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The 2024 TF35 season came to a quiet close today at the Société Nautique de Genève, as calm conditions on Lake Geneva persisted for a second consecutive day, preventing any further racing.

Having raced only three regattas on the opening day of the TF35 Realstone Cup for Léman hope Guy de Picciotto's impeccable scoreline of 1-3-1 secured them their first-ever regatta victory in the TF35 class. With strong third-place finishes at TF35 Mies, the Geneve-Rolle-Geneve, and Les Voiles de Choisi last month, today's victory sees Zen TOO propelled to third place in the overall ranking for the season.

After a light but successful opening day at the TF35 Realstone Cup for  Léman hope the forecast was for more of the same on day two, with the NE'ly thermal wind forecast to kick in during the afternoon. 

But unfortunately, today, the gradient wind at a higher altitude was working against the thermal and the sailing breeze refused to blow. Despite delaying ashore until 13:00 and then the race committee and fleet holding on to the water to be ready to go should the breeze develop, finally, at 17:00, with the lake still glassy, it became too late to get any racing in.

Guy de Picciotto's Zen TOO made the best start today to the final deciding event of the 2024 TF35 season when they won the first race, took third in the second race and followed it up with another victory in the third windward-leward race.

Racing in a light but stable six-knot NE'ly Sechard wind was enough to see the TF35 high-performance catamaran foiling up and downwind. Still, the featherlight breeze put a premium on the skill of the crews boat handling and their ability to sail clean and out of trouble. In both the first and third races, Zen TOO started well mid-line, sailed conservable, tacking off early and taking a more central line up the first beat, and extended downwind to creep into the lead by the second windward gate.

The stage is set for a TF35 showdown as the high-performance foiling catamaran tour wraps up at the prestigious Société Nautique de Genève on Lake Geneva. The final event, hosted by Realstone to raise awareness for sailing cancer charity Léman Hope, promises a thrilling conclusion with the overall rankings tied across the fleet.

After a win at last month’s TF35 Voiles de Choisi, Esteban Garcia’s Realteam Sailing, led by skipper Jérôme Clerc, has surged into first place. However, their position at the top is far from secure, as they are tied on points with Yann Guichard’s Sails of Change 8. The final showdown will determine who takes home the season title.

Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing skippers by Jérôme Clerc with tactician Sébastien Col have won the single race final day of the TF35 Voiles de Choisi, winning the event with a five-point advantage over Yann Guichard's Sails of Change 8.

With no wind on day two, the race committee led by PRO Benoit Deutsch was keen to get some racing in on Lake Geneva for today's final. At the morning skipper's briefing, the forecast looked promising, similar to day one, with the thermal Séchard breeze kicking in in the afternoon and the best racing near Nyon. So, the race committee went out to monitor the situation.

At the 10am briefing, the forecast for day two of the TF35 Les Voiles de Choisi promised a repeat of day one:  no wind in the morning but a nice thermal breeze in the afternoon.

But as the hours passed and the sailors enjoyed breakfast at the Villa Choisi and then a game of Spikeball  over lunch, the wind remained illusive and the lake mirror flat. Perfect for swimming but less so for sailing.

With two clean victories followed by a second and third on the first day of racing at the Les Voiles de Choisi, skipper Jérôme Clerc and tactician Sébastien Col showed why Realteam Sailing are two times TF35 tour champions.

As is typical on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, the day started slowly with the bright sun glistening off the glassy windless lake. At the skipper's briefing, the crew welcomed the call to hold ashore in the stunning grounds of Villa Choisi to see if the thermal wind would fill in. At 1400, the decision was made to head towards Nyon for a possible start, and a modest 8 - 10 knot breeze filled in, allowing four races to be sailed.

After a two-month summer break, the TF35 fleet is ready to race again on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for the fifth event of the 2024 season, the Les Voiles de Choisi.  

Hosted by the Société Nautique Rolloise, the event will be held on the grounds of the Villa Choisi estate from 30 August to 1 September when the six TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamarans will need to pick up from where they left off back in June when Sails of Change 8 won the 85th Bol d'Or Mirabaud.

Sails of Change 8 have proved themselves as masters of the long-distance race in a TF35, today winning the 85th Bol d'Or Mirabaud in 6h22m24s after winning the Geneve-Rolle-Geneve last weekend.

"I'm thrilled to have won this race. It's my third Bol d'Or Mirabaud, and our racing team's fifth in fourteen editions, so it's great," said helm Yann Guichard. "It was a great race, fast, strategic and intense. We fought until the last minute. We've won the Bol d'Or and the Geneve-Rolle; it's a full house and a good feeling."

Tomorrow, Saturday 15 June, at 10:00 CET the TF35 fleet will join 409 boats lining up on the startline for the 85th edition of the Bol d'Or Mirabaud hosted by the Société Nautique de Genève.

The forecast for this year's edition of the world's largest inland lake regatta is for a southwesterly 12 - 15 knot breeze to start the day, building to 20 knots by the late afternoon.

Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing, helmed by Jérôme Clerc, was the top-scoring boat on a testing day of shifting, light breezes on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for the final of the TF35 Mies. The defending champions sailed to first, third, and second, while closest rivals Sails of Change 8 were caught mid-pack in fourth on the final two races, putting them into second overall.

