The fifth event of the International Maxi Association's 2021-22 Mediterranean Maxi Offshore Challenge is the Rolex Giraglia. This year's event returned to its traditional Saint-Tropez-Giraglia-Genoa course. However, with ultra-light winds forecast, its organizers, the Yacht Club Italiano, in collaboration with Yacht Club Sanremo and Société Nautique de Saint-Tropez, wisely scrapped the opening mark of La Fourmigue.
Furio Benussi's 100ft Grand Prix Maxi ARCA SGR was the highest-rated boat under IRC and the defending champion from 2021. She led the race most of the time, but the large Wallys - Charif Souki's Wallycento Tango, Jean-Luc Petithuguenin's 107 Spirit of Malouen, and Andrea Recordati's 93 Bullitt - were nipping at her heels. The most serious challenge came from Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones' Wallycento Magic Carpet Cubed. One of the most successful teams in this race's history, Magic Carpet Cubed, has claimed line honors in 2013 and outright victory under IRC corrected time two years later.