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52 Super Series keenly anticipates September 2025 return to YC Costa Smeralda for season finale…

by 52 Super Series 7 Mar 22:04 AEDT 22-27 September 2025
52 Super Series Sailing Week Porto Cervo © Nico Martinez / 52 Super Series

When the 52 Super Series returns to race the 52 SUPER SERIES Porto Cervo Sailing Week between September 22nd - September 27th on the beautiful Costa Smeralda it will mark the return of the world's leading grand prix monohull circuit for the first time since 2019.

The regatta will be 2025's finale, the big showdown which seems set to be another exciting battle for the overall title. The 2023 season was decided on tie break and last year, 2024, the championship went to Quantum Racing powered by American Magic by one single point achieved on the last race of the year.

As it stands the 52 Super Series S are anticipating at least 13 teams competing, the biggest and strongest entry seen for many years. And while the line up will include past winners of 52 Super Series regattas organised by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda American Magic Quantum Racing and Sled, there will be high hopes for Andrea Lacorte and his Italian team who this year join the circuit on Alkedo powered by Vitamina for the first time. The boat is the former Azzurra which memorably clinched the 52 SUPER SERIES title at the season's finale in Porto Cervo racing in the emblematic colours of the YCCS.

Lacorte enthuses, "Porto Cervo seems like a place which was created by nature specifically for inshore and offshore racing. There are beautiful islands to sail round, because there is almost always wind, there is always sun - except on the odd occasion - and the scenery is fantastic. The waves are never too high, because the race course is protected by a ring of islands. And the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda is part of the history of Italian sailing.. And we have raced at four Porto Cervo regattas there before, two with the ClubSwan 50 and two with the Melges 32. To say it is one of the best racing venues in the world is an absolutely fact."

Sled would love to repeat their 2019 feat

The runaway regatta winners in 2019 were Takashi Okura's Sled, Don Cowie, project manager and mainsheet trimmer recalls, "I think we still hold the record for the highest number of race race wins in a single regatta at five in a row. We were smoking fast, Mr. Okura was sailing the boat well and it was a breezy regatta and we had made some changes which paid off. It was really special. We are looking forwards to being back in Porto Cervo. It is quite late in the year to to be there at the end of the season and so we hope to get some good sailing in and maybe we will be able to sail as well as we did there in 2019!"

Italian Vasco Vascotto has won at Porto Cervo dozens of times and is hoping this time he will be able to guide Harm Müller-Spreer's Platoon Aviation to secure the overall circuit title on these famous racing waters which for him, feel like home:

"My memories are of winning the 2015 and 2017 seasons with an incredible team like Azzurra and we achieved some great results in Porto Cervo under the flag of the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda on the splendid waters of Sardinia winning with a great team of great friends and racing companions. As an Italian it is a particular pleasure for me to return to Porto Cervo, in a year where we cannot help but remember those who unfortunately are no longer with us, but who made the history on these waters and of our sport His Majesty Highness the Aga Khan, and also our dear friend Matteo Auguadro."

52 Super Series winners at YCCS, Sardinia:

  • 2019, Sled
  • 2017, Rán Racing
  • 2016 Quantum Racing
  • 2015, Azzurra
  • 2014, Quantum Racing
  • 2013, Azzurra
  • 2012, Quantum Racing

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