On this edition of The Sailing Show, Abby talks to Nina Curtis from Australia and Olivia Mackay from New Zealand, both of whom have recently returned from Sail GP’s first event of Season 2 in Bermuda. Nina and Liv have quite literally been inserted into the deep end of high performance sailing on the F50 foiling catamaran. SailGP has recently taken action to create and implement a plan for female inclusion in the global championship. In the short term, SailGP aims to fast-track the development of top female sailors to race on the F50s, with an overall goal of achieving gender equity by 2025. Bermuda was the first Sail GP event where 15 female sailors were part of the respective sailing teams for training and practice racing. We hear from Nina and Liv about how that experience went.

Host: Abby Ehler
A co-production with The Magenta Project.

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