The 32nd edition of Student Yachting World Cup will be held in 2012 on October 28-November 2 in La Rochelle, France. Thirteen teams from Australia, Canada, Finland, France (2), Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and USA will compete in the 31-foot one-design Grand Surprise.
The SYWoC is an annual sailing competition organized by students at the Ecole Polytechnique, a French engineering school, seeing the world's best student sailing teams confront each other in a week-long series of windward-leeward and coastal races.