Two-time America’s Cup champion Jimmy Spithill is all for improving diversity and inclusion in sailing, whether it’s along lines of race, gender or socioeconomic status. Spithill is in his first season as skipper and CEO of the U.S. SailGP team, which on Thursday launched Foiling First, a development program designed to be the first professional pathway to foiling in the United States and a catalyst for meaningful change in sailing. Foiling has become all the rage in sailing during the last decade, in which boats fly above the waves at close to freeway speeds, supported only on hydrofoils that lift the hull out of the water to increase speed.
U.S. SailGP Team launches Foiling First diversity program hoping to spur change in sailing
Two-time America s Cup champion Jimmy Spithill is all for improving diversity and inclusion in sailing, whether it s along lines of race, gender or socioeconomic status.
After all, he needed a bit of help to get going in a sport in which he s become a superstar.
Spithill is in his first season as skipper and CEO of the U.S. SailGP team, which on Thursday launched Foiling First, a development program designed to be the first professional pathway to foiling in the United States and a catalyst for meaningful change in sailing.