Allagrande Mapei Racing
Route du Rhum 2026
Saint-Malo › Pointe-à-Pitre · November 1, 2026
The Race
The Route du Rhum is one of the most legendary offshore sailing races. It takes place every four years, solo, from Saint-Malo to Pointe-à-Pitre, covering over 3,500 nautical miles across the Atlantic. Since 1978, it has attracted thousands of people to the starting docks and a million spectators along the entire route, until the finish in the Caribbean.
IMOCAs represent the premier class of the competition: the most extreme boats, the strongest navigators, and the most complex strategies. A solo transatlantic race without assistance that demands physical, technical, and meteorological preparation of the highest level.
Saint-Malo → Pointe-à-Pitre · 3,542 nautical miles
Route du Rhum 2026 — Official Teaser
The Season's Highlight
The Route du Rhum 2026 is the main objective of the season for Allagrande Mapei Racing. Everything that comes before it — the Vendée Arctique, the Défi Azimut — points towards this race, because it is here that progress is truly measured, where the boat and the skipper are judged by the ocean, alone.
Ambrogio Beccaria already knows this route. In 2022, in his debut in the Route du Rhum in Class40, he finished second. An extraordinary result for a first time on that course, against a very high-level fleet. Four years later, he returns to the same starting line in Saint-Malo, on a completely different boat and with an IMOCA season under his belt.
The Schedule
- September 20, 2026 Qualification Deadline Deadline for validation of the qualification route
- September 22, 2026 Press Conference Final list of entrants
- October 20, 2026 Village Opening Saint-Malo — open to the public
- October 21, 2026 IMOCA Parade Parade of boats in Saint-Malo
- October 25, 2026 Skipper Presentation 4:00 PM local time · Official evening event
- October 31, 2026 SAS — IMOCA departure Weather briefing / start at Palais du Grand Large
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November 1, 2026
1:02 PM Route du Rhum Start - November 13, 2026 First Awards Ceremony Guadeloupe — for already arrived skippers
- November 20, 2026 Second Awards Ceremony Guadeloupe
- December 3, 2026 Finish Line Closes
