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Plattner’s Visione takes pride of place in Superyacht fleet

Visione , owned by Bermuda resident Hasso Plattner, is among an extensive fleet of yachts that will compete for the coveted Boat International America’s Cup Superyacht Regatta Trophy when racing begins today.

Plattner’s Reichel/Pugh design Baltic 147 underwent a refit in 2007 and since then has produced a string of impressive showings, including claiming class honours at the 2015 Superyacht Challenge Antigua.

Visione is among the fastest superyachts in the fleet and among her crew is Glenn Astwood, the former Bermuda Olympic sailor.

A new champion will be crowned this year as the 180ft twin-masted schooner Adela is not back to defend her title.

Among the other contenders for Adela’s vacated title are the classic 43-metre yacht Rebecca, 88-metre Maltese Falcon and the 47-metre Hyperion .

The America’s Cup Superyacht Regatta is an invitational event, open to yachts measuring a minimum of 24 metres in length. The fleet will be divided into classes based on the size and specifications of the entrants.

The regatta will also feature the most complete fleet of J Class ever assembled.

These majestic titans of sail competed for the America’s Cup during the 1930s and are perhaps still some of the most famous yachts afloat. Only ten J Class yachts were ever built.

“The Boat International Media Superyacht Regatta is a unique event at the heart of the 35th America’s Cup,” said Darrell McLennan Fordyce, chief marketing and events officer at Boat International Media.

“We are excited to see these extraordinary yachts showcased as they compete in Bermuda and we look forward to congratulating the winning owners and crews at the end of the regatta.”

The one-design J Class will start and race as a single fleet. The Superyacht fleet will start and race in a staggered start format, with individual starting times. The Superyacht fleet may be divided into as many as three classes. The race committee reserves the right to change from the staggered start to pursuit format.

The J Class yachts will be scored based on the JCA handicap, while the Superyacht fleet rating rule is the ORC Superyacht Rule.

The offshore regatta will also feature some of the world’s most experienced sailors, including Brad Butterworth, a four-times America’s Cup winner, as well as Olympic medal-winners Peter Holmberg, Ross MacDonald, Ian Walker and Shirley Robertson.

Racing will take place north, east and south off St George’s.

The Royal Bermuda Yacht Club is hosting the regatta, which runs from today to Thursday, in conjunction with Boat International Media and the America’s Cup Event Authority.

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Owner: Hasso Plattner Design: Botin Builder: Persico Contact: [email protected]

Hasso Plattner entered the TP52 arena by buying the 2014 Phoenix originally owned by Eduardo de Souza Ramos and kept the boat in its original livery. After racing her a bit he set his sights higher and joined the 52 Super Series, a 2018 Botin design was ordered and built at Persico with the livery of the 2014 boat. Now the team is a regular on the 52 Super Series podium. Helming is primarily divided between Hasso and his daughter Christina and in their absence Tony Norris. The team is very international but has strong ties with South Africa where the team is very popular. Phoenix got a new keel fin in 2022.

Crew photo 2022

Published on September 25th, 2022 | by Editor

Back in the saddle at 52 SUPER SERIES

Published on September 25th, 2022 by Editor -->

The fourth regatta of the five event 2022 52 SUPER SERIES season will be the Royal Cup 52 SUPER SERIES Scarlino on September 27-October 1 in Scarlino, Italy.

It is familiar grounds for the world’s leading grand prix monohull circuit, but the teams will need to flip back some distance into their notes back to 2016 when Quantum Racing won and then in 2017 when Platoon lifted the Rolex TP52 World Championship title.

But before racing starts the competing teams will be doubly focused on making the very best use of practice time. Several crews have changes – some by choice, others by necessity – which will need as much time and carefully optimized effort to get race ready. And even for others with no changes, after exactly two months away from 52 SUPER SERIES, racing a few drills and practice starts will surely not go amiss.

After winning the previous event in late July, the Plattner family’s Phoenix hold a narrow circuit lead of just two points, over Doug DeVos’ Quantum Racing which won the first two regattas of the season. The Phoenix team welcomes back owner-driver Hasso Plattner on board to steer Phoenix at his first 52 SUPER SERIES event since Cape Town in 2020.

“The team is excited and Hasso is super excited to be coming back,” said Tony Norris, project manager for the Phoenix team. “He had a last minute health hiccup but has been doing some sailing and we will make the most of the practice days. Hasso has sailed a lot of different boats to the highest level over the years…he will slip back into it.”

