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The stage is set for one of the most exciting regattas in the yachting calendar. Power and sail will take to the water to celebrate 60 years of the Yacht Club de Monaco STORY SAM HAMILTON

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onaco might be the second smallest country in the world but it punches far above its weight in terms of glamour, sport and sailing.

The famous casino was visited by James Bond in the film Casino Royale. The F1 race through the city streets of its Monte Carlo district is world-famous; and its bay is a place where the biggest gin palaces in the world gather.

This year, the Yacht Club de Monaco celebrates the diamond anniversary of its founding in 1953. But yachting has been in the blood of this tiny nation since its existence.

The first regattas were held in the bay in 1862 – just a year after Monaco became a sovereign state. Prince Albert I, the first head of state, founded the Société des Régates in 1888 and the Bay of Monaco quickly became one of the world’s yachting centres, particularly in motorboat racing when the internal combustion engine appeared on the water early in the 20th century; the world’s first international motor CLASSIC BOAT OCTOBER 2013

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boat races were held here in 1904. When the Yacht Club de Monaco was founded by Prince Rainier II, Monégasque head of state, in 1953, it was with the mission to “develop, encourage and serve the promotion of the Principality in the yachting sector”, and that remains its ethos now.

The current president (of club and nation) took over in 1984 – Prince Albert II. Under him, the club started its classic focus, with the first biennial Classic Week in 1994.

The club is now looking to the future as well as the past, with its brand-new clubhouse in Port Hercule nearing the end of its build and scheduled for opening in 2014. The design, redolent of the transatlantic liners of the first half of the 20th century, is by Lord Norman Foster and Monégasque architect Alexandre Grimaldi.

The streets of Monaco are famously filled with supercars, the glamorous, the rich and the beautiful.

That will surely change this 11-15 September when the

Main image: Tuiga, club flagship and CB fave. Above left: Prince Albert II arrives at last year’s event; the International 12-Foot class.

Above: artist’s impressions of the new clubhouse; YCM president Prince Albert II at Tuiga’s helm

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Classic Boat team rolls into town, but the bay will be lit up with sails as it has been since the 1860s. Some 66 classic yachts (12 of them Big Class), 40 classic runabouts (YC de M honours its motorboating history) and 10 classic motor-yachts will take to the water: among them will be, of course, the Fife III 15-M cutter Tuiga. She’s the club’s flagship – and our nominee for greatest all-time classic (CB300). She will race the other three Fife III 15-Ms still sailing, now competing together as a quartet at regattas: Mariska, Hispania and The Lady Anne.

The French three-master Belem, at 157ft (47.8m), will contrast a fleet of 43 clinker-built International 12-Foot dinghies, celebrating 100 years of their design by George Cockshott and skimming across the bay like dragonflies.

Come and say hello to CB. We will have a table at the regatta village by the harbourmaster’s office.

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