In Pictures: Race day 2 at Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta 2019

Perfect weather conditions greeted this year’s Loro Piana Regatta fleet this morning as racing got underway at 11:30 in the waters outside Porto Cervo with sunshine and a strong breeze throughout the entire day. The race committee made the most of the champagne sailing weather by sending the various classes on two opposing routes of roughly 30 nautical miles around the island of La Maddalena with the performance class lining up for an exciting fleet start. Photo: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht Times

The Wally Magic Carpet 3 and Perini Navi's Silencio both repeated their pole positions from yesterday in the performance and cruising classes respectively while the Southern Wind class belonged to Kiboko Tres today after All Smoke took the honours on day one, leaving this field wide open come the final race day on Saturday. Photo: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht Times

A lay day will see the fleet get a chance to recover and make repairs tomorrow while its business as usual for the Southern Wind class who continue their racing tomorrow. Photo: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesPhoto: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht Times