{"id":29055,"date":"2026-03-10T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/29055\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:50:08","slug":"high-level-competition-at-the-yacht-club-de-monaco-for-the-42nd-primo-cup-ubs-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/29055\/","title":{"rendered":"High-Level Competition at the Yacht Club de Monaco for the 42nd Primo Cup\u2013UBS Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">High-Level Competition at the Yacht Club de Monaco for the 42nd Primo Cup\u2013UBS Trophy<\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9f210ffc61ece8b9e0bd862443953542.jpeg\" alt=\"Monaco (Principality of Monaco) 6 March - The 42nd Primo Cup\u2013UBS Trophy takes center stage in Monaco. Organised in partnership with UBS, with the support of Monaco City Hall and equipment supplier North Sails, the event has brought together over 350 sailors from different countries competing in Monaco\u2019s waters. From J\/70 to Smeralda 888, and from Longtze Premier to Cape 31, sailing itself is the true protagonist of the competition. Big names from the international sailing circuit are also present in Monaco these days, including Dawn Riley. \u201cIt\u2019s really great to see so much activity. I\u2019ve also been talking with the Yacht Club de Monaco about the sport of sailing. I\u2019ve been speaking with people all over the world about how we can make the sport better&quot;, said Riley.\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Monaco (Principality of Monaco) 6 March &#8211; The 42nd Primo Cup\u2013UBS Trophy takes center stage in Monaco. Organised in partnership with UBS, with the support of Monaco City Hall and equipment supplier North Sails, the event has brought together over 350 sailors from different countries competing in Monaco\u2019s waters. From J\/70 to Smeralda 888, and from Longtze Premier to Cape 31, sailing itself is the true protagonist of the competition. Big names from the international sailing circuit are also present in Monaco these days, including Dawn Riley. \u201cIt\u2019s really great to see so much activity. I\u2019ve also been talking with the Yacht Club de Monaco about the sport of sailing. I\u2019ve been speaking with people all over the world about how we can make the sport better&#8221;, said Riley.  \u00b7 GlobeNewswire Inc.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">MONACO, March 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) &#8212; The 42nd Primo Cup\u2013UBS Trophy takes center stage in Monaco. Organised in partnership with UBS, with the support of Monaco City Hall and equipment supplier North Sails, the event has brought together over 350 sailors from different countries competing in Monaco\u2019s waters. From J\/70 to Smeralda 888, and from Longtze Premier to Cape 31, sailing itself is the true protagonist of the competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u201cWe saw many friends and supporters of the sailors coming together. We have more than 80 boats here, including over 40 J\/70s. I think we have a lot of people sailing, and it\u2019s possible to see the level progressing as the competition goes on. We have more than 10 nations sailing in the J\/70 fleet \u2013 Swiss, Italian, German, Spanish and Monegasque teams, with many members of the J\/70 Monaco Class Association. The quality of the regatta really helps to raise the level across all the fleets,\u201d said Olivier Campana, President of the Monaco J\/70 Class Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Competition is particularly intense in the one-design class, as the event also marks the fourth and final Act of the Monaco Sportsboat Winter Series for the J\/70s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u201cWe have been sailing the J\/70 for two seasons and, after the first season, we decided to come here for the Monaco Winter Series,\u201d explained Magnus Ullman, trimmer of the Swedish J\/70 team El Otro. \u201cWe\u2019ve found really tough competition here, with a lot of very strong teams. For us, as newcomers, it\u2019s extremely important to see what the top teams are doing on the water and try to learn from them. And I think we have learned a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Among the competitors are also teams that have been sailing in Monaco for years. \u201cWe have been sailing the J\/70 for two years now. It\u2019s a good boat and a great series \u2013 a very good sportboat. We particularly love Monaco because we know this venue very well. I actually had my first race here in 2013,\u201d said Louis Barbet, skipper of Eurovoiles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Big names from the international sailing circuit are also present in Monaco these days, including Dawn Riley. \u201cIt\u2019s really great to see so much activity. I\u2019ve also been talking with the Yacht Club de Monaco about the sport of sailing. I\u2019ve been speaking with people all over the world about how we can make the sport better.\u00a0This regatta is very important because it represents a great transition from \u2018I\u2019m in a dinghy with a coach\u2019 to \u2018I want to be a professional\u2019 or \u2018I want to own my own boat\u2019. The fact that you have university teams from England, sailors from Australia, and teams from New York and the United States is fantastic. They are shaping our future right here,\u201d said Riley, the first woman to head a team in the America\u2019s Cup, in which she has competed three times, and a two-time participant in the Whitbread Round the World Race (today The Ocean Race).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High-Level Competition at the Yacht Club de Monaco for the 42nd Primo Cup\u2013UBS Trophy Monaco (Principality of Monaco)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[17640,16070,17639,223,16071,16068],"class_list":{"0":"post-29055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ubs","8":"tag-dawn-riley","9":"tag-monaco-city","10":"tag-principality-of-monaco","11":"tag-ubs","12":"tag-ubs-trophy","13":"tag-yacht-club-de-monaco"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116205205773112272","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}