Monday, April 28, 2008

TP52 all over the place...


'New TP52 Mutua Madrilena arrives in Valencia - photo Audi Medcup'
The new Mutua Madrilena arrived in Valencia this week amidst a growing flurry of TP52 activity.
Vascotto and the Mutua Madrileña team are back and mean business, changing from Botin & Carkeek, who designed their 2005 winner Pisco Sour and their 2007 Mutua Madrileña, to a new Judel/Vrolijk design which has just arrived in Valencia from Italy for the final fit out and launching.

“The boat looks fantastic and we are really happy with the construction of the boat.” Vascotto confirmed from the deck of their new boat. The new boat was built at Farno on the Adriatic by Carboland which is managed by Albino Scarpone who was instrumental in the build of the last Luna Rossa America’s Cup boats.
“Obviously Rolf (Vrolijk) has designed a boat which took some of the best parts of the old Artemis which won quite easily last year but I gave him plenty of freedom. I just asked for the fastest boat in the fleet!” Vascotto suggests.

“I don’t think that there will be much difference between the boats. This is the fourth year and so the difference between one generation of boats and the next gets smaller all the time, and the so the gap becomes always smaller. But for sure Rolf has tried to improve still further the construction of the boats and the ideas he has had last year are maybe made a little more extreme this year.” - http://2008.medcup.org/news/