Quantum Racing 10 Year Anniversary Book

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS

SID E V IE W

2008 QUANTUM RACING D ECK L AYO U T, P L A N V IE W

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS

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CONTENTS

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T H E B AT T L E T O B R E A K I N T O GRAND PRIX RACING

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SEASON ONE: 2008

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SEASON T WO: 2009

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HARD WORK & TEAMWORK

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TOILING WITH TRUS T & RESPEC T

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TOP DOWN & BOT TOM UP

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D R I V I N G H A R D W I T H T H E D ATA

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QUANTUM R ACING ROS TER

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FOREWORD

ED REYNOLDS

Managing Director of Quantum Racing and CEO of Quantum Sails

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PEOPLE When I think about Quantum Racing, one really important conversation that I had early on with Doug DeVos stands out.

I was focused on the technology and resources Quantum Sails could bring to Quantum Racing. Doug was very supportive, acknowledging the importance of these contributions and offering various ideas and perspectives to strengthen the program. Then he paused. “But you know, it always comes down to the people, they are the most important part of a team’s success. If we get good people and put them in a position to succeed, then we will, too.”

How right he was!

Under the watchful eye and guidance of Mark Koetje, we didn’t always get everything we wanted, but through Doug’s commitment and vision, we always had everything we needed to achieve the goals of the program.

Of all the teams I’ve ever been part of, Quantum Racing exemplifies the best of the best. It’s a case study in how a team should function. Everyone owns his area, everyone is respectful and supportive, and everyone has the back of the person next to him. I am confident the vast majority of people who have been on this 10-year journey would wholeheartedly agree.

Many members of the team—myself included—have developed some of our most sincere and strongest friendships with people who have been part of Quantum Racing.

This happened not because we were forced on each other or just enjoyed having a good time together. It happened because team members, through various situations, usually reveal the type of people they are at their core. Almost always you would discover people committed to doing the right thing and being better than they thought they were—exactly the type of people you want and need in both your professional and personal lives. Many long-lasting friendships have developed over the years.

The team has included many of the world’s best sailors, but none hold their status above any other member of the team. Talented athletes know they are only as good as their equipment. They understand, respect and value their fellow team members who work around the clock to make sure the “perfect weapon” leaves the dock every morning. The sailors know it’s their job to get the results the entire team is working hard to achieve.

“Continuous improvement” and “own your area” are our rallying cries and everyone takes these on with passion.

Everyone on the team understands that we are only as strong as our weakest link; everyone is devoted to giving everything they have to not be that weak link.

Of all Quantum Racing’s sailing accomplishments, of which there are many, the team’s greatest is the melding of individuals—from different countries and cultures, differing political opinions and religious views, and with different skills—into one of the best and most iconic sailing teams ever.

A key goal has been to make sure that everyone who comes on board understands their importance to the team’s success.

And when and if they move on, they leave in a better position than when they joined.

Of course, none of this could have happened without Doug’s guiding principle: Find good people, have a plan, provide them what they need, then get out of their way.

This book commemorating the first 10 years is like Quantum Racing itself—it’s all about the people. Thank you to all who have contributed.

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THE BATTLE TO BREAK INTO GRAND PRIX RACING

For Doug DeVos, sailing has been a family affair since his father bought a two-masted schooner for an adventure from the East Coast to South America. His brothers, sisters and cousins shared the zeal and raced against each other in a variety of boats. Doug would pursue his passion to the highest levels of the sport—the Audi MedCup, the world’s leading Grand Prix (GP) circuit.

The rarefied world of Grand Prix racing is not easy to join—and even harder in which to succeed. It’s cut-throat competitive and consumes enormous commitment from owner/drivers and every member of a team. Nevertheless, Doug and his Quantumpowered Windquest team captured two second-place finishes over the first three years (2005-2007) of the MedCup Circuit. Ed Reynolds, president of Quantum Sails, was coaching. Fred Howe, a fellow partner in Quantum Sails, was also racing his Warpath in the TP52 circuit at the time.

As devoted users of Quantum’s sails, Doug and Fred knew first-hand the value of the company’s products and technology. They also knew, as Ed did, the challenge facing a young company trying to break into GP racing. For the 2008 season, the three developed a plan for a joint campaign. The overall focus was a Grand Prix program unlike anything that had been done before.

Doug and Fred would combine their resources into one new team named Quantum Racing. The sails, the boat and the crew would all be brand representatives, working together on product development for Grand Prix sailors and everyday customers. A media team would be created to provide a backstage pass so the sailing public could experience Grand Prix racing. Media visibility, they reasoned, would not only increase the viewing audience, but also help attract more teams, both of which were important to the long-term success of the Circuit.

Ed and Doug turned to Terry Hutchinson as the team’s tactician. While Ed had known Terry for years, Doug had met him only the year before when, at Ed’s suggestion, Terry joined his Windquest team for the 2007 Audi MedCup (more on that on page 11 in “Ed Introduces Terry to Doug”).

As Terry worked on assembling a crew for the first season, he realized that he and others were spoiling for a bit of a steet fight. “I referred to us as the island of misfits because many of us had come out of the America’s Cup teams. For whatever reason, we hadn’t rejoined our teams, and so we all felt like we had a little something to prove,” Terry says.

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A COLOSSAL VISUAL DESIGN For the uphill battle that he planned to wage, Ed knew that the team’s identity had to be bold, brash and brazen. The crew members would need to wear attitude on their sails and their sleeves. Continuing with the challenger focus, Ed turned his attention to the boat.

For the boat and sail graphics, Ed contacted Bas van der Heide, the designer behind Studio Bas, who had a reputation for daring designs. He relished working with clients who impressed him by doing business in a different way. His attitude seemed a perfect match for the new Quantum Racing.

True to form, Bas created a bold design featuring Quantum’s electric aqua on the hull and sails emboldened with colossal versions of the company’s iconic Q. But Ed wondered if the design was a little too dramatic—and the designer’s fee was definitely dramatic. Ed called Bas to discuss the matter.

“I remember his reaction to my reservations as something like, ‘If you do not do this, you are stupid! This will be the most photographed boat in the world! If you don’t do this, you are stupid!’ He may not have called me stupid twice,” laughs Ed, “but I remember his vehemence caught me off guard. I thought for a moment and then agreed, ‘We’re in.’ And we paid his fee, because he was right.”

The boat’s striking design would be documented by dramatic video and photos in ways never seen before. Ed enlisted Keith Brash and Matt Carkeek for the job of Quantum Racing media team. Keith has since built a worldwide reputation for his marine videography as well as an enormous audience for Quantum Racing and Grand Prix racing generally.

When the MedCup opened its first event of the 2008 season in Alicante, there were 18 boats with North sails on the starting line.

The nineteenth boat in the fleet touted a huge Q. The battle line was drawn.

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There’s only one person I know who’s a sure bet. His name is Terry Hutchinson.

-Ed Reynolds

ED INTRODUCES TERRY TO DOUG Ed met Doug through two partners in Quantum Sails who had known the DeVos family for years. Soon after Doug became an investor in the firm, and Ed was outfitting Doug’s boats with Quantum sails. But Doug and Terry did not meet until 2007, when Ed brought them together.

That year Doug’s Windquest team, for which Ed was the sailmaker and coach, was racing in the Audi MedCup. However, race results had been disappointing. At Alicante the team had a particularly painful finish. The morning after the closing ceremony, Ed and Mark “Kooch” Koetje were waiting outside the hotel for the team bus to the airport. As Ed tells the story, a black Mercedes glided to a stop in front of them and the rear window motored down.

‘Can I give you a ride to the airport?’ Doug asked. “My first thought was like a scene from a movie,” says Ed. “Kooch and I were to be taken for a long ride down dirt roads through dark woods.”

name is Terry Hutchinson,” Ed said. Doug agreed that Ed should phone Terry about joining the team midway through the season.

“I just need to warn you, he’s demanding. And he doesn’t show well.” Doug and Mark laughed. “What do you mean he doesn’t show well?”

“You’ll see,” Ed replied.

Terry joined the team for the next regatta, and what had been a swan-dive of a season started to turn around.

In the car Doug asked what could be done to turn the team around. “You have two options,” Ed said. “You can fire the entire crew, because they’re never going to sail with this tactician again, or you can fire the tactician.”

“Well, who can we get to replace him?”

“There’s only one person I know who’s a sure bet. His

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“WE ALL KNOW OWNERS WHO INSPIRE THEIR TEAMS BUT DOUG’S WAY IS SPECIAL. PEOPLE AROUND HIM FEED OFF THE POSITIVE ENERGY HE RADIATES. HE GENUINELY ENJOYS HIS SAILING AND THE CAMARADERIE WITH THE SAILORS AROUND HIM.” ROB WEIL AND

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2008 THE TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS OF A NEW TEAM

Any new Grand Prix team has a long and varied list of nuts, bolts and people requisites to solve before launch. An issue that impacts all those items is building trust and positive relationships among team members. That quality was a key in propelling Quantum fast and far in its first year.

Cannon, who frequently got shocked while standing in ankle-deep water.

“We didn’t have a very good system that first season to keep it dry,” says Tom Burnham. The bilge pump also had a way of directing the water stream where winds could return it to the deck and soak the crew.

“I would say we were probably a little bit of the underdogs or the unknowns, and yet we kind of trusted in the people and the team to get the job done,” Terry Hutchinson says.

The team was also battling Mean Machine, an experienced group that had previously been MedCup champ and was expected to be a contender in its new boat. Nevertheless, Quantum made it to the podium in third place, six points behind the leader Mean Machine. In second place was Bribón with King Juan Carlos steering.

M A I D E N V OYA G E I N A L I C A N T E In its first test, the Alicante regatta, the team was still working hard to figure out the boat. One issue was that it often had water below. Another problem was a persistent electrical fault, something that became well known to Jim

“We were a little disappointed because we had such a nice start but didn’t get anything going our way today,” Terry said after the last race in Alicante. “It was tricky from that moment on and showed that we have a lot of work to do on going downwind. Right now we are just hanging on there to everybody.”