"It was a very intense weekend with the fleet getting increasingly close," admitted Clerc, looking happy on the dock after racing. "I'm proud of the team's work this weekend. It was a tough battle with Sails of Change 8, but we found the small points where we could improve our coordination and speed to win."

After 04h 41m 02s, Yann Guichard and his Sails of Change 8 crew consisting of tactician Noé Delpech, trimmers François Morvan and Bruno Mourniac, bowman Adrien Mestre, and grinder Solune Robert, mastered the delicate breeze on Lake Geneva to win the 60th edition of the Genève-Rolle-Genève in the final moments of the race.

"The whole battle is a constant game of contact, where you make three good moves and then one bad one and lose it all again," said tactician Delpech. "Sure, it's not easy, but the game is great, and we've had a blast in this super-dense, super-tight battle between boats."

 It was a solid opening day for the TF35 Mies, the second event of the 2024 tour, with four different race winners over the five races sailed and every boat in the fleet hitting the podiumed in at least one race. Topping the overnight leaderboard, Realteam Sailing's helm, Jérôme Clerc, and tactician Sébastien Col made the best start  with two victories and two seconds.

"Great conditions today. Five superb heats, very tight, and increasingly close at the end of the day, with crossings everywhere at the gates," explained Realteam Sailing's mainsail trimmer Jeremy Bachelin. 

The second and third rounds of the 2024 TF35 Trophy will take place this weekend on Lake Geneva. Two days of windward-leeward racing will be held on either side of Saturday's Genève-Rolle-Genève long-distance race.  

On Friday 7th and Sunday 9th June the fleet will be racing in the typical windward leeward format for the TF35 Mies Cup hosted at the Mies boatyard, with the support of the Club Nautique de Versoix.

With a new boat and an all-new crew, Yann Guichard's Sails of Change 8 clinched the first victory of the 2024 TF35 season in a to-the-wire final race at the TF35 Nyon Cup. 

As the sun shone brightly on a sparkling Lake Geneva in Switzerland, the final day of the TF35 Nyon Cup began with a delayed start as the race committee waited for the 8-10 knot northerly breeze to fill in. Coming into the final day, at the top of the leaderboard, Realteam Sailing held a four-point lead over Sails of Change 8, who, in turn, were just two points ahead of Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier. Although the points were tight, the podium felt stable. 

Day two of the TF35 Nyon Cup started with a beautiful but glassy still morning on Lake Geneva. At the 10:00 skippers briefing, PRO Benoit Deutsch delayed the teams ashore, hoping for a repeat of the previous day's afternoon wind. The TF35 fleet remained poised at Société Nautique de Nyon, but it was not until 14:30 that the boats were called onto the water for a start. Unfortunately, the wind didn't materialise enough to make this happen, and the Race Committee finally got the first of three races going at 16:30 in a delicate six-knot breeze. 

Of the three races sailed in the late afternoon, the defending tour champions Realteam Sailing kept their TF35 moving well upwind and downwind, securing victories in the first and third races of the day. A third place in the second race meant that Jérôme Clerc and his crew were the only ones to survive the day without a deep result, putting them top the overnight leaderboard with a four-point lead.

After three good races today on Lake Geneva – each with a different winner - Realteam Sailing leads the TF35 Nyon Cup after day one but only on tie break ahead of Yann Guichard's new boat and new crew onboard Sails of Change 8.

Still early in the sailing season for Switzerland, unpredictable weather conditions on Lake Geneva were expected ahead of this week's TF35 Nyon Cup. With moderate cloud cover this morning, the teams were held ashore under AP in the hope that a light northeasterly breeze would fill in from lunchtime. As the grey sky gave way to the sun and a six-knot breeze built to 12 knots throughout the afternoon, the race committee got three fast, foiling races in before a storm cloud abruptly ended the day. 

The hotly anticipated start of the fourth TF35 season kicks off tomorrow, Friday, 24 May, with the TF35 Nyon Cup hosted by Société Nautique de Nyon in Switzerland. 

This, the first event of the six-stop tour of Lake Geneva, will be the first time the six TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamarans have raced together since the spring upgrade of the flight control system, which will further improve boat stability and narrow the playing field for the crews.

After a long winter break, racing for the TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamaran resumes this week with a new team joining the fleet and crew changes on all the boats ahead of the TF35 Nyon Cup. The first of a six-event series raced on Lake Geneva in Switzerland. 

Eight months ago, season three for the TF35 concluded in Malcesine, on Lake Garda, in Italy. Throughout the 2023 season, Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing was an exceptional force, winning all seven events. For 2024, skipper Jérôme Clerc and tactician Sébastien Col's biggest challenge will be to keep the momentum: "This year's objective for Realteam Sailing is even more difficult. When you win everything, the bar is set high, and you can only do worse," Clerc points out. 

The fourth season of the TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamaran will kick off this month in Nyon, Switzerland, with the first of six events on Lake Geneva.

Hosted by the Société Nautique de Nyon from 24 to 26 May, the TF35 Nyon Cup will be the first chance for the teams to compete against each other since Malcesine in September 2023. Over the long winter period, the crews have been working hard developing the boat as class manager Bertrand Favre explains: "We spent the winter updating the flight control system. The first tests this spring have shown improved stability and boat behaviour at all points of sail, even in rough conditions, which was the objective".

