Team News
OPTIMUM Base, Kalamaki, Friday June 17th 2015, 22:00. Up to force 7 winds and seas will greet tomorrow OPTIMUM 3-ASPIDA-SAXOBANK competing in the 52nd Aegean Rally, the top offshore and most challenging event in the Offshore Sailing Calendar in Greece and one of the oldest and toughest in the Mediterranean. This is the 21st time that...
Spetses, Sunday June 21st 2015, 20:00. OPTIMUM-ASPIDA-SAXOBANK team members competed at SPETSES CLASSIC YACHT RACE 2015 that took place in Spetses island on 18-21/6/2015. This is the main event of Classic Yacht Racing in Greece and Classic Yachts from around the world are joining every year to live their myth in Greece and particular the waters...
Antibes, France. Sunday, June 7th, 2015, 17:00. OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team was honored by being invited to participate in the 20th edition of “Les Voiles d’ Antibes” on board Savannah, a unique 90 ft Spirit of Tradition one-off yacht. Team Optimum was represented by no less than seven members including Nick Lykiardopoulos of AERA fame...
Athens, Monday, June 1st, 2015, 22:00. It was an extra long weekend and a 9-race series over 4 days of racing in Faliron Bay. Yacht Club Greece organized perfectly the 23rd edition of its prestige event “Y.C.G Sailing Week”. OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team started the series scoring low but managed to turn the tables by...
Athens, Monday, May 18th, 2015, 10:00. The past weekend was the third consecutive that OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team campaigned hard, logging so far in no fewer than 13 individual races in the 2015 season. The OPTIMUM Team rolls nicely into its 22nd season and on Saturday scored a bullet during the 30-mile coastal “Patroklos Race”...
Athens, Sunday, May 10th, 2015, 22:00. This weekend, OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team competed in the 2nd regatta of the 2015 season namely “6th Athens Trophy 2015” organized by the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club. Five inshore Windward/Leeward races were conducted varying between 6 to 8 nautical miles each one in length. Two on Saturday in light...
Athens, Sunday, May 3rd, 2015, 23:00. OPTIMUM Yacht Racing Team completed the first regatta in the 2015 calendar on 3rd place in a weekend long series organized by the prestigious Yacht Club Greece (YCG). The Race Committee filed in 5 inshore races around buoys in Faliron Bay in sunny and light wind conditions from 7...
Athens, Wednesday, April 29th 2014, 20:00. Winter is over, Spring arrived and Optimum Yacht Racing Team is back in business for 22nd season since 1994. In 2015, Team Optimum will campaign one more year the all carbon Bruce Farr designed 52 footer Optimum 3 that has provided the platform for unrivaled successes to the Team....
Kalamaki, Sunday, October 26th 2014, 20:00. The 35th Rolex Middle Sea Race proved the toughest than all previous editions by all means. This is a 607-mile world class offshore race and for 2014 attracted a record of 122 quality entries spread in 5 classes from 24 countries. The start gun was fired on Saturday 18th...
Valetta, Malta, Thursday, October 23rd, 2014, 11:00 OPTIMUM 3-ASPIDA-SAXOBANK crossed the finishing line in Valletta, Malta on Wednesday at 18:06 under grey skies and storm force winds. “It was the toughest 24-hour period in the 46 year history of the race” said a Maltese sailor that has competed in all editions. Until now, 25 yachts...