Check out SailGP. It’s got some flaws, but they did actually manage to design a sailboat race that goes fast enough to actually be interesting to watch in real-time.
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I have my doubts that it’s as eco-friendly as they claim, since they still use fossil fuels for support boats, shipping the sailboats across the world between events, etc.
It’s pretty new and seems a little underfunded, so the production values and commentating can be a bit rough around the edges.
They try to make it accessible (e.g. by reporting speeds in kph instead of knots), but it’s still got a whiff of yacht-club elitism to it.
Check out SailGP. It’s got some flaws, but they did actually manage to design a sailboat race that goes fast enough to actually be interesting to watch in real-time.
flaws