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But it took a little time.

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My biggest memory of the first year is that the team got better in every regatta. We gained confidence because we could see ourselves improving. I think we always felt that we were going to win. It was just going to be a matter of getting ourselves into a position where we could.

We knew we had everything that we needed.

-Terry Hutchinson

While Quantum often showed its best in big breezes, the team ended in fifth place in Marseille. “So as every good team does, we had to address what we thought the problems were to move forward with it—each guy in his own area and myself included,” Terry said.

In Sardinia, the payoff seemed to arrive for the team’s hard work on all the fine points. On the Golfo di Cagliari, the team captured four races, moving steadily forward in the overall rankings. In the key tenth race, Quantum and Mean Machine were bow to bow when Quantum overtook El Desafio and Matador to win the regatta. The win also moved Quantum into first place on the Circuit.

“The real excitement for me is watching the process of continual improvement get executed as planned,” Ed Reynolds said in Cagliari. “Our technology team has done a great job of interacting with the team.”

T HE P I VO T IN P U ER T O P O R TA L S Quantum’s momentum accelerated in Puerto Portals.

After taking second place in four races, the team won its first coastal race of the season, a 33-mile event sailed in two stages and counting for double points. Quantum departed the Bay of Palma with a 14-point win over second-place Matador in the regatta and a 30-point lead over Artemis in the series.

“We never looked back after that one,” says Tom Burnham.

Still, no crew members were resting on their win. “We are still leaving things on the table so we have to push ourselves to do better. Our biggest mistake would be to believe that we can’t get better,” Terry concluded.

In the first race in Cartagena, Quantum got off to a fast start but an equipment fault threw them back in the fleet. “We rounded the top mark in the lead and set our spinnaker,” Terry recalls. “The sheet got wrapped around the stern coaming and started sawing through the back of the boat – a little bit of a worry!”

The team battled back to fifth in that race, then took first place in the second. Ultimately, the team came in fourth in the Cartagena regatta, but more importantly, it added 11.2 points to its lead on the Circuit.

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In Marseille the team had another equipment issue when high winds shredded two sails the day before the regatta’s coastal race. Sewing through the night in a tiny rented loft, the shore team had the sails ready for the next day.

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FOX Y TA K E S A FA L L FOR THE TEAM It’s easy for people to get wrapped up in something, but not so easy to get unwrapped, especially if it’s spinnaker.

In the team’s first boat, the crew had to take the spinnaker down by hand.

During a race, Chris Kam and Greg “Foxy” Gendell were pulling furiously with Jim “Jimbo” Cannon below to get it in the boat ASAP. Greg somehow got tripped up and “Caspered” in the sail.

Snared head to foot in a straightjacket of spinnaker, he decided the only way to get the sail below quickly was by personal delivery. “Jimbo, look out, I’m coming down!” he yelled as he went through the hatch, hitting Jim and the deck hard. “Foxy the Friendly Ghost” had landed.

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OVERPOWERING IN PORTIMÃO AND PUERTO CALERO Quantum was swiftly building an impregnable MedCup lead. On the penultimate day of racing in Portimão, the win was sealed with the team’s 52.2 point lead over second-place Bribón. Two races on the final day only added two more points to its series total and gave Quantum the regatta win by four points.

Having conquered the MedCup, the Quantum crew turned its attention to the Worlds.

In October, a full month after its MedCup win, the team proved that its drive was undiminished as it swept the TP52 World Championship in Puerto Calero. Once again, the team had built a lead that ensured the victory before the last race.

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“This was the best we sailed this year, the best we had the boat going.

We never let up the entire year,” Ed Reynolds said. “It might have looked a little easier than it was but 90% of the work necessary to be in this position is done before you come here. We did the work upfront, we were prepared, and this world title is a tribute to what great sailors they are.”

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“People don’t mind doing hard work. If they know that you need manpower, they’re always offering to jump in there and give you a hand.

In Marseille, high winds shredded two sails in the day before the regatta’s coastal race. Sewing through the night in a tiny rented loft, the shore team had the sails ready for the next day.

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I think that’s another reason why this team has been so successful.“ -Marty Winter

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GODZILLA VS. THE BILGE PUMP

It takes time and acumen to meld a multinational team of immensely skilled professionals into a dominant championship machine.

A really dumb movie can help.

In this case (but maybe you need to have seen it to get it), the movie is The Hangover. A naked Asian guy jumps out of a car trunk in Vegas and starts beating the three “good” guys. To fend off the blows by creating some common ground, a character yells, “I hate Godzilla, too!”

What does this have to do with the enemy known as the bilge pump?

(But maybe you need to have been there to get it.) The bilge pump in the boat had a bad habit of shooting water overboard where a stiff windward breeze could catch it and send it over the deck, dousing the crew. Hungry and tired during a long coastal race in 30+ kts, the pump was making Terry and the crew crazed and ornery. Tensions and yelling were mounting. Abruptly Morgan Trubovich shouted, “I hate Godzilla, too!!”

“Everyone started cracking up, one of those ice breaking moments,” Tom Burnham recalls. “There was no reason for us to be yelling at each other—it was just because we were exhausted, hadn’t had a calorie in hours and had been working ourselves at 120%.”

With Godzilla’s help, the team shook off the spray and won the race.

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That first season, we didn’t really know that we were that good. It took us a couple events to figure out, ‘Holy cow, we can win this thing!’ We were racing against successful teams that had been doing it for a while.

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2008 RACING RESULTS 3RD CITY OF ALICANTE TROPHY May 12-17 / Alicante, Spain

5TH CITY OF MARSEILLE TROPHY June 2-7 / Marseille, France

1ST REGION OF SARDINIA TROPHY June 30-July 5 / Cagliari, Italy

1ST BREITLING REGATTA

July 21-26 / Puerto Portals, Spain

4TH REGION OF MURCIA TROPHY August 20-25 / Cartagena, Spain

1ST PORTUGAL TROPHY

September 15-20 / Portimão, Portugal

1ST AUDI MEDCUP CIRCUIT 1ST TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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October 20-25 / Lanzarote, Spain

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2009 QUANTUM’S SECOND YEAR SECURES TWO MORE PODIUM FINISHES

Resting on its thick, green laurels from the 2008 championship season was not an option for the Quantum crew in 2009. All members knew it—TP52 competition is always too keen for that.

to make up from Team New Zealand,” Ian said. “They are sailing extremely well so all we can do is focus on doing a good job in the two regattas that are left and get two good results.”

In a close opening contest in Alicante, Matador and its new boat scored the season’s first regatta win, the team’s first win since 2007, by a single point.

In Marseille, Emirates Team New Zealand clinched the trophy by 14 points, but given Quantum’s two premature starts in the regatta, the leading margin was closer than it appeared and hardly a cue for complacency for any team.

Emirates TNZ won again in Cagliari. After Sardinia, Quantum was in third place overall on the Circuit.

His return seemed to bring some good fortune as the team was in first place after three races. However, it could not stave off Emirates TNZ from winning the Portugal regatta by a mere 1.5 points. Quantum took third place.

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Ian “Soapy” Moore rejoined the Quantum crew as navigator in Portimão after fulfilling a commitment in the Volvo Ocean Race. “We have a big points deficit

Emirates TNZ continued to demonstrate the consistency that the team had sought since Alicante, when its lead drifted away during the last run of the last race. In the big breezes of Cartagena, where the MedCup would be decided, Emirates won another first place and Quantum took another third, which earned the team second place in the Circuit.

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A B OAT L EN G T H IN T HE B A L A N C E In the season’s final contest, the TP52 World Championship in Matador’s home waters of Palma, the outcome was in the balance until the conclusion of the final race. After the regatta’s seven races, Quantum and Matador both had 23 points, but on countback, the latter’s three third places eclipsed Quantum’s two thirds and a fifth.

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A protest in the second race had previously disqualified Matador.

However, the jury reinstated the team on the final day. “That is sailboat racing,” Terry Hutchinson said. “At the end we were a length and a half from winning the regatta. We let it get away from us. But I am incredibly proud of the effort that the team put forward today.”

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C NN ’ S SHIR L E Y R O B ER T S O N IN V E S T I G AT E S Q UA N T U M R AC IN G Due to capturing the 2008 Grand Prix title in the team’s first year, Quantum was already in the spotlight in 2009, when it found itself in a new spotlight—CNN’s.

As host of CNN’s Mainsail program, Shirley Robertson got her hands dirty with the shore crew in Portimão. The Scottish sailor, BBC commentator and Olympic gold medalist knows a professional organization when she sees one. “People have to have that attention to detail on a Grand Prix shore team and it’s hugely evident on the Quantum team,” she said on video.

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She also became acquainted with the boat crew. “Terry is a star, a very special talent, but I think everybody on board is very professional and has a great team spirit, not just in the boat but back in the container. Everyone feels part of it and wants to do well.”

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KATIE BURNS LIVES HER DREAM Katie joined the team for the Portugal Trophy regatta but not by the usual route.

She was the winner of Quantum’s Live the Dream contest and its prize of a paid trip to Portimão. Her submission was an essay about fighting back during a mortar attack on her base while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq.

The contest was designed to allow a fan to see Grand Prix racing up close. “One of our objectives of this contest is to make the top level of sailing more accessible,” said Ed Reynolds. “There is great interest in Quantum Racing and the MedCup. Our whole crew is excited about the opportunity to show someone else what their lives are like, day to day, and what they do for a living as professional sailors.”

No mere visitor, Katie had a team role, sailing with the members for three days of practice, then racing each day through the regatta.

“The guys on the Quantum team are not at all arrogant about being the bomb,” she wrote. “They have incredibly low-key and accessible personalities, and I am often put at ease and made to feel as if I belong, not that I’m just some girl who won some contest. Each sailor on the team is strikingly accomplished. I am going to be a MUCH better sailor when I leave here, for sure!”

