Tricky weather conditions for the GC32 fleet off Costa Calida in Spain for the final stage of the 2021 Racing Tour. Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team won both the GC32 Menor Mar Cup on Spain’s Costa Calida as well as the 2021 GC32 Racing Tour title. In this shortened season, Alinghi won three of ...

With two solid wins on Day One, Hasso Plattner’s South African flagged Phoenix team lead the Rolex TP52 World Championships and moved to the top of the overall 52 SUPER SERIES leaderboard with four days of the 2021 season remaining.

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The 52 SUPER SERIES is established as the world’s leading grand prix monohull yacht racing circuit. The year 2021 marks the 10th season of the 52 SUPER SERIES and shaped up to be the biggest and best yet! Coverage from the start to the finish with Sled taking the crown in Palma. (CC Available)

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Takashi Okura’s Sled crew with six times America’s Cup winner Murray Jones on the helm and Italian ace Francesco Bruni calling tactics won themselves a share of the overall lead of the Rolex TP52 World Championships on the Bay of Palma after two of the most challenging but exciting races of recen...

A seemingly unerring consistency, Platoon returning a pair of second places and Phoenix a pair of thirds, saw the German and South African TP52s locked in a three way tussle with the USA flagged Sled for the Rolex TP52 World Championship title. After six races only one point separates the trio.
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Takashi Okura’s Sled team emerged from a dramatic penultimate day of the short, intense 2021 52 SUPER SERIES season carrying a lead of just one single point in the chase not only for the Rolex TP52 World Championship title but also the 2021 circuit title. Racing cancelled on the last day due to h...

The 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, final and deciding event of the 2021 44Cup, got off to a difficult start. To race the nimble RC44s only need 5/6 knots of wind and on several occasions the race committee valiantly began a start sequence in more than this, only for the wind to disappear. (CC Av...

Conditions off Lanzarote’s moon scape south coast took on a different character for Day 2 of the 44Cup Calero Marinas Lanzarote, with much improved sailing conditions albeit with the 8-12 knot wind blowing either along or off the shore. For most, the day was one of mixed fortunes, none more so th...

A shallow depression centred due west of Gibraltar has effectively shut down the famous trades, which typically provide 20+ knot winds at this time of year in the Canary Islands, making it world renowned as a water sports mecca. While the forecast didn’t look hopeful, the nine RC44 teams were pat...

The schedule for the final day of racing, off the blackened alien landscape of Lanzarote’s south coast, was brought forward by two hours to 1000 UTC. PRO María Torrijo had made this call in order to provide the best window of opportunity to race given the forecast of a fourth day of light winds i...