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(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…
With another good start off the pin end of the start line Luna Rossa won Race 6, to become the first team to score back-to-back victories at this Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. Their second victory takes the Italian America’s Cup team to second step on the podium after Phoenix placed tenth and…
(Thursday 23rd August, Puerto Portals) – It may have looked like a relatively straightforward summer sea breeze on the Bay of Palma, but today’s two races contested by the ten TP52s at the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week proved particularly hard to read. The fact that is was difficult to retain a high…
When they won Race 5 of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Weekm Luna Rossa served up the perfect response to a bitterly disappointing first race in which they were penalised for an incident with Gladiator. The Italian America’s Cup team started best off the pin-end of the line and owned the early left…
After a modest first day on the Bay of Palma, Sled won Race 4 of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week to resume the level of consistency that has been their hallmark this season. After a solid start they chose the middle of the first upwind and were able to get right as…
After a breezy, spectacular Rolex TP52 World Championship in Cascais last month, the Bay of Palma served up a typical Pandora’s Box of sea breeze delights for the first three races of the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. Although the general trend was for the gains to be made on the right side…
