A splendid week with races every day! Today was the last day of the first week of Les Voiles in its new format: 140 Modern yachts and 82 Classic yachts endeavored to make the most of every last puff of the breeze in the race zone of Saint Tropez.

Patrizio Bertelli’s Scud (Herreshoff 1903) with Torben Grael on the maneuvers absolutely smashed it in the Period Gaffer A group competing for the Rolex Trophy. The smaller gaffers (Gaffer B), were unable to quash Eva’s (Fife 1906) natural affinity for Les Voiles, despite the best efforts of Oriole , another Herreshoff. The Q Class Jour de Fête (Paine 1930) battled hard to take the win in the Period Marconi B against the formidable Stormy Weather (Stephens 1931). The Lady Anne, the 15mR Fife launched in 1912, secured victory in the Grand Tradition category ahead of the cutter Halloween and the mighty ketch Sumurun . The Sparkman & Stephens design Blitzen also had an absolute ball out on the water at the head of the Period Marconi A fleet, which ultimately saw her beat in the Bermudan yawl Varuna . The C32 Andale (Potter 1951) won the day and the week in the group of Marconi Cs ahead of the 8mR Carron II. Lys , the Monacan sloop (Sparkman & Stephens 1955), Resolute Salmon , the Encounter and the Cork harbor one-design Jap were the other outright champions of Les Voiles 2021…

And on shore…

An all-new Les Voiles trophy was this evening awarded to Sagittarius (Sparkman & Stephens 1974) for best One Tonner, a Class destined to be in the spotlight in future episodes of Les Voiles. These One Tonners are sailing dinghies measuring up to 7 meters in length, capable of planing in certain conditions and built with as light a scantling as possible, the balance being achieved by the crew. These sailboats were also present at the Olympic Games in 1900 in the class of 0.5 to 1 tonne.