Trinity Is Ready. Now the Racing Begins.

A brand-new Botin-designed TP52 built by King Marine has left the yard and hit the water ahead of the 2026 52 Super Series season. Swedish skipper Joakim Sundberg is at the helm. The clock is ticking.

There is a particular moment in any new build when the boat stops being drawings and numbers and becomes something else entirely: a machine that moves. For Trinity, that moment came in late April 2026, when the new TP52 was lifted off the stands at King Marine's yard, lowered into the water, and sailed for the first time. Sea trials confirmed what the design team at Botin Partners had calculated and what the build team at King Marine had built toward. The boat works.

In less than two weeks from that first splash, Trinity Racing will be on the start line at Puerto Portals for the opening regatta of the 2026 52 Super Series season — one of the most competitive one-design grand prix circuits in global offshore racing. The fleet will number 14 boats from 11 nations. The pressure is real from day one.

The Boat

 

Trinity measures 15.85 metres on deck, with a beam of 4.42 metres and a displacement of 6,975 kilograms — numbers that place it squarely within the TP52 class box, but numbers that tell only part of the story. The three-and-a-half-metre draft delivers the righting moment that allows the rig to push hard. The hull was designed by Botin Partners, the Madrid-based naval architecture firm with deep roots in the class. Engineering was handled by Pure Engineering, with Miguel Costa managing the project from concept to launch at King Marine’s yard. What differentiates boats within the class is in the details — hull form refinements, appendage geometry, deck layout, sail inventory — and that is precisely where the collaboration between Botin and King Marine focused its attention.

King Marine’s Role

 

Building a TP52 to campaign in the Super Series is not a project you hand to just any yard. The tolerances are tight, the schedule is unforgiving, and the expectations of the team that will race it are exacting. King Marine, based in Spain, has built the reputation as a yard capable of delivering at this level — technically rigorous, detail-oriented, and experienced in the demands of grand prix monohull construction.

The Trinity build represents exactly the kind of project King Marine was built for: a new boat, designed from scratch, intended to compete immediately at the highest level of the class. From layup to systems integration, from deck hardware positioning to final finishing, the yard’s work is now being tested on the water in real time. The fact that Trinity went from the yard to the water with sea trials completed in time for the season opener is itself a delivery.

The Team

The skipper is Joakim Sundberg, a 47-year-old Swedish entrepreneur who came to grand prix racing only recently — but who arrived with the kind of ambition that tends to accelerate timelines. Two years ago he had barely stepped aboard a boat like this. Now he’s launching a full campaign with a new TP52 in one of the world’s most competitive fleets.

The crew is largely Swedish, but the key performance roles are filled by people who have been here before. Tactician Ed Baird is an America’s Cup winner and multiple-time 52 Super Series champion — the kind of experience that is worth its weight in polars. Navigator Johan Barne brings three Olympic campaigns and time aboard Platoon and the Swedish Victory Challenge. Ross Halcrow, a veteran trimmer, rounds out the core.

“We are rookies in the series. But we have the backbone on the boat — Rossco and Ed, as well as other really experienced sailors. Expectations are still high. We also have a new boat. That should obviously have some benefits.”, explain  Joakim Sundberg,  from Trinity Racing