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Huit équipes participeront à la première saison du TF35 Trophy, avec quatre équipages suisses venant de la série des D35 et quatre nouveaux équipages prêts à rejoindre la flotte.

Huit équipes participeront à la première saison du TF35 Trophy, avec quatre équipages suisses venant de la série des D35 et quatre nouveaux équipages prêts à rejoindre la flotte. La première saison devant débuter en mai, Alinghi d'Ernesto Bertarelli, Realteam d'Esteban Garcia, Zen Too de Guy de Picciotto et Ylliam XII de Bertrand Demole - Comptoir Immobilier passeront au nouveau TF35 avec l'achèvement du D35 Trophy. Le TF35 a également attiré l'attention de la communauté de la voile professionnelle au sens large avec l'équipage de Spindrift de Dona Bertarelli et Yann Guichard, Zoulou d'Erik Maris, le Team ARTEXPLORA de Frédéric Jousset et un huitième bateau confirmé, qui sera annoncé le mois prochain et rejoindra la flotte.

Hier soir, jeudi 20 février, le TF35 a reçu le très convoité Prix de l'Innovation lors de la cérémonie des Foiling Awards à Milan, en Italie.

La Classe a reçu le prix de l'innovation pour la conception révolutionnaire du système de commande de vol entièrement automatique du TF35. Une reconnaissance spéciale et des remerciements à Luc Dubois, membre de l'équipe de conception du TF35, qui a dirigé le projet d'assistance au vol, et à Pixel sur Mer qui a développé le système avec Luc Dubois.

Over February and March 2020 each of the TF35 teams can get their hands on Boat Zero for a week of winter training in Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain. 

After two years in design and build, the next generation of foiling catamaran, the TF35 boat zero has been launched on Lake Geneva. For the very first time, Ernesto Bertarelli's team Alinghi has been able to test the new foiling machine.

"The feeling, it's like skiing in powder, it is really soft, you don't hear anything but the vibration of the foils," explains Arnaud Psarofaghis, mainsail trimmer for Alinghi.

"Strangely it feels like a big boat, everything is very quiet, very stable," adds bowman Yves Detrey.

On Saturday, 21 September, the D35 Trophy held its closing party hosted at the Société Nautique de Genève.

“It was an emotional evening,” explains class manager Bertrand Favre, “The last prize giving ceremony for the D35 Trophy after 16 very successful years marks the start of a new adventure with the TF35.”

On Tuesday, 20 August, the next generation of high performance foiling catamaran was unveiled as the TF35 splashed on Lake Geneva for its first test sail.

Compared to its predecessors, the TF35 has been designed with the ambitious brief to offer top level foiling to a wider audience of sailors. With earlier take-off speeds, guaranteed foiling upwind and down and a fully automatic flight control system, the TF35 uses the latest in foiling technology, both to improve performance and simplify high speed foiling while making it easier to race.

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Performance

Having tried out the 44Cup in Marstrand in 2018, enjoying their first full season on the high performance one design monohull circuit this year is Pavel Kuznetsov’s Tavatuy Sailing Team.

While there are at present two other Russian 44Cup teams, on board Team Nika owner Vladimir Prosikhin is one of just two Russians among the crew while on Bronenosec Sailing, there is a Kiwi tactician and Italian pitman. In comparison Tavatuy Sailing Team’s crew is 100% Russian. In the past this might have seemed to be a disadvantage, however over the years so much Russian skill and knowledge has been acquired through successful, winning campaigns such as Bronenosec Sailing and Synergy, that the pool of experienced Russian RC44 sailors today is extensive. Many of the sailors on board Tavatuy Sailing Team for example, including tactician Evgeny Neugodnikov, Russia’s leading match racing skipper, were part of the Synergy campaign. And the prospect of Tavatuy Sailing Team getting to the top of the pile soon in the 44Cup is a very real one. The team comes to the circuit having won back to back World Championship titles against international crews in the highly competitive Melges 32 class.