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Racing sailing yachts for sale are often in high demand among sailors and racing enthusiasts who are looking for a competitive edge on the water. These yachts are specifically designed and optimized for speed and maneuverability, with sleek, lightweight hulls and high-performance sails. The market for racing sailing yachts includes a range of sizes and classes, from small one-design dinghies to large, ocean-going boats. Buyers interested in purchasing a racing yacht will typically look for models that offer a balance of speed and control, as well as high-quality equipment and rigging. Whether for personal enjoyment or professional competition, racing sailing yachts offer an exciting and challenging way to experience the thrill of the open water.

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The High-Adrenaline Racing of SailGP, Where Boats Don’t Float—They Fly

E ver wanted a new sport to get into? Perhaps one that combines adrenaline, high-tech thrills and spills, and exotic locations? SailGP might be for you. Think of it as Formula 1 on water, with ten nations battling it out in 50-foot-long, 80-foot-tall high-tech racing catamarans powered entirely by the wind. But here’s the thing: They don’t sail. They fly—and fast.

SailGP, founded in 2019, is the brainchild of billionaire sailing nut Larry Ellison and New Zealander Sir Russell Coutts, arguably the most famous and successful competitive sailor in the sport’s history. From the get-go, the pair’s idea was not to create just another race series for yachty insiders but a global, spectator-friendly event that could capitalize on the new advances in sail racing afforded by foiling technology. This year, the season reached 193 million viewers, up 48 percent from 2023. Taking more than a little inspiration from Formula 1, SailGP set out to attract non-sailors to this burgeoning sport, partly by staging the races in nontraditional waters, like Abu Dhabi, Bermuda, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Since its inception, the SailGP competition has been sponsored by Rolex, which has long been a supporter of all manner of sailing. Last year, the brand extended its support by ten more years. As well as a $2 million purse for his team, the winning skipper at the grand finale, which this season took place below the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, receives a titanium Yacht-Master II.

Many of sailing’s luminaries are also key members of Rolex’s Testimonee program, evangelizing for both sailing and its unique connection with ocean sustainability. One of them is Tom Slingsby, Helm and CEO of SailGP’s Team Australia and three-time Rolex Sailor of the Year. At the top of his game, Slingsby, 39, has carried off three out of the four SailGP championships for Team Australia since it began in 2019.

Foiling, just a decade-and-change old, has transformed competitive sailing. Put simply, thanks to the physics of hydrostatic pressure, by foiling on carbon fiber blades, an entire 50-foot racing catamaran can lift itself out of the water, reducing the drag coefficient to almost nothing and producing speeds unimaginable just 15 years ago. Often, this means the boat moves three, even four times faster than the wind.

“You see spectators’ faces when you go past them doing nearly 100 kilometers an hour on the water, and at four times the wind speed,” Slingsby says. “It’s unbelievable.” Foiling has almost doubled competitive sailing’s top speed—and it’s getting faster all the time. Not that speed is really the aim here.

“I don’t think it’s SailGP’s goal is to set an outright speed record or anything like that,” Slingsby explains. “What we want is a good racing product. Our hydrofoils don’t need to just go super-fast in a straight line; they need to go around a racetrack efficiently, to take off in light airs and sail well in strong airs, and be maneuverable when tacking and jibing.”

But getting there requires both skill and experience in a fast-evolving sport as well as an array of technology and data-gathering. So called “aviation officers” on each team have one job: to keep the race boat flying on its foils in constantly changing conditions. When they don’t, interesting things can happen.

Slingsby will probably race any boat you put in front of him. There’s a reason for that. “In the Olympics in 2008,” he says, “I went in as a favorite to win the Laser gold medal and I choked, basically I finished twenty-second. Then my good friend Nathan Outteridge [a fellow Australian and Helm of SailGP Team Switzerland], was leading going into the final race and ended up coming away with fifth and missing a medal. We were both really depressed. We were sitting having a beer after the Olympics and he said, ‘We’ve just got to sail more. Let's just sail every type of boat, learn every type of skill, and that way we will be hard to beat.’”

Slingsby (and Outteridge) did just that, diving head-first into the nascent sport of foiling at just the right time. Both went on to win Olympic golds.

“I’m very fortunate that I actually got to be part of sailing before foiling came along,” Slingsby says. “I went to the Olympics in Lasers, probably the simplest boat in the world, and then I was there when the America's Cup boats started hydro-foiling. Now I'm here now with SailGP, the fastest and most amazing foiling league in the world, and it's really taking our sport to new levels.”

Unlike Formula 1, there’s a deliberately bare-bones vibe to the infrastructure of SailGP to make the whole competition as environmentally sustainable as possible. The tagline is, after all, “Powered by Nature.”