Tactician Tom Slingsby will have little time to shift his mindset from foiling F50 catamarans to TP52s. “Personally I have never sailed in Scarlino but am looking forward to,” said Slingsby. “But I will be arriving late from the Cadiz SailGP event so will have to learn fast. I think we are confident that we can perform well as a team in all conditions but there are many teams who are also confident.”

Quantum Racing see talismanic owner-driver Doug DeVos return to the hot seat on Quantum Racing. After DeVos missed the previous event – where Quantum Racing finished fourth in Mallorca, 19 points behind Phoenix.

The American flagged team’s afterguard is back in their usual positions but the crew will be missing long time mainsheet trimmer, four times America’s Cup winning Kiwi Warwick Fleury. Fleury is recovering from a health problem and will be substituted in Scarlino by Chris Hosking.

“Of course we will be going out to win for Warwick and would love to see him back, but it will be a bit of a challenge for us,”:shared Quantum Racing’s Team Director Ed Reynolds. “Things won’t be as automatic as it has been over the years. We have time to work on it before the event, but I think the afterguard works really, really well together. And we like the set up of the boat. We are fundamentally fast enough to play the game.”

Harm Müller Spreer’s German flagged Platoon, lying third overall on the season standings, have made an afterguard alteration. They have replaced tactician John Kostecki with Italian ace Vasco Vascotto who will work with strategist Jordi Calafat and navigator Jules Salter.

“It will be great to sail with Jordi Calafat who as a kid I raced at regattas where he was a legend I looked up to,” shared Vascotto. “I am very happy to be coming back and to sail with guys like Victor Mariño who I spent many years with on the Farr 40 Nerone including winning a World Championship, he is a great sailor and a friend. And I’m happy to be back in the magical world of the 52 SUPER SERIES.”

Owner-driver Müller Spreer explains the change: “Sometimes you need to make changes and unfortunately the first three events of the season didn’t go as expected and we are not where we want to be on the season standings. Vasco is a tactician with a track record of winning in the TP52 class as well as many others and I think he will add some fresh air.”

And Andy Soriano’s Alegre bid farewell to hugely experienced British tactician Ado Stead – who has stepped down to spend more time with his family – and welcome Australian 470 double Olympic medalist Will Ryan who will sail as strategist as fellow past 470 World Champion Nic Asher moves to become tactician.

Scarlino 2016 was Asher’s first 52 SUPER SERIES regatta as strategist, Alegre finishing second. The two former 470 champions are looking forwards to working together.

“We have known each other more than ten years and get on well as friends, sailing other classes together,” explained Asher. “We have similar ideas and so Will was the first call. And it is good to have some younger blood coming into the class.

“I feel like I have a good track record in Scarlino where it looks changeable this week, we should get a little bit of everything.”

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52 SUPER SERIES 2022 Series (after three of five regattas) 1. PHOENIX (RSA), Hasso & Tina Plattner, 27+42+25 = 94 pts 2. QUANTUM RACING (USA), Doug DeVos, 19+33+44 = 96 pts 3. PLATOON (GER), Harm Müller-Spreer, 26+40+51 = 117 pts 4. SLED (USA), Takashi Okura, 43.5+44+36 = 123.5 pts 5. ALEGRE (GBR), Andy Soriano, 43+41+52 = 136 pts 6. PROVEZZA (TUR), Ergin Imre, 61+54+42 = 157 pts 7. INTERLODGE (USA), Austin & Gwen Fragomen, 39+71+50 = 160 pts 8. VAYU (THAI), Whitcraft Family, 45+54+79 = 178 pts 9. GLADIATOR (GBR), Tony Langley, 60+73+71 = 204 pts

52 SUPER SERIES 2022 Schedule May 23-28 – BAIONA 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK – Baiona, Spain June 20-25 – ROLEX TP52 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CASCAIS – Cascais, Portugal July 21-26 – PUERTO PORTALS 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK – Puerto Portals, Mallorca September 26-October 1 – SCARLINO 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK – Scarlino, Italy October 24-29 – BARCELONA 52 SUPER SERIES SAILING WEEK – Barcelona, Spain

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52 Super Series : Hasso and Tina Plattner in double duty off Menorca

Tatjana Pokorny

 ·  23.05.2019

The first starting gun for the 52 Super Series 2019 has been fired off Menorca. At the halfway point, the favourites are ahead: the American team Quantum Racing leads the classification after five of ten races, ahead of the Italian "Azzurra". The Turkish "Provezza" is surprisingly in third place ahead of Harm Müller-Spreer's "Platoon", which is also only three points behind the leaders.

