The regatta, an event promoted by Anna Licia Balzan, Honorary Consul of the Principality of Monaco in Venice, will honour its tenth anniversary by lining up boats rich in history and with many important anniversaries at the starting line.

The tenth edition of the Trophy, which benefits from the patronage of the Venice City Council and the Italian Navy, has been enriched in these days with other entries of great interest: Atena by Compagnia della Vela, a Sangermani launched in 1973 to a design by Sparkman & Stephens, which in the lagoon will honour its first fifty years at sea. Palaia Tyche, an Apollonio yard celebrating its 60th birthday; this boat, designed by Englishman Alan Buchanan, is fitted out by Sebastiano Chiggiato, grandson of the well-known yacht designer Artù Chiggiato. The history and works of this Venetian naval architect, born in 1902, have been recounted in the book 'Le barche di Artù' (Artù's boats). Also entered is the 100-year-old auric schooner Morwenna, launched in 1914 in England by the Stow & Son shipyard to a design by Linton Hope. The boat, almost 20 metres long overall, had competed in the Fastnet in 1932 and was subsequently restored by the Chantier du Guip in Brest before arriving in the Mediterranean in 2013. The sail plan is still the original of the time. Among the smaller boats is Persephone, 6 metres long, restored by her own owner, Marco Dissera Bragadin of the Diporto Velico Veneziano. It was designed by Carlo Sciarrelli, the Trieste master of classic boat design who passed away in 2006. One of the oldest boats still sailing in the Mediterranean could not be missing: Santa Maria Nicopeja, built in Normandy in 1901 and restored by the Luca Casaril shipyard in Venice.

Thanks to the cooperation with the Boat Show and Vela Spa the fleet will be moored inside the Arsenale from 23 to 26 June. On Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 the two regattas will start in the waters off the Venice Lido. On Sunday morning around 11 a.m., before the second race, the competitors will parade for the traditional sail in St. Mark's Basin visible to the public along the banks.
The sporting direction of the event will, as always, be entrusted to Mirko Sguario, president and founder of Yacht Club Venezia, and will take place in collaboration with Circolo Velico PortodiMare and under the patronage of A.I.V.E. Associazione Italiana Vele d'Epoca.