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Andy Soriano and the Alegre took first blood of the 2015 52 SUPER SEASON when they comfortably won Race 1 of Ford Vignale Valencia Sailing Week. With John Kostecki calling tactics for owner driver Soriano they were off the start line near the pin end or the start line and able to benefit on the…

Valencia’s dockside in front of the famous Veles e Vents building was positively buzzing this morning as the 52 SUPER SERIES fleet prepared to head out for the first races of a new season which sees nine brand new boats line up today within the most competitive fleet this circuit has seen since it was…

The French Paprec team of Jean-Luc Petithugenin made the best possible start to their campaign with their new boat, the former Rán, which they took delivery off at the back end of of last season. With no time to practice prior to the start of racing, they put the new Paprec Recyclage on the water…

It is a mighty hot seat to step in to. It is all change at the back of 52 SUPER SERIES champions for this season as America’s Cup winner and multiple Match Race world champion Ed Baird moves aside as the owners Doug and Dalton DeVos have found enough time this season to enjoy steering…

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 Costa Smeralda finished with three consecutive wins…

Racing in more breeze than the first two days of Gaastra PalmaVela, Azzurra fond 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 Palma ahead of Austin and Gwen Fragomen’s Interlodge which took two second places. Uprange…

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 Vela today. 
The maiden race for the debuting Alegre, Azzurra and Quantum Racing was contested in…

It looks like it will be bext week, pre Gaastra Palma Vela, before the latest of the newly launched, latest generation TP52s take the chance to line up against each other. Though it is widely acknowledged that being up to optimum speed as early as possible before the 52 SUPER SERIES season starts in Valencia…

Photography: © transpac52.org Harm Müller Spreer was an interested visitor to Ibiza two years ago. The prominent German owner had seen and heard about the success of the 52 SUPER SERIES and wanted to see it for himself. After a spell away from top level grand prix racing his competitive urges were surfacing again and…

Pedro 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 to Lisbon the 470 and Laser. Pedro would also sail on board his father’s yacht…