La Belle Classe at Monaco Classic Week

by Event media on 8 Sep 2007 In 1994, the Yacht Club de Monaco began the bi-annual September event now known as Monaco Classic Week which takes place in Port Hercule and attracts spectacular and fascinating classic vessels from around the world.

The event brings together early motorised day boats, vintage motor yachts, and classic sailboats in the Bay of Monaco. In fact, the gathering is very similar to the original of this event which took place in 1904.

Having for many years promoted classic yachting, and the preservation of exceptional yachts - some almost a century old, the Yacht Club de Monaco decided to create in 2005 La Belle Classe, a Club that assembles owners of classic yachts and leading personalities of the Classic Yachting world.

Over the last two years this club has not stopped developing and today has over seventy members, including owners of period and classic yachts (sailing and motor) and key personalities from the yachting world.

Numerous personalities are expected, among them the American sailor Dennis Conner; the British long distance swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh; French explorer Jean-Louis Etienne; Spanish aristocrat Alvaro de Marichalar, and the Japanese artist Tsuji Hitonari, 1999 winner of the Fémina foreigner's prize for Le Bouddha blanc, who has been invited to the Principality by the Swiss watchmaker.

Monaco Classic Week, which from 12 to 16 September will welcome some forty traditional yachts, a dozen period motor-boats and around twenty speedboats, is an invitation to go back in time, to rediscover the atmosphere of those first motor boat gatherings from the beginning of the 20th century.

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Provisional Sailing Programme

Thursday 13 September
1pm Race for traditional yachts
2pm Timed challenge for motor-yachts

Friday 14 September
1pm Race for traditional yachts
3-4pm Exhibition of dinghies and Speedboats

Saturday 15 September
10am Sailing yachts Concours d’élégance parade in the port
1pm Race for traditional yachts
2-4pm Motor yachts Concours d’élégance parade in the port
3.30-5pm Exhibition of dinghies and speedboats

Sunday 16 September
11am Prize giving (by invitation)
2pm Departure of traditional yachts for Monaco to Nice race, a brand new open sea challenge along the French Riviera coast.

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