This is Fast.net, a new Swan 70 which won the recent Swan Worlds in both class and overall. There were 100 plus boats competing. The boat is owned by a 41-yr. old Frenchman, named Thierry de Passemar, who made his fortune developing tools to create websites. He then sold the company to some Internet giant which enabled him to do things like buy a million dollar Swan 70. Sails were Quantum Cuben Fiber and asymmetrical downwind sails, including a Code 0 which apparently was a critical weapon. Jordi Calafat, Olympic Gold Medallist in the 470 skippered the boat and Larry Leonard called tactics.

09/19/2002