Over the next few weeks, a good buddy of mine will be posting on this blog. Paul Andrepont used to work for the family back in the day and is quite a good sailor. Paul now lives out in Seattle where he has been sailing with the Buchan Racing team on various racers named Glory. In the last 18 months Team Glory has been involved in some really cool racing. The owner bought Yassou the NM Transpac 52 and totally modified it to make it competitive with the new boats. Glory sailed the 2006 Transpac 52 Intergalactics and finished quite well considering age of the boat and the relative lack of big boat experience.
Glory then chartered another TP 52 for an event in the med last summer and at that point the owner John Buchan decided to build a new boat for the 2007 season. They quickly settle on JV and built the 3rd boat out of the Mean Machine Mold at Hakes Marine. Mean Machine for those who do not know won the entire MEDCUP season last year!
Anyway the team is quite serious about making a run at the MEDCUP this season and in doing so have crossed trained in the MUMM 30 fleet, sailing the Worlds and also in the Farr 40, having bought the former Mean Machine Farr 40.
They have built a beautiful new TP 52 that is about to make her debut at the Palma Vela regatta over the next couple weeks. Paul will be doing some blogging from the event on the trials and tribulations of ramping up a brand new TP 52 against some of the top finishers last season. Looking at the entry list, I see Mean Machine will be there so they will have their full.
Team Glory are a bunch of good dudes and are putting a full 100% effort into winning the 2007 MEDCUP. I look forward to reading what Paul has to say as much as the rest of you.
Good luck to Glory for the 2007 Season.
Cheers
Tac
1 comment:
As you can see above, I had a couple facts wrong, not all that unusal for me! Talking out my ass sometimes comes easily :)
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