#SailGP season 2023-2024

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Finally put captions on the videos BUT…

… somehow they screwed up the final race results?

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"Communications entrepreneur Thomas Riedel launches his own team at SailGP with Sebastian Vettel and Erik Heil. Float spoke with Riedel about his ambitions." - february 16, 2024 📷 @.floatmagazin / instagram

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More upcoming paternity leave news for SailGP

Damn it all, the breeding is getting out of hand.

Nice opportunity for Nathan though to temporarily helm Amokura.

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So I’m gonna attend the remote video cast fan owners team meeting of SailGP today.

Should be interesting since they are still looking for high net worth individuals to invest…

If I was a high net worth individual, would I freely admit this via surveymonkey? 😆

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Welcome Germany 🇩🇪 to the Sail GP League and Season 4!

Some great sailing talent in Erik Heil and Kahena Kunze!

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Some great photos in this link.

Great memories from Season 4.

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The hype has started for June 1-2, 2024 in Halifax-Dartmouth

Hoping for a great turnout.

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Yup - He added: "I think (Sail)GP is quite influenced by F1 and the experience around F1 and they want their sponsors to be able to experience that kind of thing."

Bye-bye Auckland for 2024.

Very disappointing, but according to the NZ Herald, the event in March could still be hosted elsewhere.

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Nice mural Halifax!

Better viewed in the video link below.

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Well, that was a beautiful weekend of racing on the Great Sound of Bermuda.

Congrats to Spain for a well deserved win. Impressive, confident and clean sailing.

🇨🇦 did well, but not quite consistent enough to make it into the final. Hopefully this event will light a fire under them for the rest of the season. Same with the Danes.

The video above has great footage of the USA capsize and showed why they couldn’t race this weekend. USA team are clearly in a beginning learning phase and we won’t see them anywhere near the top for a long time.

Congrats to Australia 🇦🇺 and New Zealand 🇳🇿 for making the final too. Unless something drastic happens, they definitely will be in the Grand Final in San Francisco.

Petition to have EVERY America’s Cup BE held IN BERMUDA. It is simply the most beautiful and reliable sailing venue around. I had an invitation to visit in 2003, but couldn’t go. Time to rectify that!

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Yee-haw, the course has been released for the Halifax SailGP race course in Halifax.

Looks like being in a boat will have the best view.

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New Zealand SailGP team announced new brand name “Black Foils” ahead of Christchurch event.

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From Stuff.co.nz:

An investigation is underway as to why the wing came out of alignment which caused the structural failure to happen.

"We will be working hard to determine what happened and how to prevent future occurrences. In the meantime, while we determine the facts we will not use the 29m wing configuration,'' Sail GP said in a statement.

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Exciting to hear that SailGP has accepted a new bid for the Canada SailGP team!

Great news! Wonder who the new owner will be. 🤔

And finally some great questions and answers in the second half of the press conference to Ben Ainslie.

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Looks like Taylor Canfield will be on deck for the US Sail GP team for the upcoming event in Cadiz, Spain.

Best wishes to Hans Henken for a speedy recovery so he can resume his duties and 🇺🇸 49er Olympic training.

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Nicely done Sail World!

SailGP is exciting, because it is not predictable. That is the vagaries of sailing.

And Australia is still on top, because they have been the best at the starts and controling as much as they can.