Puerto Portals 52 SUPER SERIES Sailing Week
Platoon Aviation are one of the most successful teams on the 52 SUPER SERIES. After four end of season podiums – third in 2021 and runners up in 2017, 2018 and 2019 –at the end of the 2023 season in Puerto Portals they clinched the season title for the first time. It capped a strong season for the German flagged team, their third world title after successes in 2017 and 2019.
The team is owned and run by Hamburg businessman Harm Müller-Spreer who is a lifetime racing sailor who was previously successful particularly also in the Dragon keelboat. He raced on the original MedCup TP52 Circuit. He took a long break from the class but returned with a top crew and top boats usually from the Vrolijk design office. After winning the 2023 circuit title he seized the option to have a new Botin boat from the same mould and the same builder as Alegre, King Marine.
One of the very top owner-drivers in the world, Müller-Spreer has had a very settled team in recent years. The afterguard partnership of strategist Jordi Calafat and navigator Jules Salter were joined mid season 2022 by Italy’s charismatic Vasco Vascotto one of the class’s most successful tacticians. Trimmers include America’s Cup winners Ross Halcrow and Dirk De Ridder (mainsheet).
