In 1994, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Prince Albert’s presidency and the 90th anniversary of the first international motorboat meetings in 1904, the Yacht Club de Monaco organized a first-of-its-kind event dedicated to classic yachting, then in full revival. Such was the success of this event, which brought together vintage motorboats, vintage motor yachts and traditional sailing boats, that it was repeated in 1996 and again in 1997 to celebrate the Principality’s 700th anniversary.
An exceptional line-up of traditional sailing yachts will once again be at the heart of Monaco Classic Week 2025. Representing the elegance and craftsmanship of bygone eras, these boats, often lovingly and meticulously restored, are still sailing today, testifying to the enduring legacy of traditional shipbuilding.
Intimately linked to the seventh art, yachts have fuelled the collective imagination be they “fl oating places”, “greyhounds of the sea”, legendary fi lm sets or real life protagonists in fi ctional fi lms. From Han Hass’s three-masted Xarifa (1927) to the schooner La Favorita (1914), or Christina O (1943) to Malahne (ex-Narcissus, 1937), these yachts are now embedded in cinematic culture. Several of these yachts have participated in previous editions of Monaco Classic Week, such as Orion (1910), now Sylvana, whose fame is forever linked to that of Ava Gardner and James Mason in the superb Pandora and the Flying Dutchman; or Maria del Mar (1946), today renamed O’Remington, on board which Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Marcello Mastroianni and Maria Callas have sailed. Th e 2025 edition of Monaco Classic Week celebrates this fascination with the return of some outstanding yachts: Kalizma (1906) once owned by Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor; Marge (1930), immortalised in Plein Soleil with Alain Delon; the legendary Zaca (1928) that belonged to Errol Flynn; the gaff – rigged schooner Invader (1905) aboard which Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard met and fell in love before their marriage; and the sumptuous SS Delphine (1921) whose unmistakable silhouette graced Th e Brothers Bloom film.
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