For the first time, Hasso Plattner ("Phoenix 11") and his daughter Tina Plattner (Phoenix 12) will be racing with two boats under the South African flag. As an alternating father-daughter team, the two enjoyed the exciting competitions in the class so much last year that they will be in double action with two boats throughout this season. Because Tina Plattner lives in South Africa and wants to make a difference to sailing there, the yachts are sailing under the RSA flag.

Hasso Plattner had the idea of entering the class a few years ago. In 2014, he and his daughter found their first second-hand "Phoenix" from a broker and sailed her together in Europe. Because it was so much fun, father and daughter went on to purchase a new TP-52 yacht. Hasso Plattner's motto: "Let's do this and really go for it again together." They chose the world's leading regatta series for monohull yachts. Tina Plattner said: "It's really cool to walk down the dock at a 52 Super Series regatta. The number of America's Cup people, Olympic medallists and world class people is a bit impressive and also a bit scary. But everyone has stayed grounded, which is a lot of fun."

What has Tina Plattner learnt from her often successful father? "Quite a lot! He has always been my biggest hero in sailing. I didn't know the celebrity sailors like that before. My father often won the 'Line Honours' with his maxis for the first boat to cross the finish line. That really impressed me. Now he's 75 and dares to take on this project again. That's great. Because you know what you've achieved in the field, even if you finish eighth. He enjoys that. The sailors always say about him that he can analyse and learn very quickly. That's true. His mind is brilliant." "Phoenix 11" and "Phoenix 12" are currently in seventh and ninth place. However, both helmsmen and their crews have already shown with strong individual finishes that they want more and can do more.

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The Tale of Two MaxZ86s

Today’s Photo of the Day is of the modified MaxZ 86 Pyewacket , which was built for Roy Disney, as seen crossing the finish line at the end of July’s TransPac. Thanks to record light winds, it’s close to the fastest she got going during the entire 2,100 miles.

The boat had been built for Roy Disney several years ago and he raced her in the Pacific, both sides of the Atlantic, and the Caribbean, often against her sistership, Hasso Plattner’s Morning Glory . Then he donated her to the Sailing School at Orange Coast College.

Early this year, Disney had a change of heart, and not only decided to charter his old boat back, but to spend big bucks to maximize her in an attempt to set what might be called a ‘legacy’ course record. The modifications were extreme. Check out, for example, the original 30-ft bow of Pyewacket – now sitting on the grounds of Orange Coast College – which had been wacked off so it could be replaced with a longer one. Also at the Orange Coast grounds are various canards, keels, canting keel mechanisms and other detrius of big time racing efforts.

Unfortunately, the winds were extremely light in this year’s TransPac, and the impossible happened. Pyewacket didn’t break the record established by her sistership and rival, M orning Glory . And now Pyewacket is on the hard in San Diego, seriously for sale by Orange Coast College.

As for Morning Glory , Hasso Plattner, thanks to his SAP software fortune, had the means to match Disney’s extreme modications for the TransPac, but elected not to. He shipped his boat to the Med instead. The boat’s navigator, former Marin resident Mark Rudiger, reports that they won the World Maxi Championship in Sardinia last month. "The MaxZ 86 is still a great design," said Rudiger, "as in 20 knots of wind she’s almost as fast upwind as the best 100-footers, and off the wind, we were actually gaining on them. Those 100-footers are hard to sail well, so the 86 is still a great design." Rudiger will be at St. Tropez early next month for Morning Glory ‘s next big regatta.

So did Disney make a big mistake by modifying his old boat? Hindsight is 20-20. If the new Pyewacket had crushed the old TransPac record, nobody would even ask the question. Disney took a calculated risk, and it didn’t work out as well as it could have this time. No matter if you’re playing with 86-footers or 20-footers, that’s yacht racing.

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Morning Glory lives up to her name

• July 25, 2005

Hasso Plattner's maxZ86s Morning Glory breaks Transpac record

Early yesterday morning on a moonlit sea the torch was passed to Hasso Plattner the man whose team outsailed Roy Disney’s and broke his record in the latter’s 15th and final Transpac.

Both were sailing futuristic maxZ86s in the Centennial sailing of the event and both broke Disney’s race record of 7 days 11 hours 41 minutes 11 seconds set in 1999, but Plattner’s Morning Glory was two hours faster than Disney’s fourth and last Pyewacket, lowering the standard to 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds. Pyewacket’s elapsed time was 6:18:32:25.

