Royan, stage town of the Tour Voile from Sunday June 29 to Tuesday July 1, 2025. The tour returns once again to the seaside resort.
Royan, twice a sailing race stopover town
The Sailing Tour
(from June 25 to July 13, 2025)
Ten years after his last participation, Royan has returned to the program of the Sailing Tour. This is a three-week nautical race organized since 1978 on the French coast. This premier event brings together around twenty crews from June 25 to July 13, 2025. It is presented as one of the two great annual classics of the discipline with the Figaro Solitaire.
The Charente resort will host the Tour Voile for three days, from Sunday, June 29 to Tuesday, July 1, 2025. This is an event for Royan that has not been included in the route of this great maritime loop since 2021. This race is part of the list of highly accomplished French skippers (Jean-Pierre Dick, winner in 1992 and 2001, Franck Cammas in 2013, and Fabien Henry, crowned three times in 2005, 2007, and 2012).
The Tour de Charente-Maritime, the first of its name
(July 6 to 10, 2021)
On Saturday July 10, 2021, Royan hosted a new sailing racing competition: the Tour of Charente Maritime. An organization of the departmental sailing committee with the support of the General Council. This inaugural edition was punctuated by four stages: four days between La Rochelle on Tuesday 6 and the pearl of the Côte de Beauté on Saturday 10, with an arrival in the early evening via the northern pass of the Gironde estuary.
The event is open to a fleet of forty crews of at least two people, each with FFV licenses. They must sail on habitable sailboats suitable for offshore or semi-offshore sailing, as well as to recreational racers. Two formulas are offered: races with rankings or rallies with no particular sporting stakes.
On site, alongside the Tour, the Traveling Sailing School of CDVoile17 organizes free initiations. Children and adults have the opportunity to discover the practice of the dinghy (a monohull) and to do stand-up paddle or even radio-controlled sailing.
For this new edition, Normandie Évènements is now taking over the torch from Amaury Sport Organisation. The company marks the return of rallying stages, notably withdrawn from the program in 2015. This is a classic speed race between a start city and a finish city. The sixth rallying day ends on Sunday July 18 off the Grande Conche, famous Royan beach. At the end of a 55-mile course that started in the morning at Châtelaillon-Plage, south of La Rochelle. follow from short regattas near the coast (inshore). They are visible to the public, in particular in the form of raids or rapid tests on marked routes.
