Overnight, light winds brought a steady stream of competitors up the Derwent River to the finish line, filling the Rolex Sydney Hobart race village in time for the New Year’s Eve celebration. All eyes were on Quikpoint Azzurro, the dark horse and smallest boat in the...

Azzurra are crowned 52 SUPER SERIES 2015 CHAMPIONS. Quantum Racing win the Cascais 52 Super Series Royal Cup. Cascais, Portugal is set to be painted a particular shade of blue tonight after Azzurra are crowned the 52 SUPER SERIES champions of 2015. The team which...

‘The Job is Done!”Azzurra clinch the 52 SUPER SERIES title with a day to spare. Azzurra clinched the 52 SUPER SERIES 2015 title today at the Cascais Royal Cup, reaching their mathematical finish line with a day to spare. Their points margin over 2014 champions Quantum...

Can Azzurra check out of 2015 with double top? Two beautifully composed, accomplished race wins in strong breezes and big waves today off Cascais highlighted once again why Azzurra are 2015's champions elect for the 52 SUPER SERIES 2015 title. Their double bullet,...

Twice in a row today Quantum Racing stuck to and executed their game plan perfectly. Consequently they won both races today at the Cascais Royal Cup to take the overall regatta lead, three points ahead of Azzurra. The champions elect composed two excellent second...

Spookie Sets the Pace in Portugal. As the 52 SUPER SERIES 2015 moved to the Atlantic, the regatta standings at the Cascais Royal Cup after the first two races reflect a certain American flavour. Jim Swartz’s Vesper crew instantly made their long odyssey from the USA...

Quantum Racing may have won the premier class at the 34th Copa del Rey MAPFRE, TP52s for the third time in a row when they won the final race but tactician Terry Hutchinson considers today's victory in the fourth regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES their hardest won and by...

A Finale Fit for a King! After a dramatic Friday which saw Quantum Racing as boat of the day posting a second and first, with owner-driver Doug DeVos on the helm, getting their Copa del Rey MAPFRE title defence back on track, Harm Müller-Spreer's German Platoon falter...

Platoon's Pin Perfection Prises Lead from Azzurra A golden day at the 34th Copa del Rey MAPFRE for Germany's Harm Müller-Spreer, two back to back wins on the Bay of Palma during which no boat crossed the bows of the distinictive 'armour clad'  Vrolijk designed TP52,...

Bronenosec Bounce Back to Win Coastal. While Vladimir Liubomirov's Bronenosec ran away with the 30 miles coastal race today, extending their polished record on the coastal tracks of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES to three wins and a second place, fifth place...

Azzurra made the best possible start to their 34th Copa del Rey Mapfre with two staright wins on the Bay of Palma capitalising on two strong starts to lead at each and every mark today. The crew which won the world championships last month on the same waters earn...

You had to be there to believe this. In the final race of the 2015 TP52 Worlds Quantum Racing sail themselves off the stage and see the owner driver Platoon (Harm Müller Spreer) take silver and the Turkish Provezza take bronze. For Harm Müller Spreer and Ergin Imre,...

Some fine aerial shots by Go-Pro expert Keith Brash. Courtesy Keith Brash / Quantum Racing.

Azzurra Stick to their Guns as TP52 World Title Beckons. Carrying a 14 points lead going into the final day of the TP52 World Championships, Azzurra need only two solid results Saturday to be sure of collecting the title. But so intense and closely matched is the 12...

From a long and hot day on the Bay of Palma, Azzurra increased their overall lead at the top of the leaderboard of the TP52 World Championships thanks to a second in the windward-leeward race which was a mere sprint compared the 20 miles coastal race which they won...

Double Bullets for Provezza, Azzurra lead world championships. Race wins have been somehwat elusive for Ergin Imre's team on the 52 SUPER SERIES circuit this season. The crew which has British Olympian Andy Beadsworth on the helm, American Tony Rey calling tactics and...

Platoon on the March in Portals Harm Müller-Spreer’s German flagged Platoon team sit on top of the leaderboard after the first day of racing on the Bay of Palma for the TP52 World Championship Porto Portals. A gun to gun win in the opening race of the five days...

Back in the Groove For Brazilian TP52 Phoenix owner Eduardo de Souza Ramos the wait has been too long and frustrating but the double Olympian today finally enjoyed his return to the TP52 fleet when Phoenix took second place in the official practice race for the TP52...

Twelve TP52s line up for the 2015 TP52 World Title at Puerto Portals. Next week the TP52 fleet return to Puerto Portals, Mallorca for the first time since 2008 when a twelve boat fleet line up to fight for the TP52 World Championship title at the third regatta of the...

Brava Azzurra! Winning in the breeze on their own home Costa Smeralda, Sardinia waters, showcasing that heady cocktail of tough Argentinian Gaucho spirit and fiery Italian passion that underpin their never say die team spirit, capped a remarkable Settimana delle...

Thrilling Win for Quantum Racing gives Champions the Edge into Sardinia Saturday Finale There have been probably dozens of photo finishes in the history of the 52 SUPER SERIES but today’s decider between Quantum Racing and long time rivals Azzurra was undoubtedly one...

A Three Cornered Title Fight From two sparking races, one windward-leeward, one coastal, the screws turned ever tighter as the three cornered battle at the top of the fleet at the 52 SUPER SERIES’ Settimana delle Bocche on the Costa Smeralda sees only one point...

