India's Premier Offshore Yacht Race
Ocean
Gold
Mumbai · Arabian Sea · Goa
Season I · 2025 Recap
The inaugural passage, in motion
From the Gateway of India to the Goan coast — relive the moments that made the first Ocean Gold Yacht Race a story worth telling.
The Race
Where the Arabian Sea
becomes your canvas
The Ocean Gold Yacht Race is India's most distinguished offshore sailing event — a passage race of extraordinary ambition, tracing the storied western coastline from the Gateway of Mumbai to the golden shores of Goa.
Governed by Yacht Racing India and organised by the MG & G Area Sailing Club, the race returns for Season II in January 2027 — building on the inaugural December 2025 edition. The sea does not distinguish between rank or reputation. Only seamanship endures.
The Aesthetic of Racing
Sailing in Style
From the grain of a teak deck to the arc of a spinnaker — yachting is a craft of precision, elegance, and speed.
India & the Sea
A nation born to sail
Long before the word "race" entered a sailor's lexicon, India's mariners were charting the known world. The Ocean Gold Yacht Race is not merely a sporting event — it is a homecoming.
The First Seafarers
Lothal's tidal dockyard — the world's oldest — proved India was sailing the ocean before most civilisations named it.
IMasters of the Monsoon
Indian navigators turned the monsoon into a highway. The Arabian Sea became a working ocean — theirs.
IIKanhoji Angre & the Sea Lords
The Konkan we race today was Kanhoji Angre's coast — undefeated at sea for forty years.
IIIRace Programme · Season II · YAI Official Calendar
The Journey
From briefing rooms to open ocean — eight days charting the soul of the Indian coast. Per the Notice of Race, published with the Yachting Association of India.
Registration & Briefing
Skippers' briefing, press event & lunch — Royal Bombay Yacht Club
Fleet Flag-off
Keelboats & Seabirds start together — Gateway of India, Mumbai
Vijaydurg Halt
Fleet arrival & evening dinner — Vijaydurg Port
Leg 2 — To Goa
Seabirds 08:00 · Keelboats 14:00 — Vijaydurg restart
Goa Arrival
Fleet finish & OGOR cocktails — Goa coast
Goa Yachting Rendezvous
Grande Island race & Seabird series · OGOR Regatta Dinner & Prizegiving — Goa (venue TBC)
GYR Finale
Seabird fleet races & prize distribution — Goa
The Course
A passage across
India's golden coast
Mumbai — Race Start
Yachts depart from Mumbai, heading south along the Konkan coast. The Gateway to the ocean — expect boisterous conditions as the fleet spreads across the Arabian Sea.
Offshore Passage
The longest and most demanding stretch. Crews navigate open ocean under sail alone. Navigation, stamina and teamwork are everything out here.
Goa — Race Finish
The approach into Goa waters marks the crescendo. Crews arrive on the Goa coast for the prizegiving ceremony, celebrations, and the company of the sea (venue to be confirmed).
Ocean Gold
Season II
3 – 10 January 2027 · Mumbai to Goa
Officially sanctioned by the Yachting Association of India and listed on the YAI national calendar for 2027.
Season I lit the flame. Season II will set the ocean ablaze.
Building on the success of December 2025, the second edition of the Ocean Gold Yacht Race will be a bolder, grander, and more celebrated event — with a larger fleet, an expanded shore programme, and the kind of evenings that become stories told for years at anchor.
The race structure remains true: Mumbai to Goa, offshore, under ORC rules. But everything around it — the spectacle, the parties, the atmosphere on land — will be amplified to match the scale of India's growing sailing ambition.
- Larger fleet with expanded class categories
- Pre-race gala in Mumbai — a night before the ocean claims you
- Luxury spectator vessels with privileged views of the flag-off and the Goa finish
- Spectacular after-parties in Goa — sail hard at sea, party hard on land
- International crew programme welcoming offshore sailors from abroad
- Prizegiving gala dinner in Goa — venue to be confirmed
From debut to
defining race
Portfolio
The Indian Ocean, in frames
Sail, silk and salt spray — a glimpse of Indian yachting as it is lived on the Arabian Sea.
Join the Race
Are you ready to
sail offshore?
Whether you own a yacht or are seeking a berth as crew — the Ocean Gold Yacht Race welcomes India's finest sailors to compete on the Arabian Sea in Season II, 3–10 January 2027. Now officially on the Yachting Association of India's 2027 calendar.