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“The sheer size of those waves a few days ago was amazing. They are the biggest I’ve ever experienced in a windward-leeward course.”

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-Sean Clarkson commenting on the conditions one day in Cartagena, Spain

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2009 RACING RESULTS 4TH ALICANTE TROPHY

May 12-17 / Alicante, Spain

2ND MARSEILLE TROPHY

June 9-14 / Marseille, France

7TH REGION OF SARDINIA TROPHY July 20-25 / Cagliari, Italy

3RD PORTUGAL TROPHY

August 18-23 / Portimão, Portugal

3RD REGION OF MURCIA TROPHY

September 14-19 / Cartagena, Spain

2ND AUDI MEDCUP CIRCUIT 2ND TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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October 6-11 / Palma, Spain

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“THE ESSENCE OF THIS TEAM HAS BEEN THE SKILL TO TURN NEGATIVE SITUATIONS INTO POSITIVE ONES. EVERYONE BRINGS POSITIVE ENERGY AND FOCUS ON EVERY DETAIL.” ROMOLO RANIERI

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POWERING UP FROM THE DOWNS Disappointments are inevitable but the ways in which teams respond are not. At the elite level of TP52 GP racing, a performance that is off just 1% or 2% opens a visible window for opponents—and all crew members can see it. The Quantum team has a knack for snapping back after disappointment like a tightly stretched rubber band.

“More often than not when we do have a bad race, we almost invariably have a really good one the next day,” says Warwick Fleury. “And to me, that is a mark of a special team. Not every team can do it.”

Breaking in a new boat often brings trials and tribulations for the team. Ed Baird recalls such a scene in 2011, a year that also brought many new members to the team.

HARD WORK & TEAMWORK The TP52 racing season is long. Every crew member’s effort on every day contributes to the outcome. What allows Quantum Racing’s crew

of diverse individuals to sustain the unwavering focus on the final goal?

Superior teamwork, they say. And while the teamwork has multiple components, its execution must be seamless.

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“Five or six people got off the boat that year to do the America’s Cup cycle. The previous three years the team had been largely the same group of people,” Baird says. And the new boat was far from ready. The crew spent days preparing systems, installing hardware and putting down the cockpit nonskid. Out on the water, more problems emerged: a magnetized hull that foiled navigation and defied solutions for weeks, a rudder that broke and a structural problem under the mast. The last Even after a crappy day, we would problem arose at the PalmaVela training event. To continue always get a positive email from sailing, Mark Koetje and others had to complete the repair—get a crane, pull out the mast, secure a spare part Terry, motivating us for the next day. from the sister ship—over the Easter break.

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-Phil Jameson

“It would have been pretty easy for people to throw their hands up and say, ‘This is stupid. This isn’t going to work. This is too much work,’ but no one did that,” Baird remembers. Instead the crew simply acknowledged they had problems and came together to fix them as promptly as possible. ”Without anyone necessarily intending it to be, that was a terrific team building moment. And you know what, that season turned out pretty great.”

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Overcoming a disappointing result is not something to solve for the next day—it’s the next leg, the next mark rounding.

-Adrian Stead

BLACK FLAGGED AT MAHON A potentially disastrous disappointment occurred in Mahon in 2016 when, after leading the regatta, an OCS cost the team a black flag and 12 points. “I’ve never seen the team so low going back in. For most teams that would be a devastating loss,” says James Lyne.

That evening Terry Hutchinson called a team meeting in the container. “It was a big deal for Terry, a very big deal,” recalls Warwick.

The team always wants to understand why it has

underperformed but assigning blame is not part of that discovery process. “There were no recriminations about it in the meeting,” says James. “The team bought the collective fault, it was everybody’s. And so the topic was how, collectively, we were going to win the next day, how we weren’t going to let a black flag control our regatta.”

Not bitter, just better was the attitude.

Perseverance paid off as the team turned it around the next day and went on to take first place in the 52 World Championship that year.

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GET TING BET TER ALL THE TIME Quantum Racing’s 100% effort is not reserved, however, for recovery. Especially in competition like the TP52s, the highest level of effort is necessary for consistent success, and crew members believe that this team is special in its drive for continuous improvement.

“To me, what’s different with Quantum Racing is you have a great group of people who all want to keep on winning,” says Brendan Darrer. “It’s the hardest working team I’ve been on. Everybody works hard and wants to be better. There’s a relentless desire to be better and just keep moving forward.”

For Ed Baird, the level of commitment to that goal is a defining variable. “One of the great things about the Quantum team is the focus: How do we succeed? How do we do better tomorrow than we did today?

For some teams the question is, how do we win right now? Those teams end up looking for magic and change people a lot.

For me, magic is all about making sure that you do better tomorrow than you did today.

That was our big value on Quantum.”

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2010 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SEALS THE SEASON

Some new box rules, a new partner and a mass of Olympic medalists signaled the start of Quantum Racing’s third season.

With an eye to simpler, faster sailing, TP52 class management made some changes to the box rules for 2010. Bowsprits replaced spinnaker poles. A square-top mainsail, twin backstays and a 150-kg increase in bulb weight were also implemented. To prepare the boat for its third year in the water, the Quantum crew worked hard over the winter, cutting off the deck and making modifications.

“It’s interesting to work with the Sebago designers to identify the features and performance factors that are important to sailors,” Ed Reynolds said.

“The proof of this effort will be in the feedback generated by Quantum crew members as they test the gear in harsh conditions. We’ve prepared Sebago for a brutally honest critique—this is not a bashful group.”

Competition in the Audi MedCup would remain the most challenging in the sport. By World Sailing’s count, the crews of the 2010 fleet accounted for 22 Olympic medals.

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Quantum joined forces in 2010 with Sebago to develop sailing gear.

New products were to be co-branded and available at Sebago and Quantum locations.

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ICED IN CASCAIS BEFORE SAILING THE RIGHT STUFF

In the Mistrals of Marseille, the team scored an eighth place in the opener, then displayed its comeback skills by winning three races and seizing first place on the podium. In Barcelona’s Conde de Godó, Quantum won two of 10 races for a third-place finish. In the first race for Cartagena’s Region of Murcia Trophy, the team

slumped to ninth place, then recovered for a fourth in the event.

In Cagliari, the fifth and final regatta of the 2010 MedCup, Quantum finished fifth, a disappointing low of the season. Nonetheless, its overall standing in the series was strong enough for second place in the Circuit.

“Finishing second with a three-year-old boat is an amazing accomplishment,” said Ed Reynolds on the dock in Cagliari. “We sailed the boat much faster in 2010 than in 2008 when we won the Circuit, which is a testament to the work of our designers and speed team. We sailed against the strongest fleet ever, and the new boats definitely have a competitive advantage.”

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The season opened in Cascais, known for bashing conditions that shred gennakers, damage equipment and bruise sailors.

Nonetheless, Quantum won the regatta’s first and last races. In between, a boom mishap caused Terry Hutchinson to miss two days while he recovered on shore. Despite a fourth-place finish in Portugal, the team knew that it had what it would take to compete for the top.

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I remember the peel from the A3 to the A4 in Marseille in 25 kts of wind. Perfect execution as we sailed away from Emirates Team New Zealand. Won the race by miles.

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-Phil Jameson, after the win in Marseille

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“To stand here and know that we won two of the last three world championships and tied last year, it says something about the people, the team and the whole program.�

-Terry Hutchinson, after the 2010 World Championship in Valencia

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SH OW D OW N W I T H M ATA D O R The season’s last stop was October’s TP52 World Championship, where Quantum hoped to win outright after its tie on countback the previous year.

At the midpoint after five races, Quantum held first place. The team had won two of the five, had a total of 12 points and a three-point lead over Artemis. Going into the final day’s only race, Quantum still had a three-point lead but now it was over perennial nemesis Matador.

With both teams at the top of the standings, only one of them could be the champ.

The weather looked likely to deny a last duel until officials fired the gun 15 minutes before limit time. Quantum was managing Matador well at the back of the fleet, but things became tense when other dueling boats in front of them slowed, creating opportunities for Matador to bolt.

“We kept driving them back, but we were gaining on the fleet. The strength of the Quantum boat against the Matador boat showed in the tacking duels,” Terry said. At the finish line, Matador had slipped one place ahead but it was Quantum that lifted the trophy.

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2010 RACING RESULTS 4TH PORTUGAL TROPHY

May 11-16 / Cascais, Portugal

1ST MARSEILLE TROPHY

June 15-20 / Marseille, France

3RD CONDE DE GODÓ

July 20-25 / Barcelona, Spain

4TH REGION OF MURCIA TROPHY August 24-29 / Cartagena, Spain

5TH REGION OF SARDINIA TROPHY September 20-25 / Cagliari, Italy

2ND AUDI MEDCUP CIRCUIT 1ST TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

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2011 Despite opening the season with a new boat and less practice than had been hoped for, Quantum Racing got off to a swift start in the stout winds of Cascais in May, taking first place. Performances that stood out included the team’s second place in the 38-mile coastal race and first place on the final day of racing, when winds consistently reached 22+ kts.

During trials, helmsman Ed Baird said that sailing the TP52s always puts a smile on his face. “The boats slip along so easily they feel like giant dinghies. But that also means the crew has to work very hard to make the boat go faster than the competition. We enjoyed some great moments as we learned how to give this boat what it wanted to go fast.”

Designed by Botin Partners and built by Longitude Zero, the new boat reflected a number of changes to the TP52 class. Bulbs on the top boats were around 3 tons but under the new class rule, maximum bulb weight increased to 3.8 tons. Draft changed from 3.2 to 3.35 m. With standing headroom lowered by 8 cm, the companionway was lower.

A cambered deck, rather than the previous boat’s flat deck, provided more stiffness, which Botin Partners designer Adolfo Currau called “king in this upwind-oriented class.”