Smeralda Straits Stars Bronenosec are Tsars of the day Vladimir Liubomirov’s Bronenosec crew won the first coastal race of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES season to top the overall leaderboard at the Settimana delle Bocche, but only ahead of the ferociously...

First Among Equals While different boats won both of the first two races of Sardinia’s Settimana Delle Bocche, the second regatta of the 2015 52 SUPER SERIES, as much as glittering race wins may contribute, it was the ability to grind back through the fleet from poor...

But Platoon Take the Gun As they do more often than not Azzurra yielded to superstition and bypassed the finish line of today’s official practice race for the second regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES, Costa Smeralda’s Settimana delle Bocche. Instead of taking the...

The Podium is Open in Sardinia The first regatta of the 52 SUPER SERIES 2015 proved there is no real hierarchy established in the white hot TP52 fleet this early in the season. With a very high proportion of race teams still looking to get the best, the final 10-15%...

Rán Wins Ford Vignale Valencia Sailing Week. Three Owner Drivers on podium!! From the biggest and most competitive fleet yet, Niklas Zennström and the Rán Racing team won the first regatta title of the 2015 SUPER SERIES when they kept their focus under the weight of...

Rán Have Valencia Title Within Reach.Between yesterday and today see sawing fortunes of the top title contenders at the Ford Vignale Valencia Sailing Week may have been tough to deal with on board the two leading TP52s but they have made for compelling viewing on the...

Sparkling Alegre Emegre on Top After Valencia's Longest Day.From a long and intense three race day on Valencia's world renowned Malvarrosa Beach race track Andy Soriano's Alegre crew, newcomers to the 52 SUPER SERIES, step clear at the top of the rankings for Ford...

Zennström‘s Rán keep cool under pressure to retain regatta lead.Two second places today, both of them hard earned from intense, close boat-on-boat combat, keep ice cool Niklas Zennström‘s Rán crew on the top of the 52 SUPER SERIES’ Ford Vignale Sailing Week.After a...

Coolly Consistent Rán Rise to Opening Day PressureWith all of the pressure and excitement of opening day of the 52 SUPER SERIES 2015 applied it was Niklas Zennström’s Rán crew on their new, recently launched Vrolijk design which rose best to the multiple challenges,...

2015 52 SUPER SERIES SETS THE HIGHEST LEVEL YET.Who will take first blood  in Valencia? What will the biggest and most competitive 52 SUPER SERIES fleet of TP52s be like? How close will racing actually be? How much difference will there be between the nine new boats?...

Ford VIGNALE Valencia Sailing Week is now one week away. The prestigious regatta, which raises the curtain on the 52 SUPER SERIES 2015, starts on 18th May with the first points of the season on the table. Nine brand new TP52s and three established well known boats...

Azzurra proved to be the team which, at this stage, is closest to their target of being on the money when the 52 SUPER SERIES starts in earnest in Valencia in just over two weeks time. Alberto Roemmers' crew under skipper Guillermo Parada, sailing for the Yacht Club...

Azzurra's Two Bullets Put Them In Title Contention. Racing in more breeze than the first two days of Gaastra PalmaVela, Azzurra found good speed from their brand new boat which allowed them to sail the way they wanted to and win both of today's races on the Bay of...

Quantum Racing prove their form leading Gaastra Palma Vela. Three wins back-to-back takes 52 SUPER SERIES champions Quantum Racing to the top of the TP52 Class at Gaastra Palma Vela which four 52's, three of them freshly launched new builds,  are using as a key tuning...

Interlodge Earns Slender Lead At Gaastra Palma Vela.It was not so much an early season showdown, much more a gentle winding up of the three brand new, recently launched TP52s which took to the race track in earnest for their first time ever at Gaastra Palma...

The contrast could not be bigger at first sight but it are hull sisters, Alegre and Quantum Racing, Botin designs build by Longitud 0. For Andy Soriano and the Alegre Team it is their first TP52 whilst for Doug DeVos and the Quantum Team it is their 10th year in the...

Sadly Pedro Mendonça has passed away. He had a long and distinguished sailing career following in the footsteps of his father, the Portuguese Olympic sailor Ernesto Mendonça. At the age of 18 he sailed dinghies like the Snipe and Sharpie 12 and later on after moving...

Tony Langley clearly happy at the tiller of his new Gladiator, a Rolf Vrolijk design built by Persico in Italy. Hull sister to Rán, both boats will race each other and seven other new builts at the first 52 Super Series event third week of may in Valencia.

As a picture tells more than a thousand words some photos of the launching and first sail of Provezza, a first peek of Quantum, yet another photo of Platoon and Azzurra leaving King Marine all shiny!

The new Provezza in the slings ready for launching. Owner Ergin Imre and complete Provezza sailing team in Auckland to take delivery of the boat. Andy Beadsworth still to join as he just finished the Caribbean 600 on TP52 Sorcha (2nd place overall in IRC and CSA)....

SORCHA 30 miles to go to finish Caribbean 600. In second place both on CSA and IRC handicap right now. Maxi72 Bella Mente has finished and looks like the winner of both CSA and IRC overall plus in class. Good Fun Race, stunning conditions!

Maiden sail of the Vrolijk designed, Premier Yachts build, Harm Müller Spreer owned TP52 Platoon in Dubai waters. Congratulations!

With nine new boats under construction and a minimum of twelve boats on the start at each 52 Super Series event 2015 promises to become an exciting year.