About the Round Lundy Rally

Ilfracombe Yacht Club has been hosting the annual "Round Lundy Rally" since 2005 and is the club's main event in the sailing calender for home and visiting yachts.

The rally itself is considered to be one of the most challenging events here in the South West, with skippers having to cope with some of the highest tides in the world, overfalls and at least three tide races in order to circumnavigate Lundy Island some 24 miles away from Ilfracombe, and all within a twelve hour period.
 

Needless to say, the rally continues to attract yachts of all sizes and descriptions from clubs and individuals from the whole of the Bristol Channel, also as far away as Cornwall, and West Wales, all eager to win the coveted Trafalgar Trophy. In previous years everything from a Hawk 20 to a Whitbread round the world racing yacht has featured with a record entry of 60 boats so its very much open to all.