Baird assumed the helmsman’s duties from Terry Hutchinson, who joined the America’s Cup in 2011 after sailing with Quantum Racing over its first three years. Other new crew members that year were Matt Cassidy, Ben Durham, Grant “Louie” Loretz and Joe Spooner.

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A BRIL L IAN T S TAR T AND FINISH

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“Cascais is usually big breezes, big waves and just big ocean open swell. And that’s what these boats are made for! When they get ripping down, they’re amazing. It’s like you’re on a giant surf board.”

-Matt Cassidy

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“DEFENDING BEFORE WE WERE READY“ While Quantum Racing did not repeat a first-place finish in the regattas after Cascais, they never lost sight of the ultimate goal: capturing the Audi MedCup season title.

In the penultimate race in Barcelona, they did that in the Circuit’s closest finish in four years.

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“Of all the MedCups, this is the one I am most thrilled about,” Ed Reynolds said on the dock after the win.

“We feel like we have been defending the whole season, like we had a target on our backs since we won in Cascais.

We were defending before we were ready. In a competitive sport, when everything is on the line, it’s great to be a part of a team that stands up and takes control.”

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A BLOWUP BELOW

On a spectacular, calm morning, Mark Koetje and Ed Reynolds were taking the coach boat from Valencia to the season’s first regatta in Palma. Ben Durham was sleeping quietly below. He had forgotten to take his passport out of his luggage so he could not join the rest of the team, which was flying to Palma.

What could go wrong?

Ed heard a shrill SSSS sound and looked around for the cause. Below he could see some luggage rising off the deck and it reminded him of the swelling Stay Puft Marshmallow Man in the movie Ghostbusters. He realized that the life raft was inflating—and at high-speed.

Ben had darted out of the cabin so quickly that Ed didn’t realize that he was standing behind him on deck.

“Have you got a knife?” Ben yelled over the noise. Ed produced a corkscrew blade that looked trifling for the task and handed it to Ben. “I’m not going to stab it!” Ben said. “Me either!” Ed and Mark shouted.

The raft thrust out, filling the cabin and making the boat groan. Then the force on a fitting’s bolt was so great that it punctured the raft. As the three looked down from the deck, the raft began to deflate. “Otherwise I’m sure it would have lifted the deck right off the boat,” Ed says.

As Bill Murray’s character comments while he watches Mr. Stay Puft threaten New York’s streets, “Well, there’s something you don’t see every day.”

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RACING RESULTS 1ST PORTUGAL TROPHY

May 17-21 / Cascais, Portugal

2ND MARSEILLE TROPHY

June 14-19 / Marseille, France

5TH SARDINIA TROPHY

July 19-24 / Cagliari, Italy

3RD MURCIA TROPHY

August 23-28 / Cartagena, Spain

3RD BARCELONA TROPHY

September 12-17 / Barcelona, Spain

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“WHEN I LOOK DOWN WHILE INSPECTING THE MAST, I AM TOTALLY CONFIDENT TO SEE DOUG AT THE OTHER END OF THE LINE.” GREG GENDELL

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TOILING WITH TRUST & RESPECT

Toiling together on a race boat, no matter how hard the work or bad the weather, doesn’t knit a team together unless the crew members also share some respect and trust. Without those qualities, individuals are slower to step up and step out in the ways necessary for success. They need to feel that they can count on all the other team members.

The professionals on Quantum Racing see that mindset as a big plus for their team in competition.

“That was one of the beauties of the team,” recalls Tommy Burnham, who spent eight consecutive years on the team beginning in 2008. “These are the types of guys who know how to work within a group, know how to do their job, and they do their jobs well. And they trust the guys next to them to do their jobs well.”

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When you believe in people, and when you show that you believe in people, it allows them to perform at their maximum.

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Warwick Fleury concurs. “There’s just great respect for everyone’s ability, and so everyone is just allowed to do their job. There’s total trust and back up.”

Given the mutual trust and respect, a lot of communication—at least of the spoken variety—can become unnecessary on and off the water, according to Ed Baird. “Over and over I was impressed by things that got done without assigning the task because they were the best things for the team.”

When crew members on the water are in synch, the trust and respect can create a kind of calm, even tranquility. “It just happens. The boat goes quiet. And that’s an indication that things are really just happening on their own,” adds Warwick.

For Michele Ivaldi, a memory of such serenity stands out: “We were sailing downwind in 25 kts of breeze and the boat going submarine, but there was a calm awareness that the boat was in the best possible hands in the world. This is how you do it!”

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ALL IN FOR THE FAMILY In Terry Hutchinson’s view, the way team members cover each other’s back makes the team “an extension of family.” “It is a band of brothers and sisters who really work for the higher cause and for each other.”

Romolo Ranieri recognizes it, too: “There is a feeling of being in a family and caring about everyone else,” he says.

That feeling is one of Doug DeVos’s goals and something that he believes is an important element in success.

“I think what stands out for Quantum compared to a lot of the other teams is just the support that Doug gives us and the amount of passion he has for the team,” Matt Cassidy says. “It’s a family affair for him. He loves it and he loves seeing the team’s success.”

A high priority is to allow the team members the time to grow together through a season and reap the results.

“Doug was very understanding of the mistakes and was always supportive,” says Tom. “It shows the long-term vision and understanding of how this whole game works, which can be rare in business and in sailing.”

The family feeling extends to the crew members’ families. “With Doug we commit to crew members for

the full season and fulfill our contracts,” explains Ed Reynolds. “Crew changes shouldn’t have a financial impact on families.”

Because team members tend to stay on from season to season, the crew has little turnover. “I set my working schedule for the season around Quantum Racing first,” explains Greg Gendell, who has been on the team every year since its beginning.

Like family, crew members enjoy doing things for each other without being asked. It’s Mark “Kooch” Koetje acknowledging the birthday of shore team member Jen Schau by taking her out on the chase boat in Florida. And Morgan Larson thanking Kooch and Adam Ostenfeld for “looking after my old man on the chase boat every day in Cagliari!”

Dalton DeVos summed it up this way when asked what thing about Quantum Racing makes his father most proud: “The team, 100% the team. The accomplishments, of course, but the accomplishments don’t come without the team. Those guys are 100% family to my dad and me.”

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I think Doug invests in people.

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Having mutual respect and trust doesn’t mean arguments don’t happen—just that they’re good ones.

“We argue, but one of the things that makes it really good is that we can argue. We all have enough respect for each other that the arguments are just that, they’re taken at face value,” Terry Hutchinson says. “They make us better.”

Good enough. But how does that actually work out in practice?

One day, early in their time sailing together on the team, Terry and Juan Vila were discussing a point about the mast displays while waiting for enough wind to race. Juan grew increasingly frustrated because he felt that Terry refused to admit that Juan was right.

Eventually, Juan was ready to have the argument go away.

“I could agree with you, Terry, but then we would both be wrong,” he said.

Terry turned to Ed Baird. “I think Juan just had a ‘go’ at me.”

“Oh, he definitely had a go at you,” Baird replied, “and in a second language!”

Many arguments on Quantum Racing ended with this quote over the years— respectful but with a clear message.

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It’s the hardest working team I’ve been on. Everybody works hard and wants to be better. There’s a relentless desire to be better and just keep moving forward.

-Brendan Darrer

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That was a crazy day! Doug was driving. The boat becomes so powerful that you have an incredibly narrow groove for the boat to perform in. If you go outside it, you wipe out and things break. Doug did a terrific job of keeping the wheels on.

But it was also the full team. Everyone has a job when it’s windy like that. The team was very strong through things like that—in fact, they reveled in it!

-Ed Baird

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In the Key West regatta, eight boats raced in the 52 class. Over all 10 races, Quantum finished 1st or 2nd and had clinched the regatta on points by the penultimate day. Nevertheless, the team sailed on the final day, tacked on two seconds, earned Boat of the Day honors and defeated runner-up Powerplay by 18.5 points.

The Key West event was also the venue for meetings among the three key stakeholders of the new Super Series–Doug DeVos, the Roemmers family

(Azzurra/Matador) and Niklas Zennström (Rán Racing)–who worked with TP52 Class Manager Rob Weiland to develop the program. While in Key West, Weiland announced the plans for the upcoming Super Series in 2012 and beyond.

“There is strong support and enthusiasm for this structure, not only among owners, but also potential sponsors who have been part of the discussions,” said Weiland. “With class ownership and control, we expect to establish a strong, stable racing program that will continue to expand.”

For its inaugural year, the three stakeholders plus Tony Langley (Gladiator) committed to the full season of five regattas in Spain and Sardinia.

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The Quantum crew welcomed six new members in 2012: Andy Horton (tactician), Juan Vila (navigator), Warwick Fleury (main trimmer), Lorenzo Mazza (upwind trimmer), Chris Welch (mast) and Andrew Turton (shore team). Ed Baird returned as helmsman and Brett Jones as sail designer. Brett also took on a new role as upwind trimmer. Andrew Scott, team veteran and VP of Operations and Quality Control for Quantum Sails, changed positions to handle the runners.

In Barcelona, the site of the first Super Series regatta, Quantum Racing had a shaky start but then took first place in three of the last four races and held the lead going into the final day.

However, the fabled Garbi failed to appear, racing was cancelled and Quantum was declared the winner.

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“We have sailed against these teams a lot and the level is as high as we expected,” Ed Baird said in Barcelona. “The Azzurra guys have a new boat, the same design as ours, and we expected it to be tough. Rán have stepped up their game since last year. I am excited about our boat because there are so many things which we have learned, even in the off season, studying the data and the pictures.”

At the next regatta, the Sardinia Cup in Porto Cervo, Quantum Racing was a point and a half behind but sailed very strong on the final day and took first place again, defeating Azzurra by three points. “It’s challenging racing here. You have to be strong in all sorts of conditions,” said Ed Reynolds after the win.

Entering the Royal Cup in Palma, Quantum had a three-point lead overall. On the first day of racing, the team extended that lead to five points.