Their average speeds were 13.9 and 13.7 knots for the 2,225 nautical miles from California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula to the volcanic landmark called Diamond Head just east of Waikiki. Randall Pittman’s Genuine Risk, a Dubois 90 with similar lines, also beat the record with an elapsed time of 6:22:02:35, and Doug Baker’s Magnitude 80 and Doug DeVos’s Windquest were expected to join the club later in the day.

Their performances were remarkable because it wasn’t a particularly windy Transpac. Grant Baldwin, the retiring communications chief, referred repeatedly to “wimpy trade winds,” and Peter Isler, who co-navigated Morning Glory with Ian Moore, said: “We didn’t see 20 knots [of breeze] until the Molokai Channel.”

“These boats are fantastic,” Plattner added. “With the canting keels we have less weight and better righting moment. It’s a pity that more people aren’t joining in.”

Isler said, “This boat goes so fast effortlessly it’s amazing . . . 21, 22, 23 knots, and you don’t have the sensation of speed you have on a smaller boat. Everybody got a lot of sleep. It’s a pretty painless way to go on this boat in these [relatively mild] conditions.”

It was the longest race ever sailed by Russell Coutts, the three-time America’s Cup winner who sailed as a watch captain with Morgan Larson and said, “I really enjoyed it. It’s pretty easy to go 20 knots.” Larson joked, “It’s not fair. It shouldn’t be allowed. It’s too fast.”

Morning Glory led most of the way after the three top boats surprised some observers by going their own ways as soon as they passed Santa Catalina Island 22 miles off the California coast. “We stayed together for the first five hours,” Plattner said, smiling. “Then we saw that Pyewacket was going north and we were heading south. Then the next day we swapped.”

The gamesmanship continued until Genuine Risk dropped off the pace and Morning Glory was able to put Pyewacket behind it by as much as 71 miles, but then Pyewacket steadily cut that deficit in half the last couple of days.

“It was great fun until the last minutes when we had a little adrenaline rush with Pyewacket,” Plattner said. “When they came back [Saturday] we were worried.”

Isler sailed the previous race on Pyewacket when Philippe Kahn’s Pegasus ducked south early to gain an edge it never relinquished. Asked if he was thinking about that, Isler said, “Oh, yeah. Having got stung once by just relying on [technical data], we relied more on what was the best path to take.”

Plattner drove the windiest part of the race the final night through the Molokai Channel to the finish, but Morning Glory was a rare Transpac sight when it passed Diamond Head without flying a spinnaker. Plattner and Isler explained that they overstood by delaying their final gybe to be sure they could lay the finishing buoy and had to sail too high an angle to keep the asymmetrical chute filled. “But we still crossed the line doing 16 knots,” Isler said.

Division I (Started 17 July)

1. Morning Glory (R/P maxZ86), Hasso Plattner, Kiel, Germany (0:00:00), elapsed time 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds (betters record of 7:11:41:27 by Pyewacket 3, 1999)

2. Pyewacket (R/P maxZ86), Roy E. Disney, Los Angeles (0:00:00), 6:18:32:25

3. Magnitude 80 (Andrews 80), Doug Baker, Long Beach (9:44:58), 138 miles to go

4. Scout Spirit (R/P 77), Bill Turpin, Newport Beach, Calif. (32:21:35), 399

5. Genuine Risk (Dubois 90), Randall Pittman, La Jolla, Calif. (0.00:23), 50

6. Beecom (Reichel/Pugh 72), Isao Mita, Yokohama, Japan (30:16:07), 404

7. Windquest (R/P maxZ86), Dick & Doug DeVos, Holland, Mich. (6:51:07), 184

Division II (Started July 17)

1. Pegasus 52 (Transpac 52), Philippe Kahn, Honolulu (51:49:29), 464

2. Rosebud (Transpac 52), Roger Sturgeon, San Francisco (55:04:54), 501

3. Coruba (N/M 68), Rob and Suzanne Fleming, Seattle (57:52:37), 561

4. Medicine Man (Andrews 61), Bob Lane, Long Beach (45:59:58), 472

5. Trader (Transpac 52), Fred Detwiler, Pompano Beach, Fla. (52:18:39), 529

6. Skylark (S/C 70), Doug Ayres, Newport Beach (52:18:53), 530.

7. Mongoose (Santa Cruz 70), Bradley Thorson, Bellevue, Wash. (57:38:37), 592

8. Ragtime (Spencer 66), Peterson/Richards/Welsh, Honolulu (69:08:37), 675

9. Braveheart (Transpac 52), Charles Burnet, Seattle (55:23:53), 606

10. Merlin (Lee 68), Patricia Steele, Maui, H.I. (41:54:03), 577

11. Bengal 2 (Ohashi 52), Yoshihiko Murase, Nagoya, Japan (64:07:15), 776

12. Renegade (Andrews 70), Dan Sinclair, Vancouver, B.C. (40:03:46), 635

13. Pendragon IV (Davidson 52), John MacLaurin, Encino, Calif. (65:20:10), RETIRED

Division III (Started July 15)

