Traditionally a team of black or white results, Charisma of Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons was very much in the latter phase, when his team defied the odds to win all three races on the opening day the 44Cup Cascais. This annihilation of his ultra-competitive opposition comes after Charisma was...

While the opening day of the 44Cup Cascais saw the rare occurrence of one boat - Nico Poons' Charisma - winning all three races, on Day Two it was back to the 44Cup ‘norm’ with lead changes and three different winners. Charisma performed consistently enough to maintain her lead at the half way st...

After two days of sun, Atlantic swell and prevailing northwesterlies, conditions turned around for Day Three of the 44Cup Cascais. Overnight the wind veered into the south and in the morning the eight RC44 teams waited ashore for an extra hour and half as the wind filled in. Out on the race track...

Normally 44Cup events are decided in the final gybes of the last leg of the last race after four days of competition. But at the 44Cup Cascais, the second of the 2022 series for the high performance owner-driver one designs, the opposite was true. Charisma of Monaco-based Dutchman Nico Poons, set...

Racing in winds which were much lighter than Cascais has built its reputation for, Doug DeVos US flagged Quantum Racing has the early lead of the Rolex TP52 World Championship after opening with two second places. (CC Available)

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Maintaining a superior level of consistency Quantum Racing lead the Rolex TP52 Worlds by four points after another two challenging light winds races on the waters off Cascais. And while double world champions Platoon are pressing their US flagged rivals hard, pairing a fourth to a comprehensive r...

While Quantum Racing returned a second and a sixth to finish the day with a two points lead at the top of the Rolex TP52 Worlds, one of the most impressive displays was that of the Whitcraft family’s Vayu team which now lies second only two points behind the USA’s three times world champions. (CC...

A small, uncharacteristic error approaching the first windward mark of the second race cost regatta leaders Quantum Racing dearly but it sets up what promises to be an engaging final title showdown against Platoon for the Rolex TP52 World Championship 2022 crown. (CC Available)

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Cascais remains one of the most rewarding venues for the Quantum Racing team as Doug DeVos’ US flagged crew lifted the 2022 TP52 World Championship title, their third back-to back regatta win on the Atlantic waters off the Portuguese coast. This 2022 crown is special to tactician Terry Hutchinson...

The GC32 Lagos Cup, the pre-Worlds for next month’s GC32 World Championship, concluded in big breeze. Otherwise the historic maritime port on Portugal’s Algarve has laid it on, as Lagos has always done since the GC32 Racing Tour first brought its world class sailors here in 2018. Over four days 1...

K-Challenge Team France was the dominant force for the first half of this GC32 World Championship, held in Lagos, Portugal, but for the second half it was Christian Zuerrer’s Black Star Sailing Team which overtook the French on the final day. With outstanding consistency, the Swiss podiumed in ev...

Four days of racing at the GC32 Lagos Cup came to a conclusion on Portugal’s Algarve coast with a run-away victory for the Nicolai Sehested-skippered Team Rockwool Racing. Out of 15 races sailed, the Danish SailGP crew won a phenomenal ten, including an opening day of five races when they were un...