In an impressive show of skill, skipper Jérôme Clerc, tactician Sébastien Col and the crew of Realteam Sailing have clinched the sixth and final event victory of the 2023 TF35 season and the overall season title.

After picking up trophies and the winners Omega Seamaster Professional Diver 300M watch, a jubilant Jérôme Clerc explained: "What a fantastic year for Realteam. We won every event this season, but it was tough on the water. We fought with Spindrift and  Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier for every place. We wanted to finish the year on a high, and we managed it, but just in the final races.

After a day in which Lake Garda offered up a strengthening Ora breeze and beautiful autumn sunshine, the battle lines have been drawn for tomorrow's final day of racing for the 2023 TF35 Trophy season. With four teams tied on points, it couldn't be closer.

In the overnight ranking, Jérôme Clerc's Realteam Sailing has taken the lead on countback ahead of Yann Guichard's almost equally consistent Spindrift. Alinghi Red Bull Racing are up to third by a single point over Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier and ZEN Too, tied on points behind. 

After a slow start yesterday, Lake Garda delivered an afternoon of technical racing for the six TF35 teams in a southerly Ora breeze ranging from 7 - 14 knots. On a day where it seemed all too easy to pair a good result to a bad one, it is Yann Guichard's Spindrift who has risen to the top of the overnight leaderboard by a single point from Realteam Sailing at this midpoint of the regatta.

"It was pretty heavy on crew work and decision-making today," explained Ylliam 17 tactician Torvar Mirsky. "Eight knots is the tipping-point for if we foil upwind or not. Because the wind was stronger on the left side of the course by the time we had decided, or by the time the wind had changed on the lake, we were on the back foot."

The final event of the 2023 TF35 season opened today in Malcesnie, Italy, with two practice races and one official race, sailed in a modest 6 - 10 knot Ora breeze.

In the single point-scoring race sailed today before the breeze died and the thunder started to rumble, it was Guy de Picciotto's ZEN Too who had the best start at the right end of the line and sailed smoothly and confidently to lead the first race down to the leeward gate, chased by Alinghi Red Bull Racing and Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier.

Tomorrow, the TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamaranswill go head-to-head for the final event of the 2023 season. 

Hosted once again by the excellent team at Fraglia Vela Malcesine and racing against the stunning backdrop of the Mount Baldo mountain range on Lake Garda, the six teams will pick up where they left off just two weeks ago for the seventh and final event of the season. 

With only two races sailed due to light winds on the final day of the TF35 Malcesine Cup 1, Realteam Sailing, skippered by Jérôme Clerc, who have been victorious every regatta of the 2023 season, claim the annual TF35 Trophy with one event remaining.

"It's been an incredible four days of Grand Prix racing. I think we've done a total of 12 races, going head-to-head with Spindrift until the last race. It was like a cat-and-mouse game; the lead kept shifting between us. But we managed to make the difference on the final run thanks to our great team. We didn't give up, even though the first race of the day was difficult. I'm really proud of what we have achieved", said a thrilled Clerc on the dock.

Day three of the TF35 Malcesine Cup 1 saw an intensifying rivalry between Yann Guichard's Spindrift and Jérôme Clerc's Realteam Sailing, as both teams claimed two victories each in a full-on, four-heat afternoon.

Following a brief delay ashore, waiting for the southerly Ora breeze to strengthen, the TF35 racing got underway at 1400CET with wind speeds ranging from 10 to 14 knots.

After conceding two race wins to Realteam Sailing yesterday, Yann Guichard and the young crew on Spindrift, headed up by tactician Yann Jauvin, bounced back with full force today, winning three out of a possible four races sailed.

In each, the fleet was compact on the race course, with the top four boats all coming into the mark roundings within seconds of each other: "We had some battles with Spindrift," explained Realteam Sailing's tactician Sébastien Col. "I think we can be a little bit faster upwind. We've seen a few things from the others like Spindrift and Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier, who appear to have better speed than us and seem more stable. That's our focus for tomorrow."

It was a classic day of Lake Garda racing for the opening of the TF35 Malcesine Cup today, featuring two practice races followed by two official points-scoring races sailed in a 15-knot Ora breeze.

In Race 1, the current tour leaders, Realteam Sailing, executed a textbook start crossing the line in clean air and on foils as the horn sounded. Up the first beat, their speed was matched perfectly by closest rivals, Spindrift, allowing Yann Guichard and his crew to secure the inside track and nose ahead of Realteam. In the chasing fleet, the new team Ylliam 17 emerged early to round the gate in third. After recovering from a poor start by going port off the line, ZEN Too managed to cross ahead of the fleet and rounded the first gate in fourth.

The TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamaran racing will resume this week in one of the circuit’s favourite venues. Malcesine, on the beautiful shores of Lake Garda, in northern Italy, will host the final two TF35 events of the 2023 season.

Returning for a second year thanks to the support of the local team at Fraglia Vela Malcesine the venue is perfect for the TF35 as it offers flat water with the moderate to strong “Ora” breeze that blows from the south in the afternoon – the ideal scenario for racing foiling catamarans at top speed. 