1. Reinrag2 (J/125), Tom Garnier, Portland, Ore. (90:15:09), 493

2. The Cone of Silence (Super 30), Jamie and Jenny Neill, Sydney, Australia (83:69:39), 469

3. Cipango (Andrews 56), Bob & Rob Barton, San Francisco (84:08:21), 490

4. Stealth Chicken (Perry 56), Timothy Beatty, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (80:52:12), 492

5. Bolt (Nelson/Marek 55), Craig Reynolds, Newport Beach, Calif. (90:16:35), 550

6. Artemis (Andrews 53), Louis Bianco, Seattle (90:58:29), 562

7. Jeito (J/145), Francisco Guzman, Acapulco, Mexico (86:10:42), 571

8. Blue (J/160), Ken and /Cheryl Sears, Nashville, Tenn. (93:03:17), 615

9. Innocent Merriment (J/160), Myron Lyon, San Diego (91:10:54), 630

10. DH-Serena (T1150), David Kuettel/Dave Van Houten, Bel Marin, Calif. (84:32:16), 628

11. Barking Spider 3 (MacGregor 65), David Kory, Concord, Calif. (74:38:45), 616

12. Dasher (S/C 50), Roger Groh, Sausalito, Calif. (89:38:24), 828

13. Chasch Mer (S/C 50), Gib Black, Honolulu (95:31:20), NO REPORT

Division IV (Started July 15)

1. Tabasco (1D35), Alamitos Bay Syndicate, Long Beach. (115:31:05), 613

2. DH-Two Guys On the Edge (1D35), Dan Doyle, Kailua, H.I. (114:54:33), 689

3. Wild Impulse (J/120), Larry Barels, Santa Barbara, Calif. (122:19:04), 733

4. Sensation (1D35), Rodney Hagebols, San Francisco. (115:11:28), 707

5. Kahoots (Andrews 43), Kerry Deaver/Bob Williamson, Newport Beach (119:24:28), 753

6. Pursuit (Custom 48), Norman and Rosemary Dawley, Solomons, Md. (121:2:04), 775

7. Uproarious (Olson 40), Robert Bussard, San Diego. (123:41:45), 818

Division V (Started July 11)

1. DH-Soap Opera (Hobie 33), Scott Self/Nigel Brown, Rockwall, Tex. (141:56:43), 53

2. Brown Sugar (Express 37), Steve Brown, Santa Ana, Calif. (141:30:59), 126

3. Super Gnat (Beneteau First 40.7), Cliff Thompson, San Diego (132:16:04), 79

4. B’Quest (Tripp 40), Challenged America, San Diego (136:41:18), 155

5. Showdown (IMX 38), Pete Meade/Mike Luna/ Paul McDonald, Irvine, Calif. (136:02:44), 171

6. DH-Diablo (J/35), Reed Bernhard/Brian VanderZanden, Anacortes, Wash. (150:24:54), 311

7. Iataia (Beneteau First 40.7), Marcos Rodriguez, Acapulco, Mexico (133:59:14), 242

8. DH-Jacaré (J/35), Jeff Young/Rich Blackman, San Diego (148:46:04), 367

Cal 40 (Started July 11)

