52 SUPER SERIES Valencia Sailing WeekNews
The 2024 world champions, Tony Langley’s Gladiator may have laid down a marker ahead of Tuesday’s start to the Rolex TP52 World Championship when they led both of today’s light wind practice races. After a solid showing at May’s first regatta of the season, finishing sixth in Puerto Portals, Mallorca, the British flagged team which…
The Rolex TP52 World Championship in Porto Cervo represents the perfect opportunity for Mauro Gestri’s Italian team on Vudu to step up and challenge themselves at the highest level of class racing. They are a relatively new team, having just joined up for the first time last year, but they are already successful having recently…
From a record sized fleet, 15 boats from 11 nations, more than half will start next week’s Rolex TP52 World Championship in Porto Cervo, Sardinia with a realistic hope of winning the 2026 world title. The level is so universally high that it will be the team which avoids the ‘big numbers’ which will win.…
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Bowman’s last minute mast climb saves Sled’s victory at Puerto Portals 52 Super Series Sailing Week
Winners of the last regatta of 2025, Takashi Okura’s Sled sealed victory at this season’s opening event, Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week, with an excellent first and a third on a challenging race track in an offshore breeze. The Sled afterguard Murray Jones, Francesco Bruni and Andrea Visintini worked their particular alchemy which…
Winning the only race sailed today whilst overnight leaders Sled slumped to a 13th place, Ergin Imre’s Turkish flagged Provezza team lead Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week into the final day by a margin of three points. With Cole Parada and Santi Lange combining skills as tactician and strategist respectively on the orange…
As the Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week passed its midpoint today with two challenging races in an offshore breeze on the Bay of Palma it is the 2021 circuit champions, Sled, the runners up in 2026’s five regatta season which has moved clear at the top of the 14 boats fleet. More than…
With no score outside of the top five so far, after four races Ergin Imre’s Turkish flagged Provezza leads Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week. The team which won their first regatta together on these Bay of Palma waters out of Puerto Portals in July 2017 has returned a seven points aggregate on both…
A remarkable first day of the 2026 52 SUPER SERIES season saw the newest boat in the record-sized fleet of 14 boats, Swedish flagged Trinity Racing steered by young rookie owner Joakim Sundberg win the second race of the day, just one month after the boat was launched. After two windward races sailed on the…
For all that most of the teams have enjoyed the perfect ‘dress rehearsal’ competing at the three day PalmaVela regatta on the same Bay of Palma waters, and then today contesting two short, sharp practice races, the sense of anticipation and excitement is as keenly felt as ever at Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing…
When the highly anticipated 2026 racing season starts Tuesday with Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week on the Bay of Palma the 14 teams representing 11 different nations will have had every opportunity to be fully prepared for what promises to be the closest fought, most exciting season ever. Most of the teams tested…
