Australian SailGP team capsizes U.S. boat during training
Skipper Tom Slingsby and the defending SailGP champion Australian crew capsized the U.S. team s foiling 50-foot catamaran on Bermuda s Great Sound on Friday during its first training session for the global tour s season opener.
Slingsby said there were only minor injuries and the boat was quickly righted before being towed back to base.
U.S. skipper Jimmy Spithill said there was enough damage that the high-tech boat could be out of action for a few days.
The Australians were using the U.S. boat because their catamaran was still being set up for the regatta April 24-25 that will open the pandemic-delayed second season. Spithill said the plan all along was for teams to share boats until the entire eight-boat fleet is on the water. He said the U.S. and British crews were to follow the Australians in using the American boat on Friday.
Australian SailGP team capsizes US boat during training
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By BERNIE WILSONApril 15, 2021 GMT
The second season of the SailGP global league will be awash in data that will benefit sailors as well as TV viewers, thanks to its association with tech billionaire Larry Ellison, the cofounder of Oracle Corp.
Starting with the opener of the pandemic-delayed season April 24-25 in Bermuda, SailGP will use Oracle Stream Analytics to provide real-time race metrics as foiling, wing-sailed catamarans representing eight countries skim above the waves at close to freeway speeds.
Each of the 50-foot catamarans will send 30,000 data points per second to the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Stream Analytics will blend and transform disparate data into one stream, down from the 10 streams SailGP shared in its first season in 2019. That will allow teams to customize their data dashboards with relevant tactical information, including open-source data from rival teams, and determine in-race strategies in an instant.