1. Ralphie (Cal 40), Davis Pillsbury, Woody Creek, Colo. (165:37:14), 146

2. Psyche (Cal 40), Steve Calhoun, Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. (166:05:17), 218

3. Illusion (Cal 40), Sally Honey, Palo Alto, Calif. (167:07:37), 225

4. Far Far (Cal 40), Don Grind, Naples, Fla. (164:53:27), 215

5. Seafire (Cal 40), John Harrison, Honolulu. (168:13:35), 237

6. Shaman (Cal 40), Steve Waterloo, Alameda, Calif. (166:13:50), 241

7. Callisto (Cal 40), Jim Eddy, Glendale, Calif. (164:44:47), 233

8. Radiant (Cal 40), Fin Beven, Pasadena, Calif. (164:09:20), 243

9. Dancing Bear (Cal 40), Mark Schrader, Sitka, Alaska. (165:01:55), 270

10. Azure (Cal 40), Rodney Pimentel, Alameda, Calif. (165:50:20), 287

11. Willow Wind (Cal 40), Wendy Siegal, Sunset Beach, Calif. (166:28:31), 312

12. Spectre (Cal 40), Lee Rogge, Seattle. (165:13:28), 328

13. Bubala (Cal 40), Lloyd Sellinger, Newport Beach. (168:51:37), 468

14. California Girl (Cal 40), Don and Betty Lessley, Richmond, Calif. (163:20:29), RETIRED

Aloha A (Started July 11)

1. Between the Sheets (Jeanneau 52), Ross Pearlman, Marina del Rey, Calif., elapsed time 12:12:22:08, corrected time 7:06:08:51

2. Odyssey (58′ yawl), Audrey Steele Burnand, Newport Beach, ET 12:15:10:48, CT 7:06:17:01

3. Plan B (Peterson 48), David Johnson, Long Beach, ET 12:16:52:51, CT 7:09:45:32

4. Madrina (Cabo Rico 56), Dick Simon, Dana Point, Calif. (124:52:04), 46

5. Incredible (Swan 53), Rick Gorman, Los Alamitos, Calif. (126:14:24), 100

6. DH-Charmed Life (Catalina 470), Patricia Garfield/Diane Murray, San Francisco (131:54:20), 325

7. Enchilado (Jeanneau 54), Cesar de Saracho, Mazatlan, Mexico. (112:22:50), 265

8. Shanakee II (Pedrick 74), James Warmington, Costa Mesa, Calif. (83:26:25), 537 (started July 15)

Aloha B (Started July 11)

1. So Far (Swan 48), Larry Hillman, Chicago (147:28:54), 107

2. Pipe Dream (CF 37), John Davis, Long Beach. (164:43:08), 312

3. Wind Dancer (Catalina 42), Paul Edwards, Ventura, Calif. (149:50:14), 234

4. Azure (Swan 441), Samuel Beckey, San Diego. (138:17:59), 539

5. DH-Camille (Stewart 42), James and Ann Read, San Francisco (141:52:48), 1,022

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“I never ever mooned Larry Ellison”

• Updated: March 14, 2003

In his own words, Hasso Plattner recalls what happened at the 1996 Kenwood Cup, when his maxi Morning Glory lost its rig. As Larry Ellison has often told it, Plattner mooned his business and sporting rival as Ellison, on board his maxi Sayonara , was sailing by. Plattner has vehemently denied this. Here is his version of the events that day in Hawaii. “We had a business meeting and he told me he was building a maxi yacht, must be 1994 or ’95. My maxi, Morning Glory , came a year later, and from 1996 on we raced against each other. We were racing [at the Kenwood Cup in 1996] and we had a bad first race. Then we had a win in the second and we were about to win the next one and we would’ve been in the lead¿we were faster, we felt we were faster.

I was sailing against [Chris] Dickson, but with Russell [Coutts]’s help. But I steered the whole time Dickson was steering Sayonara and our mast came down. It was the last tack before the windward mark, probably five boat lengths in front of the windward mark, and the whole s–t comes down. “ Sayonara was at that point probably 10 boat lengths behind us because we had a nice little America’s Cup start, we were both late. They had to jibe and nearly hit a spectator boat. We are the second to last boat over the line and they are the last boat over the line. But we were faster than all the other ones. Then it happened. That was probably the turning point. Until then, I tried to have a normal relationship with [Larry]. We had high waves in Hawaii, typical Kenwood Cup waves, our mast is broken at the second spreader.

Somebody goes up in the mast, a French dentist, and cuts and cuts and cuts half of his thumb off. So he comes down, it’s bleeding, I still remember Matthew [Mason] saying, “Don’t look at it. Don’t look at it.” We had another dentist on board and within less than a minute they had the needles and the yarn out because when a dentist loses a thumb they’re done. So they were stitching the thumb together. The fourth spreader was still banging against the hull so everybody was focused on that. Then we secured the mast, cut the other stuff; this happened unbelievably quickly.” Sayonara sailed by, looked at us. You know how sailors are when you see a mishap of somebody else. First you calculate that they’re [out of the race] and you’re ahead and you get a first and they get a did not finish. So that’s probably in their faces and they just sail by and they’re gone. Larry and his whole crew is gone. We start the engine and the engine doesn’t engage. The pin is broken and we are without engine. And now the boat is tumbling in the waves. The mast is secured, but we can’t move. So there are tenders and we ask for help.

