Spectator sailing is here (at last)!
The 2024 SailGP championship has just drawn to a close in San Francisco, after making a stopover in Saint-Tropez, for the third round of this fourth season. We received an invitation to attend. This made for a great opportunity to better understand the stakes and interest of this international competition bringing together the world’s fastest flying boats and sailors on a constructed course. What are the origins of this recent and spectacular nautical discipline? Could this real show on the water appeal to the general public? Multihulls World takes you behind the scenes of SailGP!
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Published on 01/08/2024
By
Norbert Conchin
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Have you ever followed a “traditional” sailboat race from the shore? Generally speaking, it’s very monotonous, and you can’t really understand what’s going on... Seen from a distance, the boats move slowly (with the exception of the fastest multihulls, to which we’ll come later...) and sometimes pass each other without you realizing exactly where the course is taking them. And above all, how can you tell who’s in the lead?
Fortunately, a little over 10 years ago, something clicked. The great regatta that (finally) revolutionized everything was the 34th America’s Cup,…
