News in 2018
Quantum Racing 52 SUPER SERIES Champions for 2018, Luna Rossa Win Valencia Title
Quantum Racing may have won the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES championship title, but unsailable light winds on the last day of the 52 SUPER SERIES Valencia Sailing Week denied them the chance to pitch for their fourth regatta win of the season. Luna Rossa, the Italian...
Doug DeVos and Quantum Racing strong in tricky Puerto Portals Sailing Week.
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...
Quantum Racing the 2018 ROLEX TP52 World Champion !!
Ten years after their first world title together in the class’ formative years in Lanzarote, Quantum Racing today lifted the Rolex TP52 World Championship crown in Cascais, winning a spirited ding-dong battle with rivals Azzurra in the typically muscular Atlantic...
Luna Rossa takes the 52 Super Series Zadar Royal Cup, Tina Plattner best owner driver!
At just their second regatta together on the 52 SUPER SERIES, the Italian team on Luna Rossa today lifted the Zadar Royal Cup proving that the genesis of their America’s Cup sailing team is already gelling into a strong, racing unit. Luna Rossa were sixth on their...
Quantum takes Sibenik but a win for all being this competitive !!
Doug DeVos’s Quantum Racing team exorcised memories of a disappointing third overall in the 2017 season when they clinched top honours at the first event of the highly anticipated 2018 52 SUPER SERIES, the Šibenik 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week contested on Croatia’s...
Azzurra wins PalmaVela in strong 10 TP52 fleet
The reigning 2017 52 SUPER SERIES champions Azzurra won last weekend’s Sail Racing Palma Vela regatta on the Bay of Palma from a very hotly contested ten boat TP52 class which contained no fewer than seven brand new boats. That the defending champions are in...
Eight Bells – Herb Reese
Herbert Ray Reese, one of sailing’s true unsung heroes, passed away on February 15 at the age of 70 in Solomons, MD. For the sport of sailing we all love, his immense contribution cannot be understated. Herb was a self-taught engineer who could move any weight, step...