The yachting season calendar.
Every autumn the town fills with a century of sailing history — gaff rigs and grand-prix machines racing the same gulf — and the spectator programme is simply: be there, walk the quay, watch the light.
Watch the fleet from a bay, berth in the racing port for the night it matters, and be somewhere empty when everyone else is somewhere full — the spectator's art, chartered.
January indoors in Düsseldorf, February sprawl in Miami, March docks in Palm Beach, autumn's Monaco finale — the calendar's five big stops, matched to what each visitor is actually shopping for.
Four days in late September, Port Hercule filled with the year's superyacht output — the show that rewards the visitor who arrives with appointments, insoles and a hotel booked months ago.
Nine days, several hundred boats, one narrow strait with tide enough to float a grudge — the world's longest-running regatta is also its most watchable from dry land.
Europe's longest-running superyacht regatta opens the Mediterranean racing calendar each June from Palma's Club de Mar — the 2026 edition is its 30th, running 24-27 June.