{"id":60814,"date":"2025-08-11T14:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/?p=60814"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:38:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:38:33","slug":"caribbean-multihull-challenge-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/people\/caribbean-multihull-challenge-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Caribbean Multihull Challenge Adds New Line Honors Trophy for 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Layla-Tightly-Cropped-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image disable-lazyload\" alt=\"2025 Caribbean Multihull Challenge\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Layla-Tightly-Cropped-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Layla-Tightly-Cropped-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Layla-Tightly-Cropped-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Layla-Tightly-Cropped-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Layla-Tightly-Cropped.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">Gunboat 72 <i>Layla<\/i> powers to weather during the 2025 Caribbean Multihull Challenge.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Laurens Morel\/Courtesy CMC<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>When the Caribbean Multihull Challenge (CMC) launched in 2019, it quickly became a winter highlight for sailors who love speed, style, and the unique handling of high-performance catamarans and trimarans. For its eighth edition, set for February 2026 in Sint Maarten, the event is upping the stakes with a brand-new prize \u2014 a Line Honors Trophy for the outright fastest yacht in the fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe id=\"gkstfcayky\" src=\"https:\/\/cruisingworld.dragonforms.com\/gkstfcayky\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width:100%;height:165px;border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, CMC winners have been determined using the CSA handicap rule, rewarding skill, tactics, and boat speed in balance. That system will still be in play, but the new award strips it down to pure pace: first to finish over the regatta\u2019s four race days takes the honors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is about giving skippers and shipyards a platform to show off their stuff,\u201d say organizers. \u201cWe want to celebrate flat-out performance on some of the Caribbean\u2019s most exciting race courses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2026 program includes a 60-mile sprint around St. Barth\u2019s, a 52-mile dash to Saba and back, and a 27-mile navigational challenge weaving through the rocks and cays off Sint Maarten, plus a day of racing along the island\u2019s south shore. Conditions promise a mix of robust tradewinds and manageable seas \u2014 ideal for the large-production HHs, Gunboats, ORCs, and Catanas that dominate the multihull performance scene, as well as custom builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n        <section class=\"hydra-container\">\n\n\t\t\t                <div class=\"hydra-canvas\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FlyWithDede-for-CMC-glossy-1-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"hydra-image\" alt=\"Lee Overlay Partners catamaran\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FlyWithDede-for-CMC-glossy-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FlyWithDede-for-CMC-glossy-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FlyWithDede-for-CMC-glossy-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FlyWithDede-for-CMC-glossy-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/FlyWithDede-for-CMC-glossy-1.jpg 2000w\" \/>                <\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n            <figcaption class=\"caption margin_top_xs full border_1 hydra-figcaption\">\n                <span class=\"hydra-image-caption\">HH 66 <i>Lee Overlay Partners<\/i> stretches her legs in the brisk tradewinds of the 2025 Caribbean Multihull Challenge.<\/span>\n                <span class=\"article_image_credit italic margin_right_xs\">Fly with Dede\/Courtesy CMC<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t            <\/figcaption>\n        <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>While the sponsor for the Line Honors Trophy will be announced later, entries are already open. Registration is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yachtscoring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YachtScoring.com<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caribbeanmultihullchallenge.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CaribbeanMultihullChallenge.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For multihull sailors craving Caribbean breeze, competitive camaraderie, and a chance to push the throttles forward without looking back, the 2026 CMC just raised the bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caribbean Multihull Challenge will crown its first-ever fastest yacht in 2026 with a new award for line honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":60816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"Cruising World News Desk","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"ad_targeting":"","alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":"","sponsored_image":false,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true},"categories":[165],"tags":[1990,211,2108,197,2079,519,242],"class_list":["post-60814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-caribbean-multihull-challenge","tag-catamaran","tag-offshore-racing","tag-people","tag-races-regattas","tag-racing","tag-trimaran"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruisingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}