News in 2019
Party Time !!
The TP52 Class 20th Anniversary coming up in 2020 !!
The 20th anniversary of the TP52 Class will be celebrated in June 2020 with the creation of an invitational regatta. The AUDI TP52 20th Anniversary Invitational is open to all TP52s / IRC52s based on a TP52 history or hull mould in the world, so about a 100 boats are...
Azzurra the 2019 52 Super Series champions, Sled near perfection!!
Azzurra secured their fourth 52 SUPER SERIES championship title as they played out a dream scenario. On their own club’s waters in the north of Sardinia on the last day of the closest and most competitive season in the eight year history of the world’s leading grand...
Harm Müller Spreer and Team Platoon are the 2019 Rolex TP52 World Champions!!
Harm Müller-Spreer’s Platoon team won the Rolex TP52 World Championship title on the Bay of Palma, but the German-flagged team, led by the Hamburg-based owner-driver, on the final day did not make it easy for themselves as they had to contend with two additional...
Team Vision Future win the Copa del Rey !!
At their seventh attempt Jean Jacques Chaubard’s French team on the TP52 Team Vision Future lifted the BMW ORC Class 0 title. After winning every other major award in the Mediterranean and now having six podiums gained with their GP42 and two TP52s, today it was only...
Quantum wins Cascais, Azzurra strengthens overall position.
Quantum Racing clinched their first 52 SUPER SERIES regatta title of the 2019 season but their perennial arch-rivals Azzurra ran them close, the Italian-Argentine teams losing out by a matter of a only a couple of metres on the finish line of the last race of a windy...
Coin flips Provezza’s way in Puerto Sherry Royal Cup !!
So disappointed was Turkish owner Ergin Imre with last season’s outcome for his Provezza team on the 2018 52 SUPER SERIES that it was only when team coach John Cutler, a Kiwi Olympic bronze medallist, agreed to steer for this season that the hugely passionate owner...
First event 52 Super Series Menorca goes to Platoon!!
From the thrillingly close finish Harm Müller Spreer’s Platoon crew clinched the first regatta title of the 2019 52 SUPER SERIES season, winning the Menorca 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week by one single point this afternoon. Second placed Provezza, who lead in to the...
Strong showing TP52 fleet in PalmaVela.
With just over one week before the TP52 class starts racing on nearby Menorca for the first points races of the 2019 52 SUPER SERIES, the 16th Sail Racing PalmaVela has been an intense, no compromise warm-up for the highly competitive, very evenly matched fleet of 10...
Eight Bells – Mark Koetje.
Mark Henry Koetje (Kooch), age 61, passed away in his home on Saturday, March 2, 2019 after more than a year of fighting cancer. Mark grew up in Grand Rapids where he attended Grand Rapids Christian from where he went on to Calvin College. He grew up with many aunts,...