Wot Now wins, Fischer watches trophy sail by again. Graeme Wood’s TP52 Wot Now has claimed IRC Division 0/1 overall honours in the Rolex Trophy sailed outside Sydney Heads, fighting off a serious challenge from Syd Fischer’s like boat Ragamuffin to win by three...

An owner's perspective.  After just three years of sailing, Torbjorn Tornqvist won the MedCup. He talks to us about his Artemis campaign... A long and very interesting interview with the Best Owner Driver of the 2007 and 2008 TP52 World Championships....

Quantum Decides 2008 TP52 World Championship With One Race To Go. Congratulations Quantum. 1) Quantum 45 points. 2) Mutua 61 points. 3) Platoon 65 points. Owner Driver Trophy: Torbjorn Tornqvist, Artemis. Coastal Trophy: Quantum 5 points.

- Quantum is the undisputed World Champion - Mutua Madrileña 2nd overall - Platoon 3rd overall with a paper-thin lead of 0.25 points over Artemis Quantum Racing put a fantastic end to a spectacular season. After being crowned MedCup champions last month, the American...

Quantum increases overall advantage to 15 points with a 1st and 3rd. Puerto Calero, 24 October 2008: Two more windward/leeward races were sailed today and two more opportunities for Terry Hutchinson and Quantum Racing to show their excellent tactics, crew work and...

Great performance by Desafío, showing great control and the crew enjoying every minute of the race. To say the long coastal race of the TP52 World Championship Islas Canarias Puerto Calero was exciting would be a major understatement. While the start of the week...

Artemis leads coastal race from start to finish. The TP52 World Championship in Puerto Calero is all but boring and we were served a third day of intriguing competition on the waters of Lanzarote that resulted in yet another overall leader. We started with Artemis on...

It was another tricky day on the Lanzarotean waters for the 14 crews taking part in the TP52 World Championship – Islas Canarias Puerto Calero. The race committee had to move the starting line a mile further offshore, trying to get a better breeze but had to fire the...

Shifty, puffy, sunny..... Puerto Calero, 20 October 2008: The 2007 TP52 World Champion started this year's edition of the championship on a strong footing with a first and two seconds in tricky conditions. The opening day of the event was marked by a breeze that swung...

Puerto Calero, 20 October 2008: Monday to Saturday the TP52 World Championship Islas Canarias will take place on the waters of the Atlantic Spanish island Lanzarote with the participation of 14 of the world's best TP52's representing 11 countries. This is the first...

The VII Trofeo César Manrique Puerto Calero concluded today in lanzarotean waters. The breeze started blowing late and was quite shifty, but finally the TP52’s, GP42’s and Open Club classes were able to do one race. Desafío in TP 52’, Airis in GP 42’, Pasión x...

Desafio extends lead, margin now 11 points. Great conditions, 10 - 15 knots breeze, sun, air temperature 25 degrees, water temperature 23 degrees. Quantum and Artemis join in for couple of races and show good form with 2, 2, 2 (Quantum) and 1 and 4 (Artemis). After 6...

From today Thursday the 16th and until next Saturday the 18th, 74 boats from eleven different countries will take part in the VII César Manrique Puerto Calero Trophy, the last race of the Spanish GP42’ Championship as well as of the Quebramar Cup. The lanzarotean...

The TP52 show has come to Lanzarote for the 2008 TP52 World Championship. Hosted by the high quality resort town and marina of Puerto Calero, allready known with many in the sailing world for their hospitality and support of yacht racing, it has been another proof of...

Team New Zealand sailors have been at the forefront of the MedCup Circuit on different boats since the first year of racing. In 2006 the core of the winning Mean Machine crew, and the second placed Warpath crew were both from Team New Zealand. That was part of the...

Quantum Racing complete the double as they add the Trophy of Portugal to their overall victory in Audi MedCup Circuit. Steered by skipper Terry Hutchinson (USA), who started putting the winning campaign together just less than one year ago and has raced on the circuit...

The Quantum Racing crew came ashore today at the Marina of Portimao having secured the overall Audi MedCup Circuit 2008 title. Through a long, gruelling season Quantum showed to be the most consistent boat. Terry Hutchinson and the crew of the American boat Quantum...

Quantum Racing saw their Circuit lead eroded slightly while Matador won one race and finished second to take over third place on the overall Audi MedCup Circuit standings, while El Desafío leads the Portugal Trophy. Leaving the Portimao race course having dropped six...

Quantum Racing Team added a further 11 points to their Circuit leading margin by virtue of their 4,8,1 today to lead by 52.8 points over Bribón, it was the Audi Q8 and Synergy crews who showed the most marked improvements. Audi Q8 have modified their keel bulb, and...

