SailGP, the exhilarating sailing race series, has returned to San Francisco this weekend, bringing with it a spectacle of fast foiling catamarans racing across the stunning bay. As a sailing enthusiast, there’s nothing quite like watching these high-speed vessels battling it out on the water. With the races taking place this Saturday and Sunday, fingers […]
It is season 2 for the sailing competition SailGP and the event is back in San Francisco for the final races. If you have been in San Francisco for a few years, the boats will look familiar as they are based on older America’s Cup boat designs. It is so much fun to see these […]
Today was the second and final day of the SailGP racing in San Francisco. While team Japan dominated yesterday, they struggled with equipment problems today. Still they came in second after Australia. Great Britain came in third, followed by USA, France and China. Congrats to Australia’s SailGP team! This was a fun event to watch […]
Today was the first day of racing. Three races total and Japan SailGP team won them all! Congratulation to Nathan Etheridge and his sailors and supporters. The conditions were tricky and many teams found themselves off balance at one time or another. Here are a few extracts. Additional pictures can be found in this gallery. […]
During the entire week, the teams from the SailGP sailing circuit were training in the bay for this weekend’s races. Here are a some outtakes from the last few days. I’m looking forward to the two coming days of racing. It will be interesting. Additional pictures can be found in this gallery. PS: If you happen […]
Big foiling sailing boats are back in San Francisco! This is the second stop of the new sailing circuit Sail GP. The boats are based on the ones used for the 2017 America’s Cup in Bermuda, but are “redesigned, re-engineered and rebuilt from the inside out”. These boats are fast (>60 mph) and they are […]
