Ocean Racing Magazine - #5 - October & November 2007 - (Page 54)

TP 52 WHERE THE STARS SHINE The TP-52s finished their Mediterranean season in Hyères in mid September. An opportunity for us to take a look at this « box rule » with its high tech prototypes, of which there are already more than 25 around the world and ten more announced for next season… but still mot a single French boat! by some American owners, the TP 52s were originally designed for the Transpac, rare offshore races on the other side of the Atlantic and round the cans competitions in Key West or Miami… In short, the aim was to come up with a boat that was fun, fast, sailed well, and could evolve for owners, who like to be at the helm or to sail on board. The designers thus came up with a box rule, that is to say a strict framework, where the main parameters concerning speed (length, beam, weight, draught, sail area) were fixed and restrictions were applied on the type of materials that could be used for the construction. The first Transpac 52s saw the light of day in 2003 and completely satisfied the specifications of their owners: wins in corrected time in the 2003 Transpac, the Dreamt up in 2001 Bermuda Race and in Chicago-Mackinac in 2004, but also in inshore races (Miami 2003, St Francis Big Boat Series 2004, Key West 2005). It took the impetus given by the arrival of King Juan Carlos of Spain for the series to take off in Europe: since 2005, the Breitling MedCup has boosted the image of this class thanks to a Mediterranean circuit including five summer dates. Now, 27 TP 52s have been built representing fifteen nations (China, Japan, USA, Chile, Greece, Ireland, Great Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, Monaco, Italy, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Germany). Each event in the Mediterranean includes up to twelve races, including two coastal runs, with the final rankings calculated by taking into account all the races, but one bad result around the cans can be left out after ten windward-leeward races. Very strict class rules The maximum waterline length is thus 15.85 metres, the beam must be between 3.962 metres and 4.42 metres, the displacement between 7484 kg and 7711 kg, the draught is Ocean Racing - october 2007 ©Photos : D. Bourgeois

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Ocean Racing Magazine - #5 - October & November 2007

Edito
Contents
What they said
News
Portfolio
America's Cup - One Cup or two?
Jules Verne Trophy - Cammas, down to 48 days ?
Personality - Missing Fosset
Mini - Thirty years of innovations
Transat Jacques Vabre
Portrait - Lemonchois, quietly and discreetly
Barcelona World Race - Duos around the world
TP 52 - Where the stars shine
Figaro - Desjoyeaux not so alone
Trial - Sun Fast 3200
Tactics - Why the New Zealanders lost the America’s Cup
Fasnet Race
Lab
Portrait - Andrew Pindar
Fifty years ago - The Admiral’s Cup - offshore racing
Equipment
New products
Opinion

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