On day two, the team won the first race, but in the second, Brett Jones injured his hand while swapping out a jib for a spinnaker and was taken to shore for medical care.

With a loud bang, more misfortune hit Quantum on the last day of racing in Palma. Near gale force winds broke the boat’s headstay ram and headfoil and tore its jib. Although the Quantum shore team repaired the damage in time for the day’s second race, the team’s edge in the event was lost.

Despite a second place finish in Palma, Quantum Racing still held an overall series lead of six points over Azzurra to start the season’s final regatta, the Valencia Cup. Daniel Fong replaced Brett Jones as trimmer for the event.

On the first day, Quantum Racing’s lead was cut to just three points. By the second to last day, Azzurra had built a two-point lead. On the final day of racing, Azzurra was first across the finish line, winning its first regatta of the season and the overall series title. While Quantum claimed second overall in the inaugural Super Series, the crew tasted the bitterness of a lead that had drifted away under Valencia’s bright September sky.

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Mark Koetje relishes the fruit of the team’s come-from-behind effort to beat Azzurra in its home waters of Porto Cervo.

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Private homes were rented to serve as “crew houses,” creating a residential setting. The proximity of the team’s U.S. residents to Florida meant that more families of crew members could make the trip.

“Doug is a family guy and he’s always welcoming of other families,” says Andrew Scott. His family spent four days with the team in South Beach. “My family was welcome at the crew house for dinner every night.

My girls loved it—they ended up clearing the tables and helping the kitchen staff.”

A food crew led by Dave “Super Dave” Wright and Kerry Clougher impressed team members with their skills and commitment. “Dave is such a passionate food creator, and together we shared a vision to provide restaurant-quality food, up to the highest standard we could. And we had a lot of fun doing it,” Kerry recalls.

But the rented homes didn’t necessarily have the equipment to meet the culinary goal. “The first year that Kerry and I cooked in Florida we learned that the houses aren’t well-equipped—maybe one fork, three knives, two plates and a blender that didn’t work,” Dave says. So Dave acquired a two-axle trailer to haul everything that might be needed—extra ovens, smokers, plates, everything.

Meals in Florida were served home style and crew lunches were handmade; everything was done with a personal touch. “In the Med, the food was just delivered to the boat and you didn’t know who was making it. In Florida, you could go to Dave and Kerry and say, ‘That sandwich was awesome yesterday.

Can you do those again?’ They were happy to oblige you,” Andrew says. Kerry remembers that “the crew members would come in and say, ‘Super Dave, what do we have for dinner tonight?’”

Every day the menu was different. “The challenge was that it’s not like you have the Sysco food truck pulling up out front,” Dave explains. “We had to go to three, four, five different grocery stores a day. We had to think ahead, make sure the quantities were available, find out what’s fresh. But Mark Koetje and Doug allowed us the freedom to be creative.”

And the kitchen had to stay open late, Dave says. “No telling what might happen to the boat or sails and how late the shore team guys would need to work at night.

We wanted to make sure they got something to eat.”

Pork was a favorite. “If it had pork in it, they were happy,” Kerry says. “We could cook 10 pounds of bacon in the morning and it would not be enough. We laughed about that and thought the team’s mascot should be a pot belly pig or the owl in New Zealand called the morepork because its call sounds like it is saying ‘more pork.’“ 2 0 12

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2012 RACING RESULTS 1ST

QUANTUM KEY WEST RACE WEEK January 15-20 / Key West, Florida

1ST TROFEO CONDE DE GODÓ May 24-27 / Barcelona, Spain

1ST AUDI SARDINIA CUP

June 11-17 / Porto Cervo, Italy

2ND ROYAL CUP

July 10-14 / Palma, Spain

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AUDI VALENCIA CUP

September 18-22 / Valencia, Spain

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F L O R I D A H O S T S T W O E A R LY E V E N T S F O R T H E T P 5 2 S E A S O N

The season opened with the Quantum-sponsored Key West Race Week in January followed by the 52 World Championship in Miami. The Florida venues brought some changes to food and lodging, most notably the opportunity for crew members to get up close and personal with chefs de cuisine Dave “Super Dave” Wright, Kerry Clougher and Jen Schau, whose works were much appreciated. The venues’ proximity allowed some American members of the team to bring along more family and friends than is the norm in Europe. Doug DeVos was able to drive in both regattas.

In the Key West event, shifty conditions and many high-speed runs gave teams multiple opportunities to move up–or back–in the pack.

After taking its first win in race five, Quantum Racing was in a tie for second overall. In the ninth race a headsail failure in the early minutes

decommissioned the sail for the remainder of that race as well as the 10th and final race. The team finished fourth for the event.

In Miami, the very close competition among teams continued.

Quantum Racing won the tenth and final race, taking third overall in the Championship. But the winning margins were as small as they could be.

Quantum was one point behind second place Azzurra, which in turn was one point behind World Champion, Rán Racing.

“We would like to be leading but we are excited about the boat and are looking forward to the European legs of the 52 Super Series,” Ed Reynolds said. “Nobody loves sailing more than Doug DeVos and we had hoped to do better for him, but finishing in Miami with a win in the last race was really good.”

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BACK TO THE MED Quantum Racing’s return to the Med coincided with Terry Hutchinson’s return as tactician working with helmsman Ed Baird. New to the team was strategist Jordi Calafat, an Olympic gold medalist and America’s Cup winner. Jordi grew up in Palma, won his Olympic medal in Barcelona and had considerable experience in Ibiza and the other Mediterranean racing venues.

The team embarked on unprecedented success that season: back-to-back-to-back wins in Barcelona, Ibiza and Palma. But the racing was close and the leaders’ margins often small.

After five races in Barcelona, Quantum was in third, three points behind leader Azzurra. In the final race, Azzurra finished seventh, ensuring Quantum’s first place in the event.

In tight racing in the Med, Quantum swept three of four 2013 regattas in its three-year-old boat.

In Ibiza, a new venue for the 52 program, Quantum led in the first race from the windward mark to the finish line. On the event’s third day, the 4th of July, the team had two wins and a fourth yet its point total was matched by Azzurra’s. While the coastal race

was taken by Phoenix, Quantum won the penultimate race and ultimately the Royal Cup. In Palma, under a hot Majorcan sun, Quantum opened with a win in the coastal race ahead of second place Azzurra. The team went on to win five straight and six of eleven to take the Copa del Rey. Entering the season finale at the Week of the Straits in Porto Cervo, the team had a 34-point overall lead in the series with Azzurra holding second by a narrow margin. At this event Ian Moore stepped in as navigator, replacing Juan Vila, who left for the America’s Cup in San Francisco. In its home waters off the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, Azzurra could not be stopped from winning the event by three points, denying Quantum a clean sweep but not the big prize.

Quantum notched the Championship by 31 points.

“We have gone three for four this summer in a threeyear-old boat,” Terry Hutchinson said. “That is a great testament to Quantum Sails, to our team and to our shore crew.”

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KEEPING IT SIMPLE At the Palma regatta, Super Series reporter Andi Robertson did a video interview with Quantum Racing’s Mark “Kooch” Koetje.

Among the topics discussed were Mark’s long list of team responsibilities and what his typical day at a regatta is like.

“Where do you get the most satisfaction out of your job, from executive level down to chase boat driver? Where are you happiest?” Robertson asked.

“Winning,” said Mark, adding that “We like to say that we’ve never lost a race from the coach boat.”

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One battle that springs to mind is coastal race three in Porto Cervo in 2013. Bomb Alley, rocks everywhere, 25 knots of wind.

A4. We led at the top but the lead changed about four times.

On the final run Azzurra’s Vasco went slightly too far on his last gybe and we did two quick gybes in 25 kts to take the inside and win the race. I still grin when I think about it!

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A STAG SURPRISE IN SWEDEN

In this case, what happened at the bachelor party did not stay at the party.

Before and after, everyone knew.

After 12 years of dating, Matt Cassidy was finally ready to marry his girlfriend in August 2013. And his friends had been waiting a long time for his bachelor party, so it would need to be an epic event.

The week before the Ibiza regatta, Matt was racing on Chris Blake’s RC44 team in Marstrand, Sweden. Blake plotted a party for the last night. Thick as thieves, Terry Hutchinson and Ed Reynolds, who were also in Marstrand, agreed that Matt could be a little late getting to Ibiza. Instead of leaving in the evening, Matt would fly out the following day— but he didn’t know that.

With bags packed, Matt and Brett Jones got in the car for the ride to the airport that evening. After a few minutes, Matt’s suspicions were aroused when the driver turned around and headed back to the hotel for a greeting outside by a cheering crew.

In Ibiza’s scorching heat the next day, everyone on the boat could see that Matt was one sodden stag. Sweatsoaked and face down in spinnaker, he could not keep up with the bagging.

Crew members took turns looking down the hatch and laughing.

“It’s the only time that Terry’s offered to pack a sail for me,” Matt says.

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“It is a great group. People have come and gone, but the core values never change. It’s always been ‘let’s just do our best and get better tomorrow and keep on improving.’

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4TH QUANTUM KEY WEST RACE WEEK January 20-25 / Key West, Florida

3 RD TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP March 5-9 / Miami, Florida

1ST TROFEO CONDE DE GODÓ May 23-26 / Barcelona, Spain

1ST ROYAL CUP

July 2-6 / Ibiza, Spain

1ST COPA DEL REY MAPFRE

July 29-August 3 / Palma, Spain

2ND AUDI WEEK OF THE STRAITS

September 10-14 / Porto Cervo, Italy

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“WITHOUT ED REYNOLDS MAKING THIS COME TOGETHER, I DON’T KNOW THAT THE TEAM WOULD HAVE HAD THE SAME SUCCESS. HE CHALLENGED THE TEAM, THE DESIGNERS, THE BOAT BUILDERS. HE MADE SURE THAT THE TEAM WAS GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO ITS BEST.” ED BAIRD

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TOP DOWN, BOTTOM UP AND ALL AROUND “

Some people debate at length about which leadership style—top down or bottom up—is more effective. Savvier types recognize that such a choice is simplistic.

