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TP 52 World Championship

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:03:00 +0200

By Paul Cayard: TP52 Pre-Worlds
Lot of new words up there at the top. The TP 52 fleet is racing in the Trofeo Cesar Manrique here in Lanzarote for three days as a tune up for the TP 52 World Championship which will start on Monday.

Lanzarote is in the Canary Islands, in fact, I believe it is the Eastern most island. The conditions are fairly tropical and throughout most of the summer the trade winds off the Southeastern side of the Azores are in place and this is a great place to sail or windsurf, kite-surf etc. Usually, it is fairly breezy with very consistent winds.

Today was our first day sailing here onboard El Desafio and it was the first day of racing in the Trofeo Cesar Manrique. There are a couple of other events going here at the moment, the ORC IMS 670 World Championship, the GP 42 Circuit and then the TP 52s are here as well. I mean, it must be the center of the sailing universe this week!

Getting on with it, El Desafio had its best day of racing this year. We had a 1,4,1 for 6 points and a 5 point lead over 2nd place Platoon of Germany. The conditions were 15-18 knots but rather shifty, sometimes from 030 and sometimes from 070. There was a convergence line of cloud directly over the race course and depending on which way the line swung, you had either the right handed wind or the left. This line of cloud was streaming off of a large volcano at the North end of the island and oscillating like a garden hose turned on with no nozzle on it. Well, not quite that violent but you get what I mean.

If it stays like this is will make for stressful days for the tacticians.

We obviously had some good luck today and got all systems functioning well at the same time. We have had moments of excellence this year but have never managed to string several days together to win a regatta. So we are hoping to put it all together here. Of course, it is next week that counts not this week.

A couple of our most formidable foes were not on the course today including Quantum and Artemis. They are here but training on their own. So 10 of the TP 52s did battle today and the results can be found at www.trofeopuertocalero.com/ultimanoticia.php

Forecast for tomorrow is similar to today. Temperature 25C, winds 15-18 knots from the NE.

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Team NZ builds TP 52 for Audi MedCup

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:23:00 +0200

Team New Zealand sailors and ex-Team New Zealand sailors have been at the forefront of the MedCup Circuit
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Quantum Racing Win Portugal Trophy To Score Overall Victory In 2008 Audi MedCup Circuit

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:19:00 +0200

Skipper Terry HUTCHINSON and the crew of Quantum Racing added the Portugal Trophy to the regatta wins in Mallorca and Sardinia which contributed to their overall victory in the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008.
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MedCup Circuit 2008 Completed

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:06:05 +0200

Terry Hutchinson and the crew of the American boat Quantum Racing won the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008 with a day to spare in Portimao, Portugal when only one race could be completed on the penultimate day of the Portugal Trophy Regatta. As the breeze fell away to force the abandonment of the second race on Friday, Race 7, and then precluded any further competition it meant Quantum Racing had
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Audi MedCup Circuit 2008: Prizegiving

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:08:29 +0200

Terry Hutchinson and the crew of Quantum Racing (USA) were tonight crowned 2008 Audi MedCup Circuit champions at the glittering prize giving in Portimao, Portugal Skipper Hutchinson said: "It is just over the top. This rivals the feeling we ...
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Quantum Racing win Portugal Trophy of Audi MedCup

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:51:00 +0200

Quantum Racing win Portugal Trophy, Audi MedCup series.
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Audi MedCup - A full Quantum Quota: Quantum Racing win Portugal Trophy.

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:27:00 +0200

Crew of "QUANTUM RACING" (USA) , celebrating overall victory of Audi MedCup 2008.© Th.Martinez/AUDI MEDCUP. Portugal, Portimão. 20/09/08.

[Source: Event Media]
Terry Hutchinson and the crew of Quantum Racing today added the Portugal Trophy to the regatta wins in Mallorca and Sardinia which contributed to their overall victory in the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008.

After winning the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008 title with a day to spare, Quantum Racing added victory in the Trophy of Portugal to cap their triumphant five months long season over which they won three of the six Audi MedCup Circuit regattas.