Will Quantum keep her seemingly comfortable lead, or will we see a last event surprise? Many have travelled to Portimao to find out. Yesterdays practice race, if anything showed it is not going to be a walk in the park for the US entry. The practice starts were...

Final Day On San Francisco Bay Sunday's conditions were great, 8-10 knots in the morning, building to 15+ knots by early afternoon for the regatta's final race - known as the Bay Tour. The St. Francis Yacht Club Race Committee sent the 10 competing classes on courses...

The TP52 Class Manager was part of the winning crew on the Swan82 Favonius at the 2008 Swan Worlds.The series was sailed under difficult conditions, either very light or a lot of breeze, which was a good test of the skills of the PRO Peter Craig, who soon will join us...

Today the casino is fully open and in 6 knots of breeze the players are sailing from emotional highs into lows so fast that there is no time to reflect on what just happened to you. Race 9 sees all of the sudden Desafio leading the regatta on 45 pts, Bribon are tied...

The remarkable ‘never say die’ team spirit aboard Alberto Roemmers’ Matador (ARG), complemented by some smart calls from Thierry Peponnet and a healthy dose of sheer downwind speed all contributed to the key gain of four places on the final run of the last race today...

Action, excitement, thrills, spills and tension right to the finish line, Mutua Madrileña's two solid scored sees them top the leader board at the Region of Murcia Trophy regatta. From what was undoubtedly one of the most challenging and exciting coastal races of the...

In brisk winds and moderate seas off Cartagena the day’s biggest misfortune visited Platoon powered by Team Germany when a forestay fitting failed and they had to retire immediately. Bribón got  involved in an incident with Artemis (SWE). While Bribón sailed clear and...

First day 5th MedCup Event, Cartagena: “It was great, good waves and different open race course, nice to get a shifty race course. We took a few boats on the first run of the first race, and Ross did some nice work on the second beat and in the second race we managed...

23rd Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race 2008 The 384 nautical race, which began at 1pm on Saturday from Sydney Harbour, had everything – a delayed start, with light breezes, then a wind change as the fleet exited the heads of Sydney Harbour, strong winds offshore on...

TP52's participating: RAN                                                        GBR528R    1.370    RIO                                                          GBR93         1.369    HENRI LLOYD - CUTTING EDGE     GBR952R    1.364    STAY...

Peter de Ridder has decided to terminate his TP52 campaign for this season. “We’ve had some wonderful years in this class, but having lost our Mean Machine Mojo on the road to success, time has come to stop and take stock. I’ve considered the option to make changes to...

Desafio teams win Copa del Rey in TP52 as well as GP42!! A Terry-fic job. The party has started. Well done and congratulations. 1    DESAFIO         4.00    7.00    3.00    1.00    3.00    4.00    1.00    4.00    1.00    21.00 2    BRIBON           5.00    1.00   ...

Calling boats dogs never has a good sound, but the classic scenario unfolded today. The two top dogs fighting each other and the third one sneeking in on the bone with the best score of the day. If you remember that after 8 races there is a discard the results are...

TP52 Members at the TP52 Class Meeting during the Breitling Cup decided to freeze the Box Limits that are the basis of the TP52 Rule for the years 2009 and 2010. The timing of the decision is crucial to current members and newcomers to the TP52 Class that plan to...

Today it takes a while to get us going, breeze is not materialising like yesterday. But we manage to get two in just before 18.00hrs. Ten TP52's left for the competition, yesterday Audi Q8 continued her rig misfortunes, topmast snapped one meter below the crane for no...

This is a big club, the full time staff is about 60 persons. It's premises are open around the year and always busy from the morning coffee till after dinner. Copa del Rey undoubtedly is their main event, but one of the many they organise. The club has a very popular...

Good breeze in the bay, looks like to settle on 18 knots early. Coastal Day, bit of work in the morning to get the Code-0 kit on board.Splendid conditions for a fast ride up / down / zig / zag the bay. Score 5 is the gate, score 6 is the finish of the coastal. Amazing...

Two WL races, good breeze, blistering sun. Provisional results Day 1:  Race1, 2, total score 1    PLATOON                      1.00     3.00     4.00 2    BRIBON                          5.00     1.00     6.00 3    MATADOR                     3.00     4.00     7.00...

Not enough breeze to fill our sails on final day of AUDI MedCup Event no 4. So final results Breitling Cup are: QUANTUM             32MATADOR             46PLATOON              52ARTEMIS                54MEAN MACHINE  66 AUDI MEDCUP Overall:QUANTUM            ...

12:58:35     There is little pressure on time today and so the race officers are happy to continue the delay to allow the Embat sea breeze to become more established. At the moment they have about 5.5 knots in the start area, while up the course, near the windward...

Little breeze, nasty chop, a magical mystery tour day........ 14:50:25     So it looked like playing the shifts up the middle of the beat was the key there, Quantum first, Valars second, Platoon third, Desafio fourth, ONO fifth. Mean Machine caught a cold out on the...

