And every year, YACHT photographer Tobias Stoerkle from Lake Constance captures it perfectly. The Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta 2022 also had it all. 32 yachts responded to the call to Antigua and competed for their winners in three coastal races. These included the staysail schooner "Ashanti", the Herreshofff design "Mary Rose" from 1929 and the two designs by Klaus Röder, the 157-foot staysail ketches "Chronos" and "Rhea". Paying guests can take part in the regatta on the latter, otherwise the Antigua Classics are largely reserved for owners and their crews, unlike the many other Caribbean regattas in which conventional charter yachts can also take part.
The Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta was co-invented in the 1980s by the then captain of the "Ashanit IV", Uli Prüsse. The owner of the sailing school Kapitän Prüsse on Hamburg's Outer Alster had founded the regatta together with like-minded people in order to offer older boats a regatta home.
