IMOCA 2026 Season: Five Races, One Brutal Standard If you want to understand where offshore sailing really lives now — you don’t look at one race. You look at the calendar. And in 2026, the IMOCA class didn’t just put together a season — it built a proper test piece. Five races. Different formats. Different pressures. Same outcome: if you weren’t ready, you were going to get found out. At the centre of it all, Class President Antoine Mermod looked ahead to his ninth season at the helm with a simple message — the numbers might ebb and flow, but the level never drops.