The most anticipated annual event at the beautiful Royal Langkawi Yacht Club, the Royal Langkawi International Regatta 2023 returned on the 9th January and runs until the 14th
January 2023 for the 19th time since its pause due to the global pandemic.
The Royal Langkawi International Regatta hosts 25 boats coming from all over the
world for this biggest sailing event in Southeast Asia.
Contestants are diverse, all the way from Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Great Britain, Austria, United States of America and Denmark.
All sailing boats are competing for prestigious titles under seven classes in the highly
anticipated annual sailing event – namely the Racing, IRC 1 and IRC 2 class, Club
class, Multihull class, Sportsboat class and Ocean Rover/White Sail class.
Trophies and awards include the coveted Prime Minister’s Challenge Trophy (Racing
class), the Commodore’s Challenge Cup (Club Cruising class), the LADA-IRC
Challenge Trophy (IRC 1 class), RLIR-IRC2 Challenge Trophy (IRC 2 class), Langkawi
Sports Trophy (Sportsboat class), as well as the Malaysia Multihull Challenge Cup
(Multihull class).
The Royal Langkawi Yacht Club acknowledges their gratitude the sponsors including the
Ministry of Tourism and Culture Malaysia, State of Kedah, Langkawi Development
Authority (LADA), Malaysia Sailing Association, MIDF (Malaysian Industrial
Development Finance Berhad), Etihad Airways, Permanis (Revive & Tropicana), and
Hypergear.
They also thank the media partners, HOMME, Sea Yachting Magazine, and Digital
Visions Advertising.
The Royal Langkawi International Regatta is approved and sanctioned by the World
Sailing (formerly ISAF) and Malaysian Sailing Association (MSA).
For more information, kindly visit http://www.langkawiregatta.com/