After a summer break since late June, the 2023 season for the TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamaran resumes next week with the first of two events hosted by Fraglia Vela Malcesine on the beautiful shores of Lake Garda, Italy, from 31 August - 1 September.

A revered venue for all high-performance yachts, Lake Garda, is one of the world's best venues for high-speed foiling catamaran action, offering the opportunity to sail in perfect 15-20 knots – flat water, ideal for exhilarating TF35 competition against the spectacular mountainous backdrop

Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing, led by helmsman Jérôme Clerc, emerged triumphant at the thrilling final day of the TF35 Nyon Cup. Impressively, this marks their fourth consecutive event win, for the seemingly unstoppable Swiss team.

"What's great is that the level of the fleet is really increasing," explained Clerc on the dock after racing. "All the teams are making progress, and even if we look dominant, it's really tight. All the boats can perform, it's great fun to play, and it pushes us to keep improving to keep up. This Grand Prix was particularly tactical, not just technical; you had to play the pressure game, it was quite open."

Lake Geneva turned up the volume for day three of the TF35 Nyon Cup with 100 km/h gusts recorded at La Dôle, in the Jura mountain range overlooking the lake, by the time of the 10.00CET skippers briefing.

At lake level, the wind was hitting 22 knots, and the waves were beginning to build, so the teams were held ashore whilst the race committee monitored the situation incase things improved for the afternoon.

Day two of the TF35 Nyon Cup, and in contrast to racing being cancelled at the morning briefing yesterday due to thunderstorms, today the TF35s enjoyed a cracking day of light-airs racing in the sunshine, with Realteam Sailing emerging as top boat.

With the breeze between seven and ten knots, this was a day when good starts and the strategic decision of whether to foil was key to success in the cutting-edge catamarans.

The TF35 Nyon Cup was due to get underway today under overcast and stormy skies. However at the 11:30 skippers briefing at the Société Nautique de Nyon it was announced that a weather waning was in place and the day would have to be cancelled.

"We're expecting an turbulent storm situation according to Météo Suisse," explains Erwan Israel, tactician on board Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier. "We already saw a few storms yesterday. Today, we've got warm air coming in from the south. Thunderstorms are already brewing in France at the moment and they're going to arrive here with potentially very violent squalls. There are strong winds aloft, with gusts of up to 100km/h expected. The police are warning people to be careful and recommending that they do not take part in any outdoor activities, so cancelling the day is the only possible solution for today.

The fifth stop of the TF35 2023 season is about to get underway in Nyon from 22 to 25 June hosted by the the Société Nautique de Nyon.

Set against the backdrop of the picturesque Swiss town, with its castle overlooking the lake and mountains in the distance, six TF35 teams will compete over four days for the TF35 Nyon Cup.

After 17h 34m 28s of racing in an almost non-existent breeze, the TF35 race within the 84th edition of the Bol d'Or Mirabaud came down to an intense duel at 3 am between Alinghi Red Bull Racing and Realteam Sailing, with Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing, with Jérôme Clerc at the helm, emerging triumphant.

From the outset, the forecast was marginal, with the best-case scenario predicting 8 knots of wind and the worst-case scenario indicating just 2 knots. So when the TF35 fleet lined up alongside the 421 other crews to drift across the startline in a meagre 2-knot breeze, it set the tone for the day.

Tomorrow (Saturday, June 10) morning at 10 am, the starting gun will sound from Société Nautique de Genève for the 84th edition of the Bol d'Or Mirabaud, the world's largest inland lake regatta.

Participating alongside the 421 other registered crews will be the TF35 fleet on the 123-kilometre (66.5 nautical miles) course from Geneva to Le Bouveret and back.

After two days of good racing, Lake Geneva was in a lighter mode for today's final, with the temperamental southwesterly Joran wind failing to reach more than 5 knots all morning due to an impending storm forming. 

When the wind finally reached a relatively stable 10-knots at 15:00 CET, the race committee was able to squeeze in two solid races: the first won by Bertrand Demole's Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier and the second won by Realteam Sailing, putting them on tied points.

After 4h 38m of racing, the 2023 Geneve-Rolle-Geneve came down to a high-speed sprint to the finish line, with Bertrand Demole at the helm of Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier, taking the win.

The long-distance race, a prologue to the renowned Bol d'Or Mirabaud, started at 13:00CET with over 200 other boats on the line. Among the TF35 fleet, ZEN Too had the best start at the pin end of the line and took an early lead. In 7-8 knots of northeasterly breeze, Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier and Ylliam 17 started on foils but quickly dropped into low mode to gain better pointing ability and match the rest of the fleet as they made their way upwind. 

Despite the light and shifty breeze forecast this morning for the opening day of the Realstone Cup for Leman hope, three, far from straightforward, races were sailed, resulting in three different race winners.

During this morning's skippers briefing, the TF35 teamsprepared themselves for a long day under brilliant sunshine on Lake Geneva. "The lake is the lake, so we knew what to expect," explained Billy Besson from Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier. "The TF35 is specifically designed for these conditions, so there is a lot of sail onboard, allowing us to race when most other boats wouldn't be able to".

