Powered by Quantum sails, John Kostecki and Austin Sperry won the 2024 Star Class World Championship
American Magic- Quantum Racing won the 52 Super Series for the seventh time in 2025
season’s winning sails it looks like there has been a complete revolution in design, structure, and construction. However, if you go through year-by-year it is clear that this revolution happened with a constant series of incremental improvements. The overall effect is revolutionary but the gains were made in steps. The culture of the programme and the commitment of Quantum’s leadership have enabled and encouraged this.’ That culture includes more than just
Lyne and Jones. As Lyne puts it, ‘while Brett, the trimmers, and I might be at the point of the spear, we are solidly backed by Quantum's Joan Subirats, Pablo Campano, Mario Trindade, Ed Reynolds – and a cast of experts. It’s a team effort, each piece has to be in place for that sail to come back as a world-class product. It’s certainly special, but it’s not magic, it's actually this team working closely together within the Quantum ecosystem.’ Subirats oversees Quantum’s iQ Technology design software. Campano’s work in membrane technology is central to pushing the limits of durability and shape retention. Trindade, one of Quantum’s Grand Prix designers, translates regatta insights into design files that become the next generation of sails. The direct implications for Quantum’s design and support process are significant. Terry Hutchinson, tactician for American Magic–Quantum Racing and president of sailing operations at American Magic, has seen it firsthand: ‘The sail design and development process used by Quantum Racing is a real benefit to all Quantum customers as there is so much data and information that translates directly to other boats and classes.’ Reynolds agrees: ‘The data and unique
insights we gather and share with our customers have proven immensely valuable. Development has always been part of our culture, and we’re continuing to expand these methods across other classes and events.’ Indeed, Quantum’s formula of
technology, collaboration and creativity continues to squeeze performance from even themostmature platforms. Beyond the TP52 fleet, Quantumhas long extended this Super Series-inspired approach to other classes, running clinics, debriefs, and weather programmes. For example, youmay have seen themat ClubSwan and Cape 31 regattas in Europe, at Helly Hansen SailingWorld regattas and Charleston RaceWeek in the U.S., and at one-design championships worldwide. Quantum’s pattern of using technology, creativity and collaboration to squeeze out improvements in well-developed and fiercely competitive racing classes is ongoing. San Francisco-based Jeff Thorpe, Quantum’s director of western US sales, has outfitted dozens of J/105s with Quantum Sails and regularly consults with owners and programme managers on hardware and gear choices and set-ups and hosts tune-ups and briefings (Quantum’s daily weather briefings at the 2025 Big Boat Series attracted more than 100 sailors to each session). Like the TP52, the J/105 is a well-
understood and heavily optimised platform, albeit with even fewer opportunities to reap gains from incremental improvements. The crucial gains here are quite often measured in millimetres and fractions of a knot. Even so, Thorpe has shown that the
same incremental, data-driven method used in the TP52s pays dividends in this fleet as well. Quantum’s strong presence in the huge J/105 fleets at San Francisco, Annapolis and beyond is undeniable. In mid-September the J/105 North American championship was sailed off Toronto in a wide variety of conditions and a Quantum-powered team handily won the event with a 29-point cushion after 12 races. This was the fourth North American championship in the last five years for Quantum and Thorpe’s clients, all double-digit point victories. Similarly, in the Star Class, Quantum designer and Star world champion George
Szabo supported John Kostecki and Austin Sperry on their path to the 2024 Star worlds, which they won decisively. Szabo’s dual role as both sailmaker and competitor epitomises the Quantumphilosophy: theory and design validated by practical results on the racecourse. ‘We went all-in on the Quantum
programme,’ Sperry explained after the regatta. Kostecki, an Olympicmedalist and America’s Cup veteran, added: ‘we had a lot of confidence in the sails, and with Quantum.’ Factory teams are not new in
technology-centric sport. Formula 1 has thrived on the model for decades. What is rare, however, is seeing that same level of investment and infrastructure extended directly to customers outside the core team. Quantum’s ability to democratise the
insights of a Grand Prix programme, to make them available to competitors on the 52 Super Series starting line, to a J/ 105 owner in San Francisco or a Star sailor in San Diego, is unusual and arguably transformative in the sport. Given this record, it was little surprise
when, in 2024, the North Technology Group (NTG) connected with Doug DeVos and Quantum leadership and added Quantum to its portfolio of high- performance marine brands. The move connected Quantum’s culture of innovation with NTG’s global scale. Within weeks of this deal’s announcement, Quantum-powered teams won the Star and Melges 24 world championships and American Magic–Quantum Racing claimed the 2024 52 Super Series title. Now, as part of NTG, Quantum is
positioned to scale its impact even further. Quantum’s message is clear: what happens at the top end of the sport doesn’t stay there, at least not at Quantum. Through their unique approaches to sailmaking, it filters down to benefit all. Sail by sail, race by race, fleet by fleet. Quantum is truly built differently.
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