Today the Old Portena Ladies spent their morning watching the Bol d’Or and having homemade sandwiches for their picnic lunch. The Bol d’Or Mirabaud is the most important inland lake regatta in the world. Started in 1939, it welcomes mono-hulls and multi hulls each year on Lake Geneva, starting in Geneva. More than 500 boats encounter each other on this 123 kilometer (66.5 nautical miles) course from Geneva to Le Bouveret and back.