For the second event of the 2023 TF35 Trophy, the fleet of cutting-edge hydro-foiling catamarans will mix up their standard windward-leeward championship racing by taking part in Saturday's Geneve-Rolle-Geneve long-distance race, the prologue to the renowned Bol d'Or Mirabaud.

Hosted by Realstone to raise awareness for sailing cancer charity Léman hope, the championship racing will be held on Friday, 2 June and Sunday, 4 June, with five windward-leeward races scheduled per day. However, the fickle winds on the lake at this time of the year may complicate matters. 

In stark contrast to the last three days when Lake Geneva delivered a brisk 10-15 knot breeze and a solid 5-race per day program, the final day of the TF35 Geneva Cup, hosted by Société Nautique de Genève, had to be put on hold due to a lack of wind.

Winner of the TF35 Geneva Cup, Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, had an excellent week, winning over half of the races sailed. The highlight was six consecutive victories over Friday and Saturday.

At the morning briefing for day three of the TF35 Geneva Cup, there was uncertainty as to whether the forecasted wind would hold on long enough to allow for a full racing schedule. However, with 10- 15 knots on the racecourse as the boats hit the water and the sun never quite managing to burn through the cloud cover during the afternoon, the breeze held on to allow five spectacular races.

Jérôme Clerc and his crew onboard Realteam Sailing were the top-scoring boat for the second day running. They continued their winning streak from yesterday by securing victory in the first race (race 8 in the series) with a clear five-boat-length lead over rivals Alinghi Red Bull Racing in second and Spindrift in third. Clerc repeated his success in the second race, leading the fleet from start to finish but this time with Nathalie Brugger, at the helm of Alinghi Red Bull Racing, consistently within touching distance in second place, while Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier pursued them closely in third.

Day 2 of the TF35 Geneva Cup was marked by an exceptional performance from Jérôme Clerc and his crew on Realteam Sailing, as they claimed victory in four out of five races sailing an almost perfect day.

The only team to consistently challenge Clerc's dominance matching their speed, boat handling, and often finishing within seconds of them, was Spindrift, with Yann Guichard at the helm and Yann Jauvin calling tactics. Spindrift finished second in all races today except for the fifth, in which Alinghi Red Bull Racing fought their way through the fleet from an average start to take second and bump Spindrift into third.

 A superb opening day for the 2023 TF35 season, hosted this week by the esteemed Société Nautique de Genève, saw different teams come to the fore, with Bertrand Demole's Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier winning the day with an impressive 1-3 scoreline, and Nathalie Brugger at the helm of the all-new youth crew onboard Alinghi Red Bull Racing paving their way to potentially becoming this year's underdogs.

The conditions on Lake Geneva today were typical for spring, with a shifty 7-knot La Bise (north wind) building to 13 knots over the afternoon. Yesterday's high winds left a leftover chop, providing a biting spray for the crews onboard the hydro-foiling TF35s.

The TF35 high-performance one-design foiling catamaran is set to launch its third season this week on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, with new crews turning up the heat for the 2023.

New to the fleet for the start of the year will be Swiss businessman Julien Firmenich leading Ylliam 17, which boasts an all-star international crew featuring Australian Match Racing star Torvar Mirsky, 470 Olympic Champion Will Ryan, Kiwi multihull sailor Stuart Dodson, two-time Olympian Jason Saunders, and Swiss SSL sailor Nelson Mettraux.

Esteban Garcia's TF35 Realteam for Léman hope today broke the Blue Ribbon Lake Geneva record, which has been held since 2014, by an impressive 46 minutes and 48 seconds. 

The prestigious speed record covering the length of Lake Geneva between Port-Noir (GE ) and Le Bouveret (VS) had been held by Hydros.ch since 2014, but today, at 15.27, flying over the virtual finish line near Port Noir the Lausanne team of Esteban Garcia and Jerome Clerc has set a new record of 3 hours, 43 minutes and 27 seconds as certified by the Cercle de la Voile of the Société Nautique de Genève (CVSNG), in the sailing category (Leman Sailing Speed Records).

The 2023 TF35 Trophy season has been announced, with seven events scheduled, starting on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in May and finishing in foiling paradise on Lake Garda, Italy, in mid-September. 

New to the circuit for 2023 will be the TF35 Geneva Cup hosted by the prestigious Société Nautique de Genève over the 18-21 May. This will be the first time the fleet will have raced together after the long winter period, so the results for the Geneva Cup will be all to play for as the fleet gets back into TF35 mode. 

After yesterday's five-race spectacular, today, the TF35 2022 season sadly finished with no wind on the Gulf of Follonica in Scarlino, Italy.

Winner of the TF35 Trophy overall is Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing, whose victories at the Swiss events in Mies and at the Genève-Rolle-Genève, followed by a second place last month in Malcesine northern Italy gave them the points gap needed to win the 2022 season with an event to spare. 

Scarlino Italy delivered big on the penultimate day of the 2022 TF35 season, with five races sailed in the conditions that the cutting-edge catamarans were designed for; flat water and 9 - 12 knots resulting in four hours of high-performance foiling.

"It's perfect here for us," enthused Alinghi Red Bull Racing sailor Lucien Cujean on the dock. "The race committee did an excellent job getting a full program of five races in. It was a long day but a good day."  