Energy and ideas should flow in both directions all the time. Some things come down from the top, some float up from the bottom, others in both directions.

Things ripple and permeate.

“You need to have the right attitude and support, and those things come from all directions,” believes Ed Baird. “They come from the crew members, who need to have the right attitude and skillset to cope with adversity and with each other.

They also come from Doug, Ed and others who allow people the freedom to explore the best way to get things done.”

“It was very important to have that and not have one person saying, ‘No, it must be this way.’ That made us a team that was very strong together,” Baird adds.

Some goals come from the top as well as the support to achieve them.

“I think it starts from the top with Doug and his enthusiasm and support of the team, to Ed Reynolds, who is a huge part of the team, and Terry’s intensity and brilliance,” says Brendan Darrer. “It’s a big team with lots of different people and everybody contributing to the only agenda: to be better and try to win.”

Adrenaline levels are always at their peak when performing tactics for Terry Hutch.

-Morgan Larson

Brett Jones adds, “The support from Ed, Doug DeVos and Kooch is pretty phenomenal. And Ed R’s attitude is a big motivator. When you compare them to managers of other teams, you see how much they bring. And Doug is just another one of the boys.”

A model from the top for how to win is also clear, says coach James Lyne.

“Terry often says that we have a style of sailing, that we’re going to do the right thing. We’re not going to get involved in protests and things like that. We’re not going to win dirty, we’re going to win with our heads high. That comes down from Doug and from Terry, that we win in a certain way. And when we lose, we lose the same way.”

“As a leader, I think Terry Hutchinson sets a bar very high for the team to perform,” says Marty Winter. “It brings up my work to a very high level to get to the goal.”

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INDIVIDUALS CHALLENGING THEMSELVES Challenging themselves to do better doesn’t only come down from the top. Individuals pursue their own goals to get better.

“Everyone is challenged to up their game,” explains Brett. An example is the process of designing and making new sails. “There was never one sail that we just copied and pasted. I would have ideas, Warwick and others would have ideas, and we worked together.

We were always looking to improve on each iteration,” Brett says. “Other teams don’t have that interaction with each other.”

Solutions bubble up from all individuals. In 2011, at the first event of the year in Cascais, team members knew that the current and tides were important factors

but there wasn’t much usable data. “So Kooch [Mark Koetje], Tom Burnham and I went out late evenings and early mornings to take tide readings so we could make our own personal tide charts good for the next couple of race times,” recalls Adrian Stead. “It meant our lay lines were just a bit more accurate for tide mark approaches.

No other teams were out there taking readings.”

And there is a lot of individual pride in correcting mistakes and doing well. “Even if the team doesn’t say it out loud, you personally felt your mistake, and you personally would make sure that didn’t ever happen again,” says Andrew Scott. “So there was a lot of personal pride in doing well, and not allowing your mistake from yesterday to permeate your attitude for the next day and bring the team down.”

INFORMATION AND SUPPORT ARE SHARED ALL AROUND To perform consistently at a high level, Quantum Racing’s crew members are dedicated to communication, from post-race team meetings, after-the-regatta wrap-ups, daily debriefs with the coach boat crew and, in recent years, meetings with James Lyne to dive into his data.

In Dalton DeVos’s view, the communication is even more extensive when his dad is present. “He is always asking, ‘Do you want me to do more of this? Do you want me to do more of that?’ I think that causes everyone to talk a little bit more, to think out loud. The crew is so good, they’ve been sailing with each other for so long, that they generally know what everybody’s going to do next.

But when they think out loud, it puts a little edge on anticipation and I think it elevates the team.”

Carbon wizard, Simon McLean, working into the night.

When Doug is not present, the communication and support are still strong. “He writes emails to each one of us,” says Matt Cassidy. “And they’re not like ‘Congratulations, guys. Signed, Doug.’ They’re a paragraph long. To get that kind of support from overseas and from the owner makes everyone want to perform that much better.”

Terry Hutchinson agrees. ”Doug is a unique guy because he comes with a certain amount of positive energy that is an intangible, that you can’t quantify in any performance measure,” Terry says. “The cool thing about that is, whether he is steering the boat or packing things up at the end of the day, he is not afraid to get his hands dirty and lead by example. It’s easy to follow that type of leadership.”

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The crew members on the chase boat and the shore team are essential to Quantum Racing’s success. Their round-the-clock initiative and attention to details support the team every day. “It was a very calming sight,“ says Ed Baird, “when you saw the chase boat come alongside and you knew that you had everything you needed.“

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With a reduction in class crew weight for IRC trim from 1,200 to 1,130 kgs, most boats raced with one less crew member in 2014.

Two European crews—Azzurra and Rán Racing—came to January’s Key West Race Week, where Doug DeVos steered for Quantum Racing with Juan Vila as navigator, Ed Baird as strategist and Terry Hutchinson as tactician.

Archrival Azzurra began training in Key West the week before Christmas, as the team had done the year before when it captured the U.S. championship.

After nine races and five wins in Key West, Quantum had an overall event lead of four points, enough to take the regatta in the tenth and final race with a third-place finish. “The team was really dedicated and wanted to win this one for Doug, so there are happy people in the Quantum camp right now,” Ed Reynolds said.

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Azzurra have been our rivals since the days of Matador and our guys have the utmost respect for them. Anytime they get lit up, they are great sailors, well prepared, everything about them is good.

GRINDING ITALIAN STYLE

-Ed Reynolds

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MARCH MADNESS IN MIAMI

CLUBBED IN CAPRI

Wild swings of weather were the challenge when the fleet reached Miami.

Quantum had several crew changes in Capri.

On the bow Matt Cassidy replaced the injured Greg Gendell. Also in a new role was Tommy Burnham, who replaced Jordi Calafat as strategist.

In light, hard-to-read winds, Quantum won the first two races with Ed Baird as helmsman for the event. “We went out with the objective of coming off the water with six points or less, and we came off with four,” Terry Hutchinson said. But when some of the heaviest winds of any recent TP52 regattas arrived—westerly breezes reaching 31 knots— Azzurra began to assert itself. After a wet ride in the sixth race, it had a one-point lead over Quantum.

Conditions on the penultimate day returned to something more expected for Miami with gentle 8-kt winds but sweltering heat. On a scorching final day, Quantum bested Azzurra by a big margin in both races, taking first place by eight points and the U.S. championship by 14 points.

At the end of the Florida regattas, Terry was pleased with the team’s performance. “The thing that stands out is how good Warwick, Jonesy, Lorenzo, Ed and Juan are as a speed team nucleus.” Still, Ed Reynolds proved prophetic when he said that the team needed to sharpen its game in the lighter air expected in Capri.

After the first two races, which were in light air, Quantum had a narrow lead. Capri then became a waiting game of wilted flags as the fleet hoped for fit winds to resume racing. The coastal race and one day of windward-leeward races were lost. When breezes returned on the third day, they were not kind to Quantum, which finished third overall. The competition had been close throughout, with five different boats taking a win in the six completed races.

“We did not put our best foot forward at this event even though Ed started really well,” Terry said.

“There were things that let us down tactically.

It’s good to get our teeth kicked in now and then; it makes us come back stronger for the next one.

We are looking forward to Porto Cervo.”

Interview by the 52 Super Series reporter at the start of the Porto Cervo regatta.

HOW IS THE LIFE OF AN ITALIAN ABOARD QUANTUM RACING?

I had some luck two years ago to join this project. I have been in this since then and it is great to be on the Circuit.

Outside of the America’s Cup, this is the best racing in a high-level design.

I’m very happy, I have managed to have fun at the same time, as well as the pleasure of being able to work with a group of professionals at the highest level.

WHAT IS YOUR FEELING AFTER CAPRI?

In Capri, the light breeze was a real test for the boats. Some boats there were more optimized for IRC, had longer keels and were starting the season with new sails, all raising the competition. We hope that here in Sardinia there will be a few days of wind so that we can see a more uniform level across all the boats.

ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A FOURTH WORLD TITLE?

Unfortunately, I was not on board for the three previous victories, so I hope we can sail to our potential and I can get one too!

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In Key West, it was down to the wire in the 52 Class with Quantum Racing and Rán both capable of winning. “You always want to be in the hunt going into the last day.

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Nothing would be a better balm for Capri’s disappointment than a win over Azzurra in its home waters, especially given the memories of the previous year’s dueling between the rocks and hard places of Bomb Alley.

Two weeks of pent-up frustration following Capri propelled a slingshot start by Ed Baird in the opening coastal race. Despite holding the lead from start to finish, no one took the win for granted. ”When Azzurra is breathing down your neck in their home waters, you know it’s never over.” After a second coastal and then three, windward-leeward races on Friday the 13th, Quantum had a two-point overall lead going into the last day of racing. But the wind never came and Quantum was awarded the championship based on the previous day’s tally.

“It has been a long regatta for five races, a really long regatta. But these marathons are grind fests,” Terry said. “Every day we go out to prove something to ourselves. And that energy carries over to how we do our day, and how we manage ourselves, the crispness of what we do. ” Having slumped to fourth place in Porto Cervo, Azzurra found itself in the same place that Quantum had been after Capri—eager for a rematch and revenge in the next regatta.

QUANTUM’S BIG SQUEEZE IN IBIZA In Porto Cervo, Quantum’s crew had more changes.

Michel Ivaldi replaced Juan Vila, who had previously committed to Volvo. Tom Burnham stepped up as strategist. Palma-based Jordi Calafat joined the crew on the coach boat. “The subtlety of the Palma Bay breeze is tricky so the big emphasis is on consistency,” Jordi said.

After two days and four races, Quantum had the lead but the competition was tight. In the coastal race, Quantum and Azzurra became locked in a duel that ended with the former in fourth and the latter in fifth.

At the dock Terry said he would rather have focused on gaining a top spot rather than jockeying with his closest opponent.

