The news page is in Dutch so I will (roughly) translate.

The fastest time around dates fro 1982 when Martin Warnaar en Wpo Rienks (on a supercat 20) rounded the Island in 2 hours and 9 minutes. Since a few years, the north east of the sea around Texel has been declared a protected wildlife area and therefor the shortest route around the Island is not possible anymore. Nowadays the sailors need to go around the VC bouy and that adds considerable mileage to the route. It is not expected that the 1982 record will ever be broken as that record was set on the shorter course under perfect conditions. The fastest time set on the new longer course is 2 hours, 30 minutes and 36 seconds as was achieved by Ron van teylingen en Paul Manuel in 1997 on a Tornado.

Today wednesday 18 june at 10:45 local time a new record is made by a Tornado and a M20

"second news item"

Record attemps nears end. (newsflash of 12:55)

Gunnar Larsen and Xander Pols are leading on their M20 in the attempt to break the old record of 2 hours 30 min and 36 secs from 1997. Quite a distance behind are Hand Bouscholte and Donald Kenbeek on their Tornado. With still 45 minutes to fo within the record attemp schedule it is clear that they are not going to make it. The wind, force 4 beaufort, comes from the west. An ideal record attempt wind would be one coming from northwest.

Wouter : I would like to add that for a sloop rig a beam reach is the best record attempt course. This is found on texel with a north east wind. I'm not so sure wether a uni-rig with spi prefers a predominantly a beam reach course. The current western wind does allow for a significant amount of hot spi sailing with I expect is the prefered course for a uni-rig spi boat. The returning leg is a somewhere between close hauled and a beam reach.


Another interest detail is the fact that no less than 5 M20 teams have entered the Texel race on saterday

Magnus L Roberg / John Schieffer
Göran Marström / Peter Brown
Gunnar Larsen / Xander Pols
Sven-Bertil Johansson / Thomas Persson
Jan Berghorst / Marines Uit Den Bosch

Both Goran and Gunnar teams are builder/dealor teams

Quite a number for a boat that costs as much as a M20 does.

No M18 this year.