We ask the shore base. A tender will be out, but it will take half an hour. A small tender comes, but it can’t take us in the waves, we are too heavy. Here comes Oracle’s tender. Goes around and around. We make all the signals, ‘C’mon pick us up, give us a tow.’ We communicated to them they should not tow us into the harbor, just tow us into the wind so we could clean up the rest and then our tender would come and pick us up and get us home. They didn’t react. They didn’t react. They circled us probably twice. Then I made the official signal. There’s 20 people working and still cleaning up things, I do this here [waves outstretched arms vertically]. They take a video camera and do another round and videotape. When they come the last time from the stern, to take a nice shot from behind. I lowered my pants. I said: ‘If you have to have this on your video, when you go home you should feel s–tty about what you did.’ There is a yacht with 22 people out and we have a serious problem. We have an injury, we don’t know the amount of the injury. But we had blood on the whole boat, we have no engine and we have high waves.

They disappear, so we give them some nice America four-letter words and then a big boat came and it took us one and a half hours to get back in the harbor because we had to go slowly the mast banging. We put everything we had between the mast and the hull. So we go home, the race is over, we are done. “Years later I read in the Wall Street Journal that I mooned Larry Ellison. I write to the Wall Street Journal this is not true and they have to redo this. My advisors say: ‘No, don’t get involved with the Wall Street Journal, it’ll only get worse and everybody will pick up the story.’ I made the mistake and gave in. Then it quieted off and then Larry Ellison brought it up in interviews again, two times. In German, when he came to Germany, he made snide comments, one comment was my ass looked so awful that he feared about the mental health of his crew when he sailed by.

Another story was that I was so pissed when we lost the race and the World Championships in Sardinia in 1997 in Italy that I came by his boat and mooned him. The day when this should’ve happened, he had already left, because he didn’t race the last race because he was not there. They were moored inside, we were moored outside. We never went by him. So now again I ask my lawyers, ‘Shall I do something?’ and they said, ‘Let it die down.'”I met him in Italy and I said, ‘Larry, why are you doing this?'”‘I’m not doing anything. I don’t know what you’re talking about. You never mooned me. I never saw anything.'”I said, ‘Larry, who is writing this s–t?'”‘I don’t know, I will take care of it.'”And then he did it a third time.

So that’s Larry Ellison. Everything has been said. Therefore I would never enter an America’s Cup and sail against him. I do this for fun. What I don’t understand is that he put this in a business context and so I think this is an absolute scandal. And then I ask again my lawyers, ‘I’ll make a statement under oath. I never ever mooned Mr. Larry Ellison, nor his Sayonara crew.’ And isn’t that enough? Is there anybody in the world who believes in me? I have 22 quotes signed by the whole crew, half of them the Black Magic [NZL-32] crew, that it was not Sayonara , it was the tender. Sayonara was long gone. There was no reason. I had nothing with Larry Ellison. He couldn’t help it, he was racing by, he says, ‘Good Bye! Thank you for letting us through.’ I didn’t expect any help from them. But we expected help from any of shore crew. And not taking video. That made me really upset.”

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Hasso Plattner’s Morning Glory, sliding smoothly through a moonlit sea, finished the centennial Transpacific Yacht Race in moderate winds just after 2 a.m. local time Sunday to smash the record held by his nearest rival, Roy Disney.

Although it wasn’t a particularly windy Transpac, the maxZ86s proved their slippery power. The German boat’s time for the 2,225 nautical miles was 6 days 16 hours 4 minutes 11 seconds, lopping almost a day off the record of 7:11:41:27 set by Disney’s previous Pyewacket in 1999.

The new Pyewacket crossed the Diamond Head finish line almost exactly 2 1/2 hours later in what was Disney’s 15th and final Transpac.

Two boats finished ahead of the two maxZ86s -- Ross Pearlman’s Jeanneau 52, Between the Sheets, at 10:22 p.m. Saturday, and the 68-year-old yawl Odyssey, with Cecil Rossi as skipper, 54 minutes ahead of Morning Glory -- but they were Aloha A class entries that got a six-day head start on the big boats.

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Famous German owner, SAP computer software co-founder Hasso Plattner has a long history in grand prix yacht racing dating back to the dizzy heights of IOR and his Maxis named Morning Glory. Putting a toe into the waters of the TP52 class world he bought the 2014 Phoenix and had such fun racing it that he and daughter Tina joined the circuit for the full 2018 52 SUPER SERIES season with a brand new build Botin designed Phoenix 11. Since then they have never looked back and have become some of the circuit’s most ardent supporters.