The eighth race was so close that neither the Quantum nor Rán crews could tell who won at the finish but the win was ultimately given to Rán. After the ninth race, Quantum’s lead was halved to three points. On the final day, with temperatures the hottest so far of the summer, the tension was at a rolling boil. Quantum quickly jumped to a lead in the first race, squashing Rán’s hopes with a first then a second in the last race, taking the cup by four points.

Entering the Circuit finale in Ibiza, Quantum enjoyed an eight-point lead that the team knew could evaporate quickly. Crew fatigue was also a concern.

“A few of us will be coming off two events heading into Ibiza and so we need to monitor our energy levels,” Terry said. “But at this point in the season, if we are not exhausted by the end, then we are not working hard enough!”

After five races, the team had an eight-point lead but its momentum drained away in the coastal race with a fifth-place finish. “Sometimes these coastal races just rise up and bite you,” Ed Reynolds said. The seventh race proved lucky. Quantum took first and had the cumulative points—81 to Azzurra’s 96—to win the championship. Not content to stop there, the team did enough in the eighth and final race to win the Royal Cup. Dockside after the win, Ed Baird said: “One of the super strengths of this team is that everyone comes down here every day saying ‘How can I do it better today than yesterday?’ When you fight with that kind of mentality on your side, you just never allow yourself to back up, to do your job any less well than before.”

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1ST QUANTUM KEY WEST RACE WEEK January 19-24 / Key West, Florida

1ST US 52 CHAMPIONSHIP March 5-9 / Miami, Florida

3 RD ROLEX CAPRI SAILING WEEK May 20-24 / Capri, Italy

1ST AUDI TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

June 10-14 / Porto Cervo, Italy

1ST 33 COPA DEL REY MAPFRE August 4-9 / Palma, Spain

1ST ZENITH ROYAL CUP MARINA IBIZA September 17-21 / Ibiza, Spain

52 SUPER SERIES ATLANTIC CUP

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In the fleet of 12 boats from nine nations, nine boats were new builds, five of them designs from Botin Partners, including the Quantum boat, which was built by Longitude Cero in Burriana and supervised by crew member Jared “Beach” Henderson. Alegre was a sister hull from the same builder that season. As the teams readied the new boats, it was clear that the

advantage between winner and loser would be razor thin.

The boats proved faster, particularly upwind. The box rules called for displacements of 7,000 kgs, down 200 kgs from the previous year, and a new low of 1,130 kgs for maximum crew weight. Mainsail area was up to 98.5 square meters, spinnakers to 270 square meters, and draft to 3.5 meters. Bowsprit was extended to 9 meters, significantly beyond the traditional length of 7.67 meters used for spinnaker poles.

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There were some amusing theories about why we did the new graphic.

-Ed Reynolds

IN THE EYE OF THE VORTEX

The daring statement was dubbed “the vortex,” and even Ed admits that it took a little time— and courage—for him to get used to it.

“There were some amusing theories about why we did the new graphic,” said Ed. His favorites were that Quantum Racing was trying to disguise its sail shapes from competitors

or mesmerize them with a visual maelstrom.

“I wish we were that clever,” he laments.

But in fact, Ed was concerned about whether the vortex would play eye tricks on the trimmers.

After some deliberation, everyone agreed that there would be no issues, plus VSPARS would continue to validate the shapes. Still, the execution had to be right.

“Every jib on the boat is used with a different mast rake to optimize performance, so each jib has a different graphic to make it look perfect with the rig configuration,” Ed says. Scott Brunner, head of Quantum Sail’s IT department, created custom templates to ensure that the graphics looked right at all wind speeds.

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Because he believed other teams had begun to copy the bold Quantum graphics, especially the “bow wave,” Ed Reynolds was looking for a new design. He returned to renowned Dutch designer Bas van der Heide, who had done the original design, and asked for ideas for the new boat. Bas sent only one with a note that said, “Quantum has earned the right to go crazy.”

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OPENING IN VAL ENCIA The first regatta of the season was the Ford Vignale Valencia, where Malvarossa Beach was a familiar sight to five of Quantum’s crew. Ed Baird, Juan Vila, Warwick Fleury, Lorenza Mazza and Piet van Nieuwenhuijzen had won the 2007 America’s Cup there on Alinghi.

New to the crew and TP52 in 2015 was 22-year-old Dalton DeVos, who received some coaching from Ed Baird and rotated with his dad on the helm during four of the season’s events. Dalton’s first race was in Valencia. “It was wonderful to share my passion for sailing with Dalton and the rest of the team that is my extended family,” Doug said.

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2015 RACING RESULTS 6 TH FORD VIGNALE VALENCIA SAILING WEEK May 19-23 / Valencia, Spain

2ND SETTIMANA DELLE BOCCHE June 9-13 / Porto Cervo, Italy

6 TH TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PUERTO PORTALS July 14-18 / Mallorca

1ST 34 COPA DEL REY MAPFRE August 4-18 / Mallorca

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“YOU KNOW IF YOU PUT ON YOUR QUANTUM SHIRT, YOU’RE JOINING A TEAM OF VERY TALENTED PEOPLE, BOTH ON THE BOAT AND ASHORE, ALL STRIVING TO BE BETTER. WE’RE ALWAYS TRYING TO GET AN EDGE ON THE COMPETITION.” ADRIAN STEAD

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DRIVING HARD WITH THE DATA In Grand Prix racing, winning can be the difference between data dilettantes and data aficionados.

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Ed Reynolds likes to say that sailing is 100% measurable. In 2011 Quantum Racing began to mine the measurable with new data tools, a pursuit that has continued ever since. It’s the perfect complement to a team that seeks continuous improvement.

Quantum Racing adopted the VSPARS sail and rig vision system in 2011 and immediately began tweaking it for more impact. “I think placement of the cameras was one of the biggest changes that we made,” says Andrew Scott, who worked on the implementation. “In the past, everything was mounted to decks so that the cameras would be staring straight up at the sails. To make the system easier to use and less obtrusive, we came up with the idea to mount the main cameras on the cockpit walls.”

In the early days, the VSPARS data was saved for review at the end of the day. However, the benefits of real-time display soon became apparent.

The mainsail trimmer began using a PDA to see live data on the sails.

Then the team began setting targets for the sail shapes under many different conditions. “A trimmer could say, ‘Hey, you’re flat compared to normal, and the boat is slow. We need to try something a little different,’” Andrew remembers.

The results were exhilarating. “I’ll never forget the first day Skip started asking Jonesy for the depths on the water in Marseille,” Kevin Hall recalled in 2011. “It’s a moment every techno-sailor dreams of because the electronics and lines of code and late nights of debugging are meaningless without a sailor or sailors who have the patience and the vision to get to the point where those things are cashed in for real-live boat speed.”

The data grew but also the time necessary to comb through it for valuable tactical nuggets.

UPPING THE GAME When James Lyne joined the team in 2015, Quantum Racing took its use of data to the next level.

With academic training in data analysis and Olympic sailing experience, James brought some skills to the table that few others have. “Often the people who are analyzing the data aren’t sailors, and the sailors aren’t data analysts,” he says, “so there can be a disconnect. The data needs massaging because there’s always little hidden trends in there.” At day’s end, the volume of data can be a million points over a dozen charts. One chart, he says, can have 20,000 lines of data with more than 60 headings across the top for variables like boatspeed and pitch acceleration rates.

James’ routine involves watching from the coach boat and talking to the crew members each time they come off the water about how it felt.

Then he compares that information to the data. Do the two views match or are they different? When there’s a match, the team may target the settings; when it’s a mismatch, when the sailors thought things were OK but the performance data was not, then James probes deeper. “Why did we end up there? What did it feel like when we were there? And how do we avoid being there again?”

It typically takes James four to six hours to prepare for a team debrief the morning after. To prep the team for the morning meeting, he sends out a report overnight.

Without data there are only opinions; without opinions and conjectures, there is only data with no context to guide tactics. Quantum Racing has been committed to working both sides for the tiny incremental gains that, in aggregate, create big winning margins.

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WHY DOES ED REYNOLDS WEEP WHEN HE WATCHES MONEYBALL? Because of the data, baby!

The movie is a true story (well, based on a true story) about the Oakland A’s baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane, who is played by Brad Pitt (Brad is Ed’s alter ego, you know). With his team beaten down by competitors, Beane decides to take a new approach to player evaluation: follow the data. His assistant (Peter Brand, in real life) uses his Yale economics degree to analyze player data. The results challenge old-fashioned pros whose evaluations rely on instinct and experience.

They also make Billy’s team into a winner.

Sailing is a physical science, Ed believes. But it has traditionally been led by the strong opinions of the sailors with the most experience and longest résumés, not unlike the role of alpha individuals in other sports and human ventures. And despite the contribution that the data has made to the team’s success, it can still be an uphill battle to put it to use.

“I did an interview in Scarlino a few years ago when I was asked about how the data was working for the team,” Ed recalls. “I said it’s amazing. When we have a meeting, the crew members there can collectively represent dozens of America’s Cup wins and world championships. And a guy will express an opinion and James Lyne will look at him and say, ‘I know you think that’s true, but you are wrong and here’s why.’”

Ed believes that some of Quantum Racing’s competitors have been ill-equipped to compete with the team on the data, but as Billy Beane says in the movie: “When your enemy is making mistakes, don’t interrupt him.”

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“It felt pretty horrible not to win last year,” he said. “But we have such a great group of guys—no complaints, no excuses. And we could so easily have been fourth. So we are all motivated and ready to get back on the race course and do our very best work.”

Crew changes for the season included the addition of Ian “Soapy” Moore as navigator, Rodney Ardern in the pit and James “Daggy” Dagg as jib trimmer. Brett Jones moved from the boat to the coach boat to capitalize on his eyes and ears from a different perspective.

James Lyne returned as coach with his data-driven approach, but this year Platoon was also outfitted with Quantum sails. Both crews shared all of James’ data and benefited from common debriefs and morning meetings.