Sea breeze, known locally as the Embat, is blowing nicely at 215-220 degrees and blowing at 10-12 knots. Look up the course and we can see darker water, and a few white horses on the course area.     Race 4 13:41:18     Rounding order leeward mark is Mean Machine,...

Race 1: 14:38:06     So Mean Machine win the first race of the Breitling Regatta, moving well in these relatively gentle conditions, leading round the first mark, second was Mutua Madrilena, Matador, Artemis, Bribon, Tau Ceramica Andalucia, Platoon, Cristabella and...

But strong finish of Numbers  sees RAN ex equo to second place. Well done RAN. TP52Entries: 6      Races Sailed: 8         Sail No          Boat                      Owner                         Points  (1 Discard)  1    GBR528R     RAN                       Niklas...

TP52 Cam sinks during X Trophy S.M. Reina-Copa. The leader during the three days of competition, "TAU Andalusia" of Jose "Pichu" Torcida has finally captured the Trophy. TAU secures its first triumph in this regatta and this class since 2005. The sad note of the event...

The best spot in Bremerhafen has been taken by the new Judel Vrolijk office. Somehow on this historical place, that in the 12th century housed a real castle and is situated right on the beach and alongside the entrance to the old harbour of Bremerhafen, the third...

Congratulations Quantum! Nail biting finish in last race of the day and of the Cagliari event. Mean Machine close to  the overall victory half way through the race. But Terry Hutchinson and co fought back to secure a 2 point margin and a first win for the Quantum...

Only one race today, winds gusting well over 30 knots and there is plenty nylon ending up where it isnot designed for.Some do better than others though, Artemis makes it look like a walk in the park. Account of the final run: 14:06:22     But Desafio broach out of...

Coastals can be really good fun, but as they are scored at a midway gate and at the finish, a poor start or first beat can easily be the beginning of a tough day. This one is sailed at the lightest breeze we have seen sofar in Cagliari, around 10 knots and again the...

Race 4 Cagliari Event 13:58:57     It is Quantum's race as the fleet come to the finish line of race 4. Mean Machine gybe right and splits away. There is a little battle going on between Bribon and Mutua Madrileña, the breeze has come down the left-hand side, Bribon...

Mean Machine takes Day 1 of the Cagliari Event with two firsts and a fourth. Undoubtedly after some soul scratching since Marseille this must come as a big relief. Mean Machine once more up front. © Ian Roman/AUDI MEDCUP. Italy, Sardinia, Cagliari. 1/7/08 Race 1:...

Never a dull moment when racing a TP52. Today the practice race of the Sardinian Cagliari event.Conditions look to be medium wind, flat water, sun. Rusal Synergy have snapped up USA 17 and will be trying to come to grips with their new boat. Caixa, still not fully...

The next stop for the TP52 Audi MedCup fleet is Cagliari, June 30 - July 5. Cagliari is famous in sailing terms because of its reliable winds, a luxury in the Mediterranean.    Cagliari is the capital of the Italian province and island of Sardinia. Cagliari, like the...

Porto Cervo, Italy. 21st June 2008. The Sardinia Rolex Cup, organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, came to a close today after a long wait for a breeze which did not materialize. The Race Committee waited until the final time limit of 3 p.m. before admitting...

Porto Cervo, Italy. 20th June 2008. Team Spain once again excelled at the Sardinia Rolex Cup organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda with Pedro Campos taking victory in all three of today’s races at the helm of the TP52 Bribon Telefonica. The overall combined...

Porto Cervo, Italy. 19th June. The duel between teams Spain and Italy is heating up as Spain sits in first place just one point ahead of home-team Italy after today’s distance race in the Sardinia Rolex Cup organized by the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda. The Race...

Only one race today, very light conditions, WL 1.8 mile distance. Platoon, Valars, Bribon-Telefonica, Rusal, Audi Q8 is finish order TP52's. Team Germany (1,3,1) lead overall, then Spain (3,1,3) and third Southern Europe (2,2,5) Italy in 4th place, must have been...

Harm, Jochen, Swifty and the others cheering on Germany in their win over Austria the evening before the start of the Sardinia Cup.Jochen won the pool, taking 5 Euro from each crewmember. A good start, but it was soon lost in the Clipper Bar.

USA-17, the American boat owned by Larry Ellison (USA) and skippered by 3 times America’s Cup winner Russell Coutts (NZL), the current MedCup Circuit champion skipper, won on her first and only outing planned for the 2008 series. The brand new all white TP52 missed...

No straightforward sailing today, winds between 15 and 30 knots, 20 degree shifts, rainclouds, waves from many directions...... Let's see what the best brains.... and instincts... of  todays sailing world make of this. This is the finishing leg of Race 1: 13:56:50   ...