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(Monday 17th August, Valencia) – Eleven TP52s sailed the Official Practice Race today off Valencia’s Malvarrosa Beach, the final prelude to Tuesday’s start of the final regatta of the season, the 52 SUPER SERIES Valencia Sailing Week. Each of the teams returned to the Marina de Valencia, all focused on the same objective, to finish…
(Sunday 16 September, Valencia) – On the eve of the final regatta of the season the 52 SUPER SERIES family turned out in force in Valencia to honour friend, colleague and former crew Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson on the occasion of the 5th Bart’s Bash. Sailors from all 11 TP52s, many of whom competed with…
(Friday 14th September, Valencia) – For the grand finale of an incredible 2018 season, the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit makes a very popular return to Spain’s America’s Cup city of Valencia. Next week eleven TP52s will be docked in front of the iconic Veles e Vents building and will race off the famous…
On the eve of the final regatta of the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES, the circuit’s sailors will remember their good friend, Olympic Gold Medallist, America’s Cup Sailor and TP52 Team Origin strategist, Andrew Simpson, on Sunday morning, 16th September, with what will be known as the “TP52 Valencia Bart’s Bash-Tri”. A short, sharp, inter-boat kayak…
(Thursday 30th August) – At the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, recently held in Mallorca, the prominent hydration station from Bluewater – a world leader in water purification technology and solutions – served up a record-breaking total of 5000 litres of purified drinking water to competitors, staff and passers-by; representing an environmental saving…
(Saturday 25th August, Puerto Portals) – The Bay of Palma served up a week of mostly atypical, unsettled and changeable summer sea breeze conditions for the fourth regatta of the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES season, the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. The challenges to the tacticians, helms and speed teams of the ten…
CONGRATULATIONS to Quantum Racing for winning the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. With a solid fourth place in the final race, which was won by Azzurra, Doug DeVos and the team on Quantum Racing win the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, their second title in a row and now their third…
Provezza, last year’s winners, triumphed in the penultimate race of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, but with a well-earned second place ahead of Platoon with third, and Azzurra fourth, Quantum Racing are on course for their third regatta title of the season. Podium contenders Luna Rossa were over the start line early…
(Friday 24th August, Puerto Portals) – The 2017 regatta on the Bay of Palma enjoyed the closest of finishes, this 2018 edition is shaping up for a repeat performance. Though they had their worst day of the regatta so far, returning a sixth and an eighth, Quantum Racing go into the final day of the…
Sled won the second race of the day at the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week while regatta and circuit leaders Quantum Racing completed a disappointing day scoring a sixth then eighth. But over a day that saw more ups and downs for the majority of the teams, Doug DeVos’s crew still leads the…