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“It’s always wonderful to win Key West. What the whole team does to prepare the boat is outstanding,” Doug said. “It’s always dialed in perfectly for the conditions. Driving this boat is a dream because you don’t have to worry about anything but driving.”

The team’s momentum rolled onward into the Med. Quantum won May’s practice regatta in Palma despite having missed an earlier training week in Valencia. It then took first blood with a win in Scarlino’s first race. In the second, the team showed its hallmark consistency when it moved from fifth on the first beat to a third at the finish and a four-point overall lead. The Bronenosec crew—dubbed the czars of the coastal—took the 28-mile race on the Golfo di Follonica but Quantum remained in first overall.

Percentage sailing kept the crew going forward in the fleet, earning podium places even when they were not among the top three at the first mark. Finishing no worse than fourth over eight races, Quantum won Scarlino by six points.

In its home waters of Porto Cervo, Azzurra hoped to end Quantum’s run of four straight regatta wins that had begun with the previous season’s Sardinia event. But the team continued its winning ways, now with Doug at the helm, who hadn’t raced since January.

“No matter what you do, you can’t ever get a feel in practice for what it is like in a real race. With the closeness of the racing, with boats around you, just trying to do maneuvers, the dynamic is different,” Doug said. “And you are trying to think through things rather than just trying to feel it. After some coaching following the first race, I felt better in the second.”

The overall lead in Porto Cervo was changing with every race in the early days. Then Quantum began to build a solid lead with its consistency, even after a trespass at the start line, which dropped the boat to tenth at the top mark but fighting back to fourth. “We were lucky to come from a bad position there and get back into it,” strategist Ed Baird said. “Terry and Doug did a great job. The goal is always to pass the next boat.”

The team’s efforts resulted in a first-place finish.

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After the second day, Quantum was in a tie for first, now with Azzurra, then pulled away in the coastal race with better reads by Doug around the rocky point of Illetas. The team won the regatta by 12 points. It had been in first place each day from the regatta’s beginning to end.

In Mahón, the story that does not get old was retold. Quantum won the official practice and was atop the standings by three points at the end of the first day, then by 13 points the second day and 17 points after the third. Azzurra’s Vasco Vascotto said, “It is really, really tough. I think I aged ten years today. We need Quantum Racing to be making mistakes, but they are doing a fantastic job.”

On the fourth day, thunder struck. A black flag pinned 13 points on the team. Terry later said of that day’s debrief, “Ed felt incredibly disappointed that he had let us down, but there

is nobody better in the world. It was important to emphasize that we win as a team and we lose as a team. How you respond is key.”

As had happened so many times before, the team’s response was potent. On the final day in Mahón, Quantum closed out the regatta with two fifth places, taking the win with 10 points over Azzurra.

With a series lead of 67 points heading to Cascais, the team could envision not only the series championship but also a straight flush of five regatta wins. “This has been a really epic season and we want to finish strong,” Ed Reynolds said. “And let’s be clear, our team does not sandbag. We respect our opposition way too much. We want to afford them the chance to beat us at our best. They expect nothing less and we expect nothing less.”

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-Guillermo Parada, Azzurra skipper in Mahón

Azzurra, the 2015 season champ, was certainly not giving up. It won the first two races in Cascais, then captured the fifth. But it was not enough to stop Quantum from taking the 2016 championship with two days to spare. Azzurra did deny Quantum’s hopes for a fifth regatta win, however, as the Italian crew took Cascais by eight points.

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1ST QUANTUM KEY WEST RACE WEEK January 17-22 / Key West, Florida

1ST SCARLINO CUP

May 25-29 / Tuscany, Italy

1ST AUDI SETTIMANA DELLE BOCCHE June 28-July 2 / Porto Cervo, Italy

1ST PUERTO PORTALS SAILING WEEK July 25-29 / Puerto Portals, Spain

1ST TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP September 14-18 / Mahรณn, Spain

2ND EGNOS CASCAIS CUP

October 11-15 / Cascais, Portugal

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This season also marked the largest lineup of boats outfitted with Quantum Sails, as Interlodge, Platoon and Gladiator were in the fold. The four teams got together for a week of pre-holiday practice in December, an open book exercise of shared information and coaching from James Lyne.

“We are in a great place for the rest of the year to develop speed because the boats will be able to talk ‘apples to apples’ between each other,” James said after the practice week. “We can now easily replicate good settings across the four-boat testing program.”

With Ed Baird’s move to tactician on Gladiator, Bora Gulari joined Quantum Racing in the role of helmsman or strategist depending on the availability of Doug DeVos to drive. Ed Reynolds explained: “We have made some changes to the boat and the rigging and some system

upgrades, but integrating Bora will be one of the most critical challenges.

We are fortunate to have Doug steering in Key West, where we won last year with him on the helm.”

The team’s first win of the season came in Key West’s fourth race, which began with a battle between Quantum, Azzurra and Sled for the pin end. A mid-regatta slump pushed the team back in the fleet before it bounced back. After the ninth of 10 races, Quantum was locked in a three-way tie with Azzurra and Platoon for second, two points behind the leader Provezza. But in the tenth the team left its nearest rivals five places behind, snatching the regatta win by six points.

Nevertheless, many teams left Key West thinking that they had what it takes to win. Harm Müller-Spreer of Platoon, which took second place, said: “For us the good news is that I’m not expecting a season like last year where Quantum is so far ahead of everyone and only a few guys are fighting for second, third and fourth.” Indeed, the four boats with Quantum sails collectively won eight of 10 races in Key West. And six boats finished within two points of Platoon.

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-Bora Gulari, on his early experience with the team

IN MIAMI, MORE CLOSE FINISHES

Quantum also won the fifth race, but once again the team had a mid-regatta slump on a Wednesday, prompting Ed Reynolds to say “We are asking that we no longer race on Wednesdays.” And while the team recovered to take second in the penultimate race, that was only enough for a fourth place in Miami. Platoon was again second.

Said Terry Hutchinson, “Miami was not the standard we were after, not by any stretch. We will be working on everything, across the board before the start in Scarlino and plan to have some good practice. We need to start better. We need to be faster on the open course and be smoother around the corners.”

Moving to the Med, the fleet arrived in Scarlino expecting shifty conditions and was not surprised.

“It is a really difficult race course, puffy and shifty,” said Ed Reynolds. “But our team has always been good at shifting gears.”

With Bora at the helm but Terry steering the starts, Quantum again won the first race, then the fourth.

But Platoon’s consistency put it in first place in the event. When asked the secret of Platoon’s performance, mainsheet trimmer Dirk De Ridder said: “I am actually not too sure if there is a secret.

We’re just trying very hard, and we’re working very hard with Quantum and Gladiator—the Quantum Sails boats—and definitely that helps a lot trying to be consistent and fast.”

Quantum Racing had a comfortable win in the fifth race, the 26-mile coastal, but Platoon remained on top by two points. And that was the way the regatta ended with Platoon first and Quantum second—a 1, 2 for the Quantum Sails “scuderia.”

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In Bora’s debut at the helm, Quantum won the first race in Miami in 15-20 kts of breeze and a churning sea. But the competition was keen, with Azzurra closing to a boat length on the final run.

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In the first race Quantum mistakenly crossed the finish line twice and paid a price for it: 12 points.

But the team showed its trademark recovery skills by winning the second race and eventually making its way to the top of the standings after the fifth.

In the final race, the team was still in contention until a gear failure and a broken forestay strop forced its withdrawal with only minutes remaining.

Terry lamented, “I was bound and determined that what happened on the first day would not determine the outcome of the regatta. It didn’t.

The gear did.”

Going into Puerto Portals, four different teams had won each of the season’s four regattas to date. After Puerto Portals, a fifth team had taken a win—Provezza, its first regatta win in six years on the TP52 Circuit. Quantum had a strong finish, winning the eighth and ninth races, for a secondplace finish two points behind Provezza.

Terry pulled no punches about the team’s need to get off to a faster start in Menorca than it had in Puerto Portals. “That was our Achilles heel,” he said.

For the first time since the 2012 launch of the Super Series, three teams were in close contention as the fleet arrived in Mahón for the last regatta, with Azzurra in first with three points over Platoon and Quantum three points behind Platoon. This year, a season champ would not be decided with days to spare.

Quantum opened with two bad starts but showed its undiminished chippiness by fighting back. In the third race the team got the start it wanted but sailed into a hole on the last run. A similar start in the fourth race had the same conclusion, with the team snared on the wrong side. Said strategist Michele Ivaldi, “We had had such a good race up to the moment we made one mistake and it cost us six positions.”

The season’s champ was still far from decided on the final day until Azzurra’s first place on countback was just enough to win the regatta and take the Circuit title by seven points over Platoon.

Gladiator took second in the regatta.

It was a season in which any mistake seemed to wreck a team’s chances on the shoals of the standings. “Azzurra set a great standard this year,” Terry said. “But it has been great for Quantum, for Platoon and Tony Langley’s Gladiator sitting tied for the top here.”

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In Porto Cervo, Doug returned to drive for the rest of the season. “We are delighted to have Doug back. He brings so much positive energy and stability to the team,” said Ed Reynolds. Sean Clarkson also rejoined the team from Bermuda after the America’s Cup.

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Scarlino is well known for shifty condition, “but our team has always been good at shifting gears,” Ed Reynolds says.

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RACING RESULTS 1ST QUANTUM KEY WEST RACE WEEK January 16-20 / Key West, Florida

4TH MIAMI ROYAL CUP

March 7-11 / Miami, Florida

2ND ROLEX TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

May 16-20 / Scarlino, Italy

3RD PORTO CERVO 52 SUPER SERIES

AUDI SAILING WEEK June 21-25 / Porto Cervo, Italy

2ND PUERTO PORTALS 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK July 24-28 / Mallorca

3RD MENORCA 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK September 19-23 / Mahรณn, Spain

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