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 over each of the three previous years, Quantum Racing won in Cagliari on Sardinia in Italy, at the Breitling Regatta on Mallorca, Spain and now in Portimao on Portugal’s Algarve coast.

As well as their three regatta wins Quantum Racing finished third at the first regatta of the season in Alicante. Fifth in Marseille in June was acall to raise their game, according to Hutchinson, and their fourth place last month in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain was enough to keep them firmly on course for the championship title they clinched yesterday.

A first and a fourth placed today for Quantum Racing pushed them to the top of the overall Portugal Trophy standings, winning by four points from Matador (ARG) who were let down by a disappointing 11th in the first race. Read Full Story

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Audi MedCup: Comments on the final event

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:21:04 +0200

Ignasi Triay (ESP), Project manager of Bribón (ESP), second overall on the Circuit: “We have had six events with several that were very windy, so the season has been a bit of a marathon, but as we have enjoyed ...
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Audi MedCup: Terry Hutchinson talks about a full Quantum quota

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:17:29 +0200

Terry Hutchinson and the crew of Quantum Racing today added the Portugal Trophy to the regatta wins in Mallorca and Sardinia which contributed to their overall victory in the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008. After winning the Audi MedCup Circuit ...
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Audi MedCup: Desafio could not have had a much worse day today, says Paul Cayard

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:44:04 +0200

An 8th and a last dropped us to 6th overall. The wind was light all day. We did not get off the line well in either race. In the first one, we made a nice come back to round ...
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Audi MedCup: Personal thoughts and opinions of Terry Hutchinson, helmsman of Quantum

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:04:35 +0200

The Quantum team idea started about this time last year, I was still working for ETNZ and we were hatching a plan to keep the team together to train for the next America’s Cup, When we went our separate ...
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Audi MedCup: Win for Roemmers Matador team would be the perfect sign off

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:03:02 +0200

Holding a lead of four points in the Trophy of Portugal regatta Alberto Roemmers’ Matador go on the water for what is planned to be a three race day to bring the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008 to a close. ...
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Audi MedCup: Paul Cayard ponders on decision to abandon last race

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 10:08:29 +0200

One race today as the wind died in the second race and it was abandoned on the last windward leg. In the first race, with the wind 11 knots from 125, we had a decent start about halfway down ...
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Quantum Racing wins Audi MedCup Circuit title

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:45:00 +0200

Quantum Racing crew came ashore today at the Marina of Portimao having secured the overall Audi MedCup Circuit title
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MedCup Portugal

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:14:44 +0200

Without leaving the dock in Marina Portimao Quantum Racing took a big step closer to the endgame, winning the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008, when the double points Coastal Race was cancelled due to the lack of wind. Basic arithmetic, conventional logic and the wind as per current forecast for the final two days of the season points to a maximum of 75 points to be scored, completing each of a
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Audi MedCup, Portugal - Day 3

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:00:00 +0200

[source: Event Media]
No wind, Coastal race cancelled in Portimao, Portugal.

Without leaving the dock in Marina Portimao Quantum Racing took a big step closer to the endgame, winning the Audi MedCup Circuit 2008, when the double points Coastal Race was cancelled due to the lack of wind. Audi MedCup
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Audi MedCup: Cancelled coastal race makes Quantum Racing almost impossible to overtake

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:00:15 +0200

Audi MedCup - Coastal race cancelled in Portimao

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:59:00 +0200

Without leaving the dock in Marina Portimao Quantum Racing took a big step closer to winning the Audi MedCup Circuit
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Audi MedCup: Personal thoughts and opinions Luis Doreste tactician of TAU Ceramica-Andalucia

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:13:52 +0200

I did the first regatta this year in Alicante with CAM, and was delighted to now be offered to do the Trophy of Portugal with Tau Cerámica-Andalucía. I was sailing with the team for a few years, have always ...
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Audi MedCup: Paul Cayard on Desafio win in Portimao

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:14:43 +0200

A very good day for Desafio today and we took over the lead. It was as much that Quantum and Audi Q8 had bad days as it was that we had a good one. A 7, 3 isn't bad ...
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