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The United States SailGP Team has no shortage of swagger, but their racing performance has not kept pace. Their recent calamity of incorrectly pressing the wing invert button caused sufficient damage to keep them from racing. Only Germany has caused more havoc, with league penalty points putting both teams at the bottom of the Season 5 leaderboard.
The sailing league is now moving to the USA for an event in Los Angeles on March 15-16, and Bill Canfield hopes the nation can get behind the home team. Yes, he is related to the team helm, but he has other reasons too:
Without stating the obvious, I’m a huge fan of SailGP – especially the American team. Taylor Canfield and Mike Buckley quickly saw the power of SailGP and on their own put together a group of US citizens to not only buy the American franchise, but also have built up US sponsorship to support their effort.
From day one, they have pledged to succeed with only American sailors and refused to waiver on this goal. Yes, there have been failures, but they do have two podium finishes from the 11 events they’ve had the team.
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