“SailGP is at the top of the sport,” Slingsby explains, “so it filters down through the whole of sailing. We see and deal with ocean health every day; we see it much more than, say, tennis players do, or F1 drivers, or track athletes. We’re out there dealing with Mother Nature; it's probably just us and surfers. It’s our responsibility to raise awareness.”

Off the water, the Impact Awards challenge GP teams to come up with ingenious ways to reduce waste and save on resources. For instance, the race catamarans—which all share the same design—were designed so they can be disassembled and fit into a single 40-foot container.

The benefit of one-design racing is that it levels the playing field. Skill becomes much more pivotal in race results. Each boat has around 160 electronic sensors, tracking every setting of the boat, especially below the waterline, where the angle of attack of the foils is critical. Win or lose, at the end of a race day, all those recorded settings are beamed straight to the cloud and are immediately accessible to the other teams and their tacticians.

“Initially, I really didn't like it,” says Slingsby of the data sharing. “We were the top team and every day we’d go out and be losing advantage to our competitors because they would see our data from that day, and they were getting closer and closer. But now, I think it's just good for SailGP. The racing is so much tighter.”

Tighter, but also more human too. While material failures account for a proportion of crashes, decisions made by a skipper in a split second—or simply a split second too late—can throw out a whole race.

Another curiosity of SailGP is the way the finals are set up. The point system gives a race winner 10 points; second place receives 9 points, and so on. But the finals are where it gets interesting. The grand finale weekend consists of five qualifying fleet races featuring all 10 teams, and then the final race itself. Only the top three teams get to race in the final, with their seasonal scores effectively erased. Which means a team could be third overall for the season and still win the grand finale in the last few minutes of the season. It makes for a gripping race.

That’s precisely what happened last month in San Francisco, where third-place Spain, skippered by Diego Botin, edged out league leaders New Zealand and Australia in a race that lasted just 10 minutes.

Slingsby, for his part, is currently in Barcelona, where that other great sailing race, The America’s Cup, is under way. SailGP’s 2024/25 season kicks off in November in Dubai. Two news teams are rumored to be joining the fray, attracted by the unique approach to racing established for SailGP.

“The America's Cup is a development game,” says Slingsby. “You design your own boat and you're just trying to make it the fastest you possibly can on the water. Essentially, you’re in training boats for three years and then you get three or four months in your actual race boat. You really do one important event in four years. With SailGP, we get to race for a full season every year. So, for sure SailGP is my favorite thing to do because it's consistent racing every month. Me, I'm a racer.”

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Challenges confronted the crew of the Blitzen from day one in their inaugural year competing in the Newport Harbor Yacht Club’s racing season. Their halyard broke during the opening day race in May, sending the wind-catching kite propelling their boat from Long Beach Harbor to Newport Pier tumbling into the ocean.

“There was no hesitation between this team,” Blitzen’s owner Brett Scott said. “Everyone grabbed the kite and in 20 seconds it was up and flying again.”

She has been sailing since she was 5. But her first year at the head of a team has taught her a lot about managing schedules, the personalities aboard the boat and finances, she said.

“Whenever something breaks it adds up, so I’m definitely not doing this for the money,” Scott said with a laugh. “Don’t take investment advice from me. But we’ve really bonded as a team, and I think that’s our greatest achievement.”

There were plenty of smirks, side-eye and playful jabs as she and the crew rigged the Blitzen Friday in preparation of Long Point Race week. The three-day race is the last competitive event of the yacht club’s season.

The first leg starts in Newport Harbor and ends at Catalina Island. Boats then sail to the opposite end of the island and back on day two before returning to Newport Harbor on day three.

Blitzen’s Baddies, as the crew refers to themselves on Instagram, are all experienced sailors and were optimistic about finishing strong in their first season as a team. They’ve had some success this summer, including third-, second- and first-place finishes in their class during the three days of Long Beach Racing Week in June.

“We keep getting better,” Scott said.

Crew member Tyler Macdonald said the hardest part about the season has been “dealing with Adam and Spencer,” drawing laughs from Adam Bradley, Spencer Buchanan and the rest of the team aboard the Blitzen on Friday. Teammate Matt Whitfield said the real challenge of each race lies in “the hangover afterwards.” Coincidentally, he said his favorite activity while sailing is when they crack open some beer mid-journey.

There’s no shortage of banter aboard the Blitzen. And the irreverent sense of humor of her crew is half the reason Scoot chose to have them aboard.

She grew up in Reno and traveled to Newport Beach every summer as a child to sail with her family. She fell in love with both the ocean and the tavern-style warmth of the community that welcomed her into the sport.

Her father, Bart Scott, said he wasn’t surprised to see her move to Newport Beach. He’s proud to see her fulfill her lifelong dream of owning a boat and fielding a racing team. And although she has a sense of humor, she runs a tight ship and commands the respect of her crew.

