The Aegean 600

The Aegean 600 is the Hellenic Offshore Racing Club’s flagship offshore race, a non-stop 605-nautical-mile loop through the Aegean Sea. The club was founded at Piraeus in 1961 and is the senior offshore racing authority in Greece. The seventh edition returns to Cape Sounion in early July 2027, the fleet starting beneath the fifth-century BC Temple of Poseidon on the headland.

The course runs south from Cape Sounion past Milos, through a gate at the Santorini caldera, south past Kassos, Karpathos and Rhodes, then north through a gate between Mykonos and Delos before returning to the start, taking in 13 Aegean islands with no harbour stop between start and finish. Monohulls are scored under IRC and ORC, multihulls under MOCRA. The fleet gathers at Olympic Marine in Lavrio in the days before the start.

The race has grown across its editions. The sixth, held in July 2026, drew a record 77 boats from 21 nations, a 30 percent increase on the previous year, among them 12 entries in the Maxi Class, the largest such fleet in the race’s history, and 13 double-handed crews. The Region of Attica and Olympic Marine at Lavrio serve as co-organisers.