In 2018 Hasso and Tina shared the helming at different regattas with Ed Baird in the tactician’s role supported by Tom Burnham also from Quantum Racing. In Zadar in 2018Tina and the Phoenix team came very close to winning the regatta outright but finished an excellent second, just four points shy of the winning tally of Prada Luna Rossa. In 2019 the Phoenix team ran two boats, but only the newest boat 11, did the full circuit. The 2020 season may have been shortened by the global pandemic but not until after a truly triumphant first ever 52 SUPER SERIES regatta in the home of the Phoenix teams, Cape Town, South Africa. As local hosts and sponsors the Plattner family laid on a fantastic regatta and on the waters both Phoenix teams performed well, Hasso’s team coming close to winning the event, taking bullets in two of the first three races and finishing second overall.

Travel from South Africa in 2021 was difficult but the Plattners pulled out the stops to have Phoenix 11 on the start line with a team which was mix of sailors who have been based in Europe for the season and a few others. Tony Norris, project manager, subbed in and steered in Puerto Portals, Australia’s 2012 Olympic gold medallist and America’s Cup winner Tom Slingsby was tactician and was supported by Cameron Dunn as strategist.

They won their first regatta title in Puerto Portals in 2022 and were title contenders at the end of the season finishing runners up for the season.

Owners Hasso and Tina Plattner are expected to be back steering Phoenix during this season, Argentina’s gold medallist Santi Lange is tactician and won the circuit with Azzurra in 2019.

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During a 1996 race off the coast of Hawaii, Plattner’s yacht, the Morning Glory, had a breakdown. A boat owned by archrival Larry Ellison, the head of Oracle, cruised by and the crew allegedly mocked Plattner’s plight by videotaping rather than helping. He famously mooned the camera.

Five years later, the company he helped co-found is demonstrating the same kind of feisty retort Plattner exhibited when he flashed his behind. SAP was slow to grasp the importance of the Internet and it looked as if newcomers would take the lead. But the 29-year-old company is playing catch-up fast while upstarts are sinking.

The secret of Plattner’s success can be found in SAP’s new marketing campaign. “In the old New Economy, it seemed that all a company needed to succeed was a URL and a marketing budget. But in the new New Economy companies are measured by the value they create. Can you increase productivity? Reduce costs? Discover new business?” These are questions software companies — in fact all companies — ought to be asking themselves. Products that make businesses more efficient will be in big demand in an economic downturn, and SAP has been honing its skills in this area for nearly three decades.

The world’s second-largest application-software supplier after Microsoft, SAP soared to global prominence with software that helps speed decision-making, slash costs and give managers control over global empires by bringing together a company’s operations, from order-taking to manufacturing to accounting.

With 15,000 companies as customers, it had the heft to branch out into specialized software for 19 industries — well ahead of Ellison’s Oracle, its closest competitor in this business. In recent years SAP has expanded into building links from the inside of these companies to emerging e-marketplaces, tying together suppliers and customers so they can easily transact online.

A deal Plattner orchestrated in June 2000 to combine forces with Commerce One, a U.S. Internet software company, helped shore up SAP’s strengths in building business-to-business marketplaces on the Web. And now Plattner is gearing up to gain on Siebel Systems, the leading firm in the market for sales force, marketing and customer-service software products. As he has repeatedly demonstrated — on his yacht and in the software sector — Plattner doesn’t like to lose any race.

The Vision Thing: “We want to deliver collaborative processes which move companies forward.”

Forward Spin: While it would be a mistake to underestimate the strengths of players like Siebel and i2, information technology market research firm IDC says SAP’s main competition going forward will be from the software industry’s heaviest hitters. Microsoft bought Great Plains, an enterprise-application software company, in December 2000 and is expected to target part of SAP’s traditional customer base. While IBM isn’t talking about its plans, it is expected to make a defensive play, and Oracle is putting more of its efforts into corporate software applications, SAP’s core strength.

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Henry Moret, who had painted with Paul Gauguin in Pont-Aven in Brittany, changed his style to Impressionism after 1900. As in many of his landscapes, this picture is clearly inspired by Claude Monet, who had traveled along the coast of Brittany in 1886. The sunlit cliffs surround the bay like a clamp. A boat with a red sail creates an accent in the scene that is devoid of people.

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