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Delivering an impressively consistent series across 10 races sailed in broad range of weather conditions Doug DeVos’s US flagged crew of American Magic Quantum Racing won the second regatta of the 2025 season to lift the prestigious Royal Cup for the fifth time since 2012. Although as Quantum Racing powered by American Magic they won…
Now holding a 13-points lead after today’s two races contested in 11-14kts winds at the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES ROYAL CUP, Doug DeVos’s American Magic Quantum Racing crew are on the cusp of completing their first 52 SUPER SERIES regatta win since victory in Barcelona in September 2022. The US-flagged team, guided by Terry Hutchinson…
After a bitterly disappointing first regatta of the season when they finished in an uncharacteristic last position in Saint-Tropez, France last month, the fortunes of the German flagged 2023 52 SUPER SERIES overall champions Platoon Aviation seem to have turned for the better. Harm Müller-Spreer’s crew were the top scoring boat of the day at the…
Patience, concentration, risk management and perhaps a highly developed sixth sense of the subtle changes in the light breezes, were among the key assets shared by the crews which did best today, the second racing day of the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES ROYAL CUP off Baiona. Over Races 3 and 4 of the series, the…
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American Magic Quantum Racing’s top level consistency gives 2024 champions a strong start in Baiona
The 2024 overall circuit champions, Doug DeVos’ American Magic Quantum Racing, lead the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES ROYAL CUP after two good races on the beautiful but challenging race area off Baiona on the NW corner. With Terry Hutchinson calling tactics and Harry Melges steering, Sara Stone navigating and Victor Diaz de Leon strategist, American…
Second at the first regatta of the season in Saint-Tropez, France last month, Takashi Okura’s Sled team today laid down a marker on the beautiful waters off Baiona, NW Spain as the top performers over the two official practice races sailed today on the eve of the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES ROYAL CUP. Gusty northerly winds…
Today (Friday) Galicia’s prestigious Monte Real Club de Yates in Baiona(Galicia, Spain) hosted the official presentation of the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES ROYAL CUP, the second scoring event for the 2025 season of the 52 SUPER SERIES, which will be held in the waters of the Vigo estuary from 2 to 7 June. The Royal Cup is an historic perpetual sailing trophy which…
With the programme shortened to just four races by very light winds at the 52 SUPER SERIES Saint-Tropez Sailing Week earlier this month, owners and crews are hoping that the move out into the Atlantic for the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES ROYAL CUP, the second of 2025’s five regattas yields stronger winds and some adrenalin…
Following the successful shipping of most of the TP52s from Nice in the Mediterranean out into the Atlantic and to Vigo on rugged northwest of Spain, the race fleet is now mustering in Galicia ahead of the GALICIA 52 SUPER SERIES Royal Cup. Nine of the eleven boats representing nine nations which are set to…
Making what proved to be the decisive winning move on the final run of the second and final race today, Britain’s Tony Langley and his world champion crew, secured overall victory at the first regatta of the five event 2025 52 SUPER SERIES season, the 52 SUPER SERIES Saint Tropez Sailing Week. Light winds and…