Quantum Racing with Terry Hutchinson on the helm won the TP52 World Championship and Artemis finishes fourth losing the tie breaker with Synergy for 3rd. One race was held today in 8-10 knots from the East Northeast. Artemis had a decent start and played the shifts well to round the first mark 3rd. ALL4ONE, Synergy […]

Not a good day for Artemis today. In moderate winds but very choppy seas, we finished 6th while Matador won easily. We had a good battle with Quantum all the way around the track, they were always just in front of us, tacking on us as much as they could but we held close and […]

A good start to the Championship for Artemis today with a 3, 5, 2. We had to wait for a while this morning for the Southeasterly seabreeze to fill in but when it came in, it built nicely up to 17 knots in the second and third races. The race course just North of the […]

One race was held today in Cagliari for the TP 52 fleet. The Mistral was in at 25-28 knots and there was plenty of action. On Artemis we had another good race finishing 4th, overlapped with Emirates Team New Zealand who just beat us. Matador had been leading the race at the second windward mark […]

A good day for Artemis today. Once again the coastal race proved to be to our liking as we finished a very credible 3rd. The course zigzagged us across Cagliari Bay in 11-13 knots of wind from the South. Matador got off to a good start just to windward of us and we were 1, […]

Today was the first day of the Audi Med Cup-Cagliari. Three races were held in 8-18 knots for the ten boat fleet of TP52s. Onboard Artemis our first and second races were good with a 3,6 and we were 2nd overall at that point. Then a bad start and going the wrong way on the […]

It was a long day in a strong breeze, so we are all a bit tired. In 18-23 knot East Northeasterlies, we raced a windward leeward race and followed that up with a two mile coastal race. Artemis had a good day with a 6, 2 although we did not sail smoothly and made plenty […]

No wind. Plenty of heat. We’ll try again tomorrow. www.medcup.org Paul

The TP 52 fleet is back in action, this time in Cartegena, Spain. It is very hot here with temperatures right around 100F and with no wind until 1430 today, it was all about boom tents prior to the official practice race. We had the standard two practice starts followed by a race in 7-9 […]

Another very solid day today for Artemis! We won! The breeze was late to fill so we knew it would be just one race. We knew it was a “who beats who” with Emirates Team New Zealand as they were just one point behind us. It was for all the marbles. In the pre-start there […]

Barcelona Another solid day for Artemis with scores of 5, 2, 4. The boats is going well and despite being over the start line early in race one, we were very competive all day. The winds were 12-14 from the southwest. In the first two races a big line of cloud came in and the […]

Barcelona 11 TP-52’s are here in Barcelona and were ready to get the first race of this series underway today. Unfortunately, the wind wasn’t so no races were held. The forecast for tomorrow is a bit better so we are hopeful. For more information go to www.medcup.org Paul

No race today. The Mistral is in and looks set to stay tomorrow too. The start time for tomorrow has been brought forward to 1100 to give us a chance but in reality, the forecast makes it very unlikely that we will race again here. 30-45 knots tomorrow with 2-3 meter waves.

Marseille Today we had the coastal race. The course was beautiful, taking the fleet around several islands and down along the coast eastwards to a city called Cassis. On Artemis we did not do much better than we have been doing all week. We finished 8th after blowing up 2 spinnakers during the race. We […]

Tough day for Artemis in the light winds of Marseille. We did not have good speed upwind or downwind in the sloppy seaway. With scores of 7, 10, 9 we are firmly in control of last place. In fact in the second race we will probably get another point of penalty for racing with a […]