Winners at the Antibes Raft Race 2018

A fantastic time was had by everyone who participated and came to watch the Antibes Raft Race on Saturday. The organisers are particularly grateful for the enthusiasm across the yachting community and the generosity of sponsors, all of which made the first race since 2012 such a success. The event will have raised a large amount for the Anibes Lifeboat and Restos du Coeur - final numbers will be revealed next week. 

Tomorrow, Friday 20th April 'Post Event Drinks' will take place in the Blue Lady pub from 6pm, when the raffle will be drawn and the winning bid for the Schiller water bike will be announced. 

Who cares who wins? well apparently all of you...so without more ado, here are the awards for the 2018 Antibes Raft Race!

Most Exceptional Crew who received the Caramba Cup from bluewater: The Antibes Pompier Raft

The Fastest Raft In Town who received the Speedy Gonzalez award from Nautica Assistance: Edmiston’s Savage Pirates Raft

Most Entertaining Crew prize from Port Vauban went to: Sunseeker’s ‘’Best Dancers’’ Raft

The Most Outrageous Outfit Award from Gourmet Deliveries went to: Banana Bar’s Banana Raft with all of them dressed as…Bananas!

The Finest Built Raft Award from HEM went to: Le Blue Lady Raft for the fully functioning bar on their raft

The Best Equipped Raft received the Best Raft Refit Award from Monaco Marine: SNSM Cros de Cagnes’ raft ‘’Glou Glou’’

The Most Rebellious Crew received the YPI Crew award: SNSM Antibes Lifeboat’s raft ‘’Tout en Plastic’’

The award for ‘The Raft We Would Least Like To Insure’ given by Sturge Taylor went to: Port Vauban’s ‘’No Life’’ Raft

The Biggest Cheat Award given by Octomarine was given to Inter-Nett’s raft ‘’Inter-Wett’’, or should we say rafts….They had cleverly constructed 2 identical rafts in a bid to skip half the course and confuse the judges!

Finally, the Winning Raft as agreed by the judges for Best Crew Overall went to HEM!

We should also add the special mention prizes awarded by the Judges... Petra from Port Vauban awarded Dolphin Wear & Deckers with a special award for their ''most inefficient paddling'' on-board their raft WILSSOOOONNN!!

Mark from Excelerate Marine awarded a special 'Judges' prize to M/Y Kingdoms raft ''Lets Get Sheepfaced''. A special thanks go to Excelerate Marine for hosting the judges and media on their yacht Excelerate Z. 

Post Event Drinks 

We are hosting a post Raft Race raffle event on Friday 19 April at The Blue Lady pub in Antibes from 6pm. We will be drawing all the raffle winners and handing the prizes out, as well as announcing the winning bid for the Schiller Water Bike. There is still chance to purchase your 2€ raffle tickets from the Raft Race team or from bluewater, and if you fancy getting involved with the sealed auction bid for the awesome Schiller bike that Costas was whizzing round on, be quick! We have received a few bids already, see the facebook page for more details.

Photo credit: Thanks to Tami at Excelerate Marine for the use of photos.