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Sweet 16's last minute adjustments and a whole new world
The final entry for the City of Alicante Trophy, sixteen boats, are lined up on the dock making final preparations for the City of Alicante Trophy – the first regatta of the 2008 Audi MedCup Circuit. Maximum time has been spent on the water over these final few days, or at the dock making final adj...
Winning start for Neville Crichton & Brad Butterworth
Partnership between teams of Alfa Romeo, the fastest maxi yacht in the world, and Alinghi, the America's Cup defender, gets off to the best possible start, with Neville Crichton adding more silverware to his trophy cabinet ...
Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes is back
LaserPerformance (Europe) Ltd and Volkswagen are delighted to announce that 2008 will see the return of the Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes at Skandia Cowes Week. With the question being, who will be crowned King this yer? ...
Just one week to go
This is a critical period for boats preparing for the first regatta of the 2008 AUDI MedCup Circuit. With just one week to go to the first race of the season for the AUDI MedCup Circuit, activity amongst all teams in preparation for racing is at an all time high....
Setting sail in Valencia
Valencia may be pitching hard to ring-fence their role as America's Cup host city, but the last few days have seen Spain’s America's Cup City assume a temporary role as ‘TP52 City’ with the Cup Village waterfront hosting no fewer than five new TP52’s in the water, sailing or making ready to sail, an...
PINTA-M BIG WINNER OF LONG AND COLD NORTH SEA RACE 2008
The Pinta-M of skipper Atse Blei (NED) is the big winner of this year’s North Sea Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club and part of the ABN AMRO North Sea Regatta. With an average breeze of nine knots the North Sea Race took very long. The smaller boats sometimes had to fight not to stay in...
DESAFIO WINS FIRST EVENT OF GP42 QUEBRAMAR CUP
Desafío, the Spanish GP42 team, was crowned winner of the Trofeo Pirelli, opening event of the Quebramar GP42 Cup 2008, after yet another excruciatingly light and testing day on the waters of Santa Margherita Ligure. Just three boats managed to finish the fourth and closing race of the event...
NO WIND IN SANTA MARGHERITA LIGURE,
RACING IS CANCELED As forecasted by yesterday’s weather bulletins Santa Margherita Ligure and its gulf gave no chance to the eight participants to the first GP42 Quebramar Cup 2008 event, the Regate Pirelli, to race....
DESAFIO CONSOLIDATES ITS LEADERSHIP IN LIGHT WINDS
The eight crews of the GP42 fleet were greeted by light and testing conditions during the second day of the Quebramar GP42 Cup, similar to the opening day. Desafío, the Spanish team, prevailed once again, finishing first in the day’s only race and consolidating their leadership in the overall standi...
MEAN MACHINE TP52/ MEAN MACHINE HIST THE WATER IN VALENCIA
Just 24 hours and counting to the official ceremony to celebrate the launch of the brand new Mean Machine TP52, and Peter de Ridder’s crew have already started training on the water in Valencia, Spain. Following over a week putting together the new TP52 designed by Rolf Vrolijk and built in New Z...