Multihull Cup Opens 10th-Anniversary Regatta at Port Adriano
By Stephen Yardley · Edited by Stephen Yardley
The Multihull Cup begins its 10th-anniversary edition at Port Adriano, Mallorca, with three days of racing for high-performance cruising multihulls from 25 to 27 September.
The Multihull Cup begins its 10th-anniversary edition today at Port Adriano in Mallorca, bringing performance cruising multihulls together for three days of racing from 25 to 27 September. The event has used the same basic formula since its first edition in 2016: ocean-capable cruising multihulls remove the cruising gear, hoist race sails and compete on coastal and windward-leeward courses.
The 2026 fleet brings together established winners and newer boats with much less racing history against the group. That makes the anniversary edition relevant beyond the results themselves because it provides a direct comparison between different generations of high-performance cruising multihull design.
The sporting focus again falls heavily on ALLEGRA and Highland Fling XVIII. ALLEGRA is the defending Multihull Cup champion and a three-time winner, while the VPLP-designed Gunboat 80 Highland Fling XVIII won the event in 2024 and took the 2026 Superyacht Cup Palma multihull class.
The two yachts also met at the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup, where they finished level on points before Highland Fling XVIII took the title on countback. That recent form gives the Port Adriano meeting a clear competitive thread rather than treating the regatta as a standalone anniversary celebration.
The Gunboat 72 Layla returns alongside Highland Fling XVIII, while the 65-foot Morelli & Melvin-designed Gaea is back after making a strong impression in the 2025 edition. The 60-foot Ocean Explorer Cool Beauty II makes her Multihull Cup debut, adding an unknown quantity to a fleet where several boats already have established racing form.
These yachts are designed to cover serious cruising distances as well as race, which is the central point of the event. The Cup is not built around stripped-out grand-prix multihulls, but around boats whose owners use them for cruising and then switch into a much more aggressive performance mode for the regatta.
The official schedule runs from Friday through Sunday with a mix of racing formats selected around conditions off southwest Mallorca. Port Adriano gives the fleet immediate access to open water, while the surrounding coastline and islands provide options for longer coastal courses when the weather allows.
The compact three-day structure has helped the event remain deliberately smaller than the major maxi regattas, with owners and crews mixing closely ashore between races. For Superyacht Guide, the key follow-up will be the daily results and whether the established ALLEGRA–Highland Fling rivalry survives the challenge from the newer entries.
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