Day two of racing at the TF35 Scarlino, the final regatta of the 2022 season, and Jérôme Clerc at the helm of Realteam for Leman hope once again sailed a perfect day, adding two more bullets to his team's impeccable score line.

After a two-hour delay ashore this morning, the sea breeze eventually filled to a stable 6-8 knots allowing racing to get underway off the Tuscan coastline at 1400.

"Today was a very light wind, which was challenging for everybody," explained Duncan Späth, mainsail trimmer for Spindrift. "It's a different mode of sailing with different strategies, and you never know who will be ahead at the up or downwind mark."

Scarlino Italy delivered a perfect opening day to the final event of the 2022 TF35 Trophy with one round of practice racing followed by two official points-scoring races on the sparkling Gulf of Follonica against the hazy silhouette of the island of Elba.

Race 1 started with a modest six-knot westerly breeze in which Realteam for Leman hope and Team Sailfever were the quickest onto their foils upwind, with clean starts flying on port off the start line. With an even split up the first beat, Spindrift and Alinghi Red Bull Racing ducked the transom of second-placed Team Sailfever and slotted into third and four at the first gate.

The final event of the  2022 TF35 season will take place this week with the fleet of cutting-edge hydro-foiling catamarans racing out of the prestigious Mediterranean port of Scarlino in the heart of Tuscan Italy, over the 6 – 9 of October.

With light winds and flat water in the forecast, the competition will kick off on Thursday 6th October with two practice rounds followed by two points-scoring races.

Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard's Spindrift wins the TF35 Malcesine Cup after a beautiful four-race day on Lake Garda. For the young crew onboard, this is their first win in the TF35 fleet, and helm Guichard couldn't have been prouder of his team's performance after the prizegiving: "We took the lead on the first day and kept it until the last day - that's an achievement", he enthused.

"We were very fast with good starts and competitive with the best teams in the fleet. Yann (Jauvin) made excellent tactical calls, the team has done a great job on the performance side and some days it all just works. It was a perfect event for Spindrift".

Day three of the TF35 Malcesine Cup and the young crew onboard Spindrift continued to be the standout team winning both races in the unusually light, fickle breeze on the lake.

The day started promising classic Lake Garda conditions, but again, the southerly Ora wind failed to fill in as expected for the third day in a row. "A long day", explained Yann Guichard helm of Spindrift on the dock after racing. "We were not expecting the irregular wind, so it was not easy for the Race Committee to start races." 

Storm clouds continued to postpone racing on day two of the TF35 Malcesine Cup. At the morning skipper's briefing, the seven TF35s were instructed to stay tied up at the dock to wait for the forecasted strong northerly Pelèr wind to abate in the afternoon, allowing the southerly Ora wind to kick in. At 1300 the teams headed out hoping to get some classic Lake Garda racing in, but this didn't happen as the northerly, boosted by the morning storm, continued to blow at 20knots and the teams returned to the safety of Fraglia Vela Malcesine.

"Lake Garda is a beautiful place, Lake Garda is sublime, and it is theoretically a paradise for sailing. For the past two or three days, there has finally been a bit of rain in Europe, we won't complain about it, but it's upset the regularity of the wind," explained Team Sailfever helm Loïck Peyron on the dock as the team waited for the wind to settle.

It was a moody start to the TF35 Malcesine Cup as the bright, brisk, flat water conditions for which Lake Garda is famous were interrupted by the tail-end of a storm that rumbled over the Italian lake.

"This morning there were thunderstorms, it was quite special, and we didn't know what the day would be like," explained Spindrift's tactician Yann Jauvin. "We had to be open-minded and stay focused because the day promised to be long." 

The hotly anticipated TF35 Malcesine Cup sets sail tomorrow (Thursday, 8 September) with the seven high-performance hydro foiling catamarans racing against one another for the first time since the prestigious Bol D'Or Mirabaud long-distance race on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, back in June. 

While this is the first time the TF35 fleet has competed on Lake Garda inthe shadow of the Dolomite Mountains, the sailors know it well. The home team for the Italian event, Vitamina Sailing, headed up by kiwi tactician Adam Minoprio, arrives fresh from last week's M32 European Championship in Riva del Garda, where they finished in second place. 

With the Swiss half of the TF35 season complete, the cutting-edge hydro-foiling catamarans now move on to Italy for the final two events of the 2022 season; the TF35 Malcesine Cup over the 8 - 11 September and the TF35 Scarlino over 6 - 9 October.

It’s only the second year of racing for the newly designed fleet, but already during the first four regattas of this season, compressed into May and June, a dramatic improvement has been seen across the fleet as the teams have got to grips with their new racing machines.

After 14h 22m 19s of racing on Lake Geneva, Frédéric Jousset's Team Sailfever is the first TF35 to finish the 83rd Bol d'Or Mirabaud and second boat overall to cross the finish line at 00:20 this morning.

Leading the fleet off the Société Nautique de Genève start line at 10:00 CET yesterday morning, Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard's Spindrift had the early lead with a good distance between them and the chasing pack. Guichard's team worked well in the light breeze to keep ahead and seemed to be fully recovered from their dramatic capsize last weekend in Mies until just before the Bouveret turning point when a technical problem with the flight system meant, disappointingly, they had to abandon the race.