“Once we all come together on what a problem is there’s not a lot of back and forth or arguing,” Scott said. “They all just recognize what we each need to do and get it done.”

After Long Point, Blitzen’s Baddies plan on participating in small casual races while preparing for next season. They hope to compete in the Transpacific Yacht Race from San Pedro to Honolulu next July.

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America’s Cup contenders: Sailing professor Mark Orams ranks the teams on the eve of Barcelona racing

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Professor Mark Orams is a former NZ and world champion sailor, Team New Zealand member, author, environmentalist and Professor of Sport and Recreation at the Auckland University Technology.

Here we go again. The business end of the 37th America’s Cup is about to kick off with the preliminary regatta commencing at midnight on Thursday (NZ time).

This initial four-day regatta will set the form book for the Louis Vuitton Challenger Series next week.

Emirates Team New Zealand have set the rules (with the agreement of the Challenger of Record INEOS Britannia) to allow themselves to compete in both the preliminary regatta and the first rounds of the Louis Vuitton Challenger Series. This strategy is a smart play to reduce the single biggest risk for the America’s Cup defender: isolation.

By being able to sail in these early rounds, the Kiwis get to check in and see how their design decisions, configurations and modes stack up against the competition. They played another smart card by sharing their design with the new French challenger, Orient Express Racing.

As a first-time America’s Cup competitor, and the last to launch their new AC75 yacht, the French are unlikely to progress far in the Challenger Series but their basic Emirates Team New Zealand design package provides the Kiwi team with a surrogate – and vital knowledge – in the Challenger Series.

Sail GP has also played into the hands of the Kiwis. The ETNZ crew were rusty in the first few races of the 36th America’s Cup regatta. They had only been racing against their chase boat and in the simulator for weeks while the challengers were competing on the Waitematā. The Sail GP series has given the core ETNZ crew regular racing in identical F50 foiling catamarans against their key competitors, and in a similar format to, the 37th America’s Cup.

That’s all good news for the Kiwis.

While this stacks the deck in favour of the defender, it won’t negate a challenger with a faster boat.

Apart from the French and New Zealand boats, which are nearly identical, the hull designs for this second iteration of the foiling AC75 class are quite different from one another.

Each team have come up with a solution to the design challenge meaning they will be faster in different wind and sea-state conditions. Barcelona is a tricky venue and as the season transitions from summer to autumn, it will become more variable. Adapting and moding the boats to the conditions for any particular race, and even within a race, will be vital to winning.

My rankings/predictions for this preliminary regatta:

1. Emirates Team New Zealand : The Kiwi team wrote the rules for this AC75 Version 2 design and have the advantage of being a step ahead with their previous Version 1 boat which was clearly faster overall than any challenger during the 36th America’s Cup. The addition of Nathan Outterridge as co-helm with Peter Burling is a great get. The team have few weaknesses and appear to be leading the way with their design, especially in the all-important foils.

2. Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli : As always, the Italians have produced a beautiful design focused on all-around performance. Their experience with a strong combination of America’s Cup veterans means they will be competitive and I expect them to be one of the top two challengers.

3. NYYC American Magic : The most innovative and radical design – the Americans have chased a breakthrough with the lowest volume/drag hull design and a focus on centralising crew weight. Their co-helms Tom Slingsby and Paul Goodison are top-notch and I would not be surprised if the American boat is very quick in certain conditions.

4. INEOS Britannia : In contrast to the American boat, Britain’s Britannia has a “robust” design focused on more hull volume and an ability to push hard in any sea state. Their most interesting feature involves moving their rudder and elevator located forward from the stern which has the advantage of reducing weight in the back end. This, potentially, puts focus on using the rudder elevator to drive more power into the entire set-up. Greater hull volume equals greater buoyancy, which is good for big seas and take-off on to the foils. The overall trade-off is increased drag. I expect the Brits to be close with the Americans despite their contrasting designs.

5. Orient Express Racing : The new French outfit was the last to enter this 37th America’s Cup and the last to launch their new AC75 and as a result they have the least experience in these boats. Their advantage is having the ETNZ basic design package, so they will be competitive at times. I expect them to win a few races but their lack of experience in these boats at this level will tell.

6. Alinghi Red Bull Racing : It is extremely difficult for a new team to catch-up with established operations already progressing in a design development race. Breaking their mast 48 hours out from this preliminary regatta is a major set-back, no matter how they try to spin it. I expect the Swiss team to have their moments – but they will be chasing rather than leading.

Professor Mark Orams has raced in a winning crew in the Whitbread Round the World Race, was a member of Team New Zealand 2000 working alongside Sir Peter Blake and worked as an onboard scientific advisor for Sir Peter’s conservation endeavours with Blakexpeditions. He is now the Deputy Vice Chancellor Research at AUT.

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