Transatlantic Race
Tschüss2 Looks to Stretch its Legs En Route to Line Honors Win in Transatlantic Race 2025
Many people find comfort in the familiar. Not Christian Zugel, who spent his youth in landlocked southern Germany, but discovered, late in life, a passion for blue-water ocean racing. On June 18, as part of an epic Atlantic tour to celebrate turning 65, Zugel will launch his Volvo 70 Tschüss 2 off the starting line for the Transatlantic Race 2025, his eyes set firmly on a line-honors win in this historic race.
“A moonlight sky at night is amazing, there’s no other way of describing it,” says Zugel. “To me, it’s just being offshore, so far out there’s really nothing around you. Your thoughts go in completely different directions, the world becomes a different place.”
The Transatlantic Race 2025 is organized by the New York Yacht Club and the Royal Ocean Racing Club, with support from the Royal Yacht Squadron and the Storm Trysail Club. The race will start from Newport, R.I., on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, and finish off Cowes, England, one to three weeks later. The competitors will cover a distance of approximately 3,000 miles. IRC handicap scoring will determine the winners in each division. The 2025 edition will be the 32nd Transatlantic sailing competition organized by the New York Yacht Club. The race is sponsored by Peters & May and Helly Hansen.
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