9.3 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 9.1 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 7.7 | 9.1 | 8.6 |
| Windy days% ≥ 20 kn | 24 | 15 | 15 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 22 | 17 |
| Wavesm, daily max | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.8 |
| From | W | W | W | NW | NW | N | NW | NW | NW | SW | W | W |
Typical wind at Porto Cervo
Mean knots by month, 2021–2025. Race months in full colour.
Where the wind comes from
Share of days by direction in May, Jun.
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
- Range Rover Sardinia Cup
- Kind
- offshore and inshore sailing race from Porto Cervo, Italy
- First held
- 1978
- Editions on record
- 1 since 2021
- Typical fleet
- 20 boats (20 in the latest edition)
- Nations in the results
- 2
- Course
- 130 nautical miles
- Latest overall winner
- Royal Ocean Racing Club (Ino Veritas, Garm) (2026)
- Organiser
- Yacht Club Costa Smeralda
- Next edition
- usually May 2027
- Official site
- https://www.yccs.it
Results as published by the organiser Weather: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0 Dates as announced
Sources
- yccs.it — previously recorded
- rorc.org — RORC: Sardinia Cup 2026 (31 May–7 Jun) raced under IRC with the Admiral's Cup 2027 rating bands.
- data.orc.org — Results 2026: Sardinia Cup 1, Sardinia Cup 2 and Teams standings; entry list gives TCC ratings. Club-team event, two boats per team.
- yccs.it — YCCS 2026 event page; press: inaugural coastal race ~30 NM (SC1) / 22.5 NM (SC2), offshore race 'circa 130 miglia' (3–4 Jun 2026; NoR had ~150), then windward-leeward races