Tomorrow (Saturday 11 June), the starting gun for the 83rd edition of the Bol d'Or Mirabaud will sound from Société Nautique de Genève at 10:00 CET, and the  TF35s will join more than 2,500 competitors in the world's largest lake regatta.

The record for the 123 kilometer (66.5 nautical mile) course has been held since 1994 by the trimaran Triga IV in 5h01m. The TF35s took part in the prestigious Swiss race for the first time last year, but with the breeze barely reaching six knots all day, it was slow progress. Thirteen hours later, as darkness fell, the wind finally kicked in for a 25-knot sprint between five TF35s to the finish line in which  Bertrand Demole's Ylliam XII - Comptoir Immobilier took the win.

Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi Red Bull Racing triumphed at the end of a thrilling final day of the TF35 Mies Grand Prix, which came down to a match racing battle with closest rivals Realteam for Léman hope over the last three races of the series.

Bertarelli's Swiss America's Cup challenger team went into the day ahead, tied on points with Realteam for Léman hope, but with the confidence of having won the Genève-Rolle-Genève long-distance race yesterday. 

Alinghi Red Bull Racing wins the Genève-Rolle-Genève in 3h2m after fighting hard to stay ahead of old rivals Realteam for Léman hope and Spindrift on a perfect day of racing on Lake Geneva.

The long-distance race started lightly under brilliant sunshine with the fleet of 220 boats drifting over the start line in three knots of breeze. Of the TF35s, Spindrift had the best start and took an early lead, in contrast, form team Alinghi Red Bull Racing struggled: "We got a little covered, so we weren't in a better position for the start of the race," explained Arnaud Psarofaghis. "Just after the start Nico (Charbonnier) managed to find us a good line to successfully cross the fleet of multihulls and monohulls and reach the French coast at Collonge-Bellerive, which put us in the leading group." 

The opening day of the TF35 Mies event was slow to get going as thunderstorms rumbled over Lake Geneva. When racing finally got underway, it was in the late afternoon with a modest seven-knots of Seabreeze, which built to a stable 12-knots allowing fourclosely-fought races to be held. 

The afternoon's standout performers were Alinghi Red Bull Racing and Realteam for Lèman hope, who finish the day tied on points at the top of the leaderboard.

Seven TF35s will hit the sparkling waters of Lake Geneva this weekend for two days of championship racing on either side of Saturday's Geneve-Rolle-Geneve long-distance race, the prologue to the famous Bol d'Or Mirabaud.

After four days of racing on Lake Geneva in light conditions under sunny skies but with a far from straightforward meteorological picture to contend with Realteam, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, has claimed the opening event win of 2022 season after scoring two bullets over the first two days.

Lake Geneva presented a challenging third day of racing for the TF35 as the light-to-no windforecast eventually rewarded the patience of the teams and perseverance of the race committee with one successful race.  

After finishing at the bottom of the raking on day one, Frédéric Jousset's golden hulled TF35, Team SAILFEVER, helmed by Frenchman Loïck Peyron, turned their fortunes around on the second day of the Realstone Cup for Léman hope taking place this weekend in Nyon.

After an hour of practice racing under brilliant sunshine on the sparkling waters of Lake Geneve, the seven TF35 teams had shaken off any winter dust that might have accumulated. They were ready for the Realstone Cup for Léman hope, the opening event of the TF35's 2022 season.

After a short break under AP, as the wind kicked up to 21 knots and then settled down again, Lake Geneva's notoriously fickle breeze allowed just one race to take place in a comfortable 15 knots from the southwest.

The TF35 Trophy's 2022 season gets underway next week, racing out of Nyon, Switzerland, over 19-22 May, for the Realstone Cup for Léman hope.

When it comes to multihull racing there are few things that French veteran Loick Peyron hasn’t done and won. 

Building on the success of their inaugural season, the TF35 Trophy goes into 2022 strong with new team Vitamina Sailing, helmed by Andrea Lacorte, joining the line-up of seven cutting-edge hydro-foiling catamarans. 

The TF35 kicks off the new year with a new team joining the fleet. Alongside their successful M32 campaign, Italian Vitamina Sailing Team will join the TF35 Trophy for 2022 with Andrea Lacorte at the helm of the new boat Vitamina Volante.

The opening season for the new cutting-edge TF35 hydro-foiling catamarans has drawn to a close. Here we look back on all the highs and lows of 2021.

With ominous black clouds rolling over Scarlino, Italy, the morning of the final day racing looked borderline from the start, with a forecast wind starting at 18-knots and building to guests of 25-knots by lunchtime.

Another top of the range day off Scarlino, Italy, for the TF35 season final saw  Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing claim two bullets from three races, further extending their lead over the chasing pack.

At the halfway stage of the TF35 season final in Scarlino Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, has risen to the top of the leaderboard but is challenged at every move by Alinghi and Spindrift.

As if easing the teams into the final decider of the inaugural TF35 season, Scarlino delivered a warm sea breeze between 6 - 11 knots, flat water and blue skies on the sparkling Tuscan coast for the opening day of racing.

The pressure is on for the TF35 fleet going into tomorrow's grand final in Scarlino, Italy, over the 23 - 26 September. 

Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, triumphed at the end of a thrilling final day at the TF35 Scarlino Trophy. 

TF35 Trophy Principle Race Officer Benoit Deutsch picked his moment well today to get two thrilling races in, with the boats foiling upwind at 24knots in 16 knots of breeze, before the heavy mistral wind cut the day short.

A challenging second day for the seven TF35s in Scarlino started with an hour delay ashore as the moody overcast skies prevented the sea breeze from kicking in.  

The opening day of the TF35 Scarlino Trophy delivered everything the fleet had hoped for their first experience racing away from Lake Geneva: a steady 8-12-knot breeze and flat water under brilliant sunshine.

After a week of training on the Bay of Scarlino in Tuscany, the seven TF35 teams are ready for the first official day of points scoring racing tomorrow, Thursday, 9 September.

This week final preparations are being made for the new cutting-edge TF35 hydro-foiling catamarans first open water regatta in Scarlino, Italy, 9 - 12 September. 

In sparkling conditions on Lake Geneva this morning, the seven high-performance TF35 hydro-foiling catamarans joined 440 other boats of all shapes and sizes for the 82nd edition of the Bol d'Or Mirabaud.

Tomorrow, Saturday 12 June, the seven TF35s will take part in the world's largest inland lake regatta: the Bol d'Or Mirabaud.

Realteam Sailing owned by Esteban Garcia and co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc triumphed on the final day of the TF35 Mies with wins in both races before a lack of breeze ended the day early.

The TF35 Mies fleet racing was paused today to allow the seven TF35s to join more than 250 other boats to participate in the iconic Genève-Rolle-Genève long-distance race; the prologue to the Bol'Or Mirabaud.

The new TF35 hydro-foiling catamarans enjoyed a cracking day of super-competitive racing in the sunshine as the TF35 Mies got underway, with Ernesto Bertarelli's Alinghi emerging as top boat.

This weekend the seven cutting-edge TF35 hydro-foiling catamarans will compete in a bumper weekend of racing. The competition will start on Fridaywithwhat promises to be another round of hotly-contested one-design racing at the TF35 Mies, the third event of the inaugural TF35 Trophy. 

Looking at the forecast overnight, Sunday was lining up to be another day of thrilling racing conditions for the final of the TF35 Nyon. With just two points between leaders Realteam and second-placed Alinghi there was the potential for an exciting showdown.

While on day one there was no stand-out team, today Esteban Garcia's Realteam Sailing, co-skippered by Jérôme Clerc, had the bit between her teeth, posting an almost perfect 1 1 2 1 scoreline.

The opening day of the TF35 Nyon was an unusually high scoring for all but Dona Bertarelli and Yann Guichard's Spindrift. 

This weekend the seven teams competing on the new cutting-edge TF35 hydro-foiling catamaran will take to the waters of Lake Geneva for round two of their 2021 racing calendar.     

 If there was going to be racing on the third and final day of the TF35 Opening Grand Prix, the teams needed to be ready to go at a moment's notice. The crews kept ashore; the race committee took to the lake to the south of Nyon to check out the conditions.

After day one of the TF35 Opening Grand Prix in Nyon was abandoned due to lack of wind, PRO Benoit Deutsch and the race committee had the TF35 teams on Lake Geneva early today to make the most of a small weather window. 

Despite the TF35's design to foil in puffs as low as 6 knots, the light forecast of the opening day of the TF35 Trophy failed to deliver even that, and racing was sadly abandoned at 15.30CET as Lake Geneva remained windless.

The TF35 Opening Grand Prix sets sail tomorrow off Société Nautique de Nyon, Switzerland, marking the start of the first-ever TF35 Trophy.

The TF35 Trophy is proud to announce its partnership with OMEGA as the Official Timekeeper for the tour.

French sailing legend, Loïck Peyron, joins the line-up of top sailing stars to compete in the first-ever event of the inaugural TF35 Trophy next week.

The TF35 Trophy is proud to celebrate the return to sailing and the sport that we love. As we deliver the opening event of the 2021 season at the Société Nautique de Nyon this weekend, we pledge that the health and safety of all our stakeholders – sailors, officials and partners – will be our priority.

The next generation of high performance foiling catamaran will make its official debut in 2021 with a seven-event circuit.

This weekend the fleet of seven TF35s met for the second time on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for round two of training. 

This weekend, 4-6 September, seven of the new TF35 high-performance foiling catamarans met for the first time on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, for a training weekend hosted by Club Nautique de Crans.

For the first time, the fleet of seven TF35s will meet on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, to take part in two training weekends.

With the entire sporting world having been brought to a temporary standstill this year due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The new TF35 Class, due to start racing in the summer of 2020, has revised its schedule.

Eight teams will compete in the first ever TF35 Trophy, with four Swiss crews transitioning over from the D35 and four new crews set to join the fray. 

Last night, Thursday 20 February, the TF35 was presented with the coveted Innovation Award at the Foiling Awards ceremony in Milan, Italy. 

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. 

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

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.

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.

Compared to its predecessors, the TF35 has been designed with the significant drive to offer top level foiling to a wider audience of sailors. 

A project 21 months in the making, the innovative TF35's journey from first concept to first splash was spearheaded by an experienced design team.