SailGP, together with American Magic, officially launched its North American training base in Pensacola today, marking a new chapter for high-performance sailing on the Gulf Coast.
Located at American Magic’s High Performance Center, the base will give SailGP’s international teams access to facilities and resources supporting year-round training, technical development and innovation. Teams will begin training this month under a six-season agreement.
The launch included a behind-the-scenes look at SailGP’s newly arrived, dedicated training F50, which was lifted by crane and lowered into Pensacola Bay. According to remarks at today’s press conference, the new boat took approximately 40,000 hours of work to build…