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Jimmy Spithill is relishing a return to racing the foiling catamarans.
Three weeks after his Italian-based team lost the America s Cup match on New Zealand s Hauraki Gulf, Australian-born Jimmy Spithill has arrived on Bermuda s Great Sound to lead the reconfigured American team in the SailGP global league.
Spithill will make his SailGP debut when the pandemic-delayed second season begins April 24-25. He was hired late last year as CEO and helmsman, and has remade the crew of the team that finished last in the inaugural season in 2019.
Spithill doesn t mind that he s barely had time to catch his breath from co-helming Luna Rossa in a 7-3 loss to Team New Zealand in the America s Cup last month. ....

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