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YACHT CLUB DE MONACO

The Art of Living the Sea The YCM is resolutely turned toward the future,
including that of energy, hosting its first solar
The Yacht Club de Monaco’s new building and electric boat gathering in 2016. Organized
itself resembles a ship, anchored at the quai in collaboration with the Union Internationale
Louis II. Inaugurated on June 20, 2014, it bears Motonautique (UIM) and the Prince Albert II of
the prestigious signature of English architect Monaco Foundation, this event gives free rein to
Lord Norman Foster and was conceived with the imagination and talent of young engineering
respect for the environment. This commitment students eager to use these races as a platform
was rewarded in June 2016 with ISO 14001 to raise public awareness of modern, clean
certification, an environmental management technologies’ potential in the fight against
process that grants the Club eco-responsible global warming. The gathering, unique in the
business status. Mediterranean, is the first and only competition
among solar-powered racers on a single stretch
The YCM extends this philosophy beyond its of open sea.
walls by encouraging environmentally orientated
round-the-world sailing expeditions to use
Monaco as their starting point. One example
is Mike Horn who set off on May 8, 2016 on
his Pole2Pole adventure covering 42,000
kilometres by sail, by road and on foot and
visiting both poles. A few months later, on
November 17, 2016, Yvan Griboval set out
on his OceanoScientific Explorer, a 16-metre
sailboat, for a completely energy-independent,
non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe.

Founded by Prince Rainier in 1953 and presided
over by Prince Albert II of Monaco since 1984,
the YCM is a private club counting 2,000
members of 68 nationalities.

www.yacht-club-monaco.mc