The French Riviera remains one of the greatest bastions of world yachting. Extraordinary regattas take place throughout the summer, and sometimes last a week or more. In these places of worship of the veil of competing skippers and owners of international renown from around the world at the helm of their boats, real monuments more than a century old and ultra modern, where the excess rubs elegance and fairplay.



Organizers? ... ports, well known for their festivities: St. Tropez, Cannes, Monaco, Antibes ...



This book, Moonbeam IV ... in regattas (310 color photos, B & W and sepia) makes you see these major events taking place on this small corner of paradise Azurean, along with "giants" such Lulworth, Mariette of 1915, Tuiga ...