SailGP’s fourth season is the busiest so far with 13 events around the world. And while the dominant Australians continue to lead the overall standings, recent results suggest that their reign is coming under increasing pressure.
Several of the teams competing for a shot at the America’s Cup next year are also racing in SailGP, which makes high quality racing in the world’s fastest one designs an obvious choice. But, while there are clear benefits in getting match fit in a fleet of identical boats while understanding the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors, there is also nowhere to hide when things go pear shaped. All of which makes this SailGP season especially interesting for the rest of us.
With this in mind we take a look at what happened in St Tropez, Taranto and Cadiz.
We also go behind the scenes at One Sails for a rare tour of their manufacturing facility to see how and why their sails are different.
Plus, we talk to offshore record holder and PlanetSail regular Dee Caffari about an exciting campaign to set a new round the world record.
On top of this we get aboard the newly revised Farr X2 along with gorging on a double helping of Docktalk and much, much more.
And on a more personal note, we’re approaching our 4th birthday and have been pre-celebrating as we passed 10million views so far !
01:00 SailGP – St Tropez, Taranto and Cadiz
10:12 Short tacks – Fastnet race, 6m Worlds, McConaghy Boats
12:26 Docktalk Pt 1
17:00 OneSails
29:40 Docktalk Pt2
34:13 Farr X2
40:34 Dee Caffari
Additional content & links
America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta #1 Vilanova
McConaghy Boats
Fastnet Race 2023
A Brutal Start – https://youtu.be/PNOvg22th1w
On board Allegra – https://youtu.be/r9_EPCxVldk
Top Tales – https://youtu.be/OHhZuX9-Itc
Farr X2 On Test
Part 1 – https://youtu.be/JDDsg8MC3f8
Part 2 – https://youtu.be/OvohVh8EhTY
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12 Comments
Good variaty. I loved it! Looks like watching a Magazine! Congrats.
Happy birthday 🎉🤙
I was wondering what happened to IDEC
Fabulous.
So interesting as always. LEGEND
Great video, enjoyed every second as usual and as always very informative. 🥂🍾💨⛵️🌊
To pronounce Taranto correctly you must put the accent on the first a😁
Wonderful performances in all respects of this exciting cutting edge nautical competitive sport. Go Kiwis! And all involved in this exciting entertainment.
Great supercut! 👍🏻
One sails claims of being the only sailmaker who lays fibres continuously to the three corners is totally incorrect.
You are promoting false information
Excellent stuff, Matt!
Interesting that you chose to reverse the orientation of flanking hatches to center lens compared to the three companionway openings. In resolving such conundrums, I say that the solution is good if you can explain the choice. I start with how "design consistency" is achieved.