SAN DIEGO — The U.S. SailGP team trained on American waters for the first time Monday after launching its new-look F50 foiling catamaran on San Francisco Bay in advance of the fledgling global league’s second regatta. The other five teams will launch this week and the San Francisco regatta will be sailed May 4-5. Australia, led by America’s Cup winner and Olympic gold medallist Tom Slingsby, won the opening regatta. SailGP was founded by tech billionaire Larry Ellison and New Zealander Russell Coutts, a five-time America’s Cup winner. The new league took three 50-foot foiling catamarans from the 2017 America’s Cup and redesigned and re-engineered them, and built three new ones.

Source: National Post April 23, 2019 03:22 UTC