Black Jack 100 crossed the finish line off Monaco at 12:06:46 on Thursday, August 20, claiming Line Honours in the 21st edition of the Palermo-Montecarlo offshore race, completing the 500-nautical-mile course from Sicily in a total time of 47 hours, 26 minutes and 46 seconds.
The result extends Black Jack 100’s dominance of the event, marking the crew’s fourth consecutive Line Honours victory in the race, though this year’s time fell well outside the course record the boat itself set in 2025, when it completed the course in 38 hours, 53 minutes and 13 seconds. Skippered by Tristan Le Brun and owned by Remon Vos, both members of the Yacht Club de Monaco, Black Jack 100 took the lead early in the race after overtaking rival maxi Fiamme Gialle Nice at the disengagement mark, having started from the Gulf of Mondello on Tuesday at 12:30pm alongside 38 other boats representing 11 nations.
The race, organised by the Circolo della Vela Sicilia in partnership with the Yacht Club de Monaco and the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, counts toward the Italian Offshore Championship and serves as the final round of the International Maxi Association’s Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge. Alongside Line Honours, the race also awards the Giuseppe Tasca D’Almerita Challenge Trophy to the first monohull across the line, while the broader fleet continues racing under corrected time for the Angelo Randazzo Challenge Trophy, awarded to the winner of the overall standings.
With the leading boats now in, the rest of the fleet continues its passage north, with the remaining crews still working their way up the Corsican coast and through the Strait of Bonifacio toward Monaco. The Palermo-Montecarlo 2026 prizegiving ceremony is scheduled for Sunday evening, August 23, at the Yacht Club de Monaco.