Tom Slingsby
FILE - Team Australia, with Tom Slingsby holding the trophy, celebrates after winning the $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 finale of the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix, on March 27, 2022, in San Francisco. The Champagne showers from Team Australia's Season 2 championship have barely dried and it's already time for SailGP to start another dash for $1 million in cash. The third season of tech tycoon Larry Ellison's global league starts this weekend on the turquoise water of Bermuda's Great Sound, where, to no one's surprise, Tom Slingsby's juggernaut Aussie crew remains the one to beat. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Slingsby's Aussies aim for SailGP 3-peat, another $1M check

By Bernie Wilson May. 13, 2022 07:33 PM EDT

FILE - Australia SailGP CEO and driver Tom Slingsby is doused by Nina Curtis after winning the $1 million, winner-take-all Season 2 finale of the Mubadala United States Sail Grand Prix, Sunday, March 27, 2022, in San Francisco. Former Olympic and America’s Cup champion Slingsby has joined New York Yacht Club American Magic in a bid to win back the most prestigious trophy in sailing, the team announced Tuesday, May 3. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Tom Slingsby joins American Magic for 37th America's Cup

May. 03, 2022 08:25 PM EDT

Slingsby's Aussies go for SailGP hat trick at Saint-Tropez

By Bernie Wilson Sep. 10, 2021 05:34 PM EDT
Tom Slingsby’s Team Australia will go for a hat trick this weekend in the SailGP global league's regatta in Saint-Tropez, France. The...

Spithill steers US into SailGP lead on Plymouth Sound

Jul. 17, 2021 05:03 PM EDT
PLYMOUTH, England (AP) — U.S. skipper Jimmy Spithill avoided a collision at the start of the third fleet race Saturday and sailed to victory to take the...

In this photo provided by Sail GP, the Great Britain SailGP Team, helmed by interim skipper Paul Goodison, practices in Taranto, Italy, June 1, 2021. The SailGP global road show touches down in Old Blighty this weekend, giving Goodison the opportunity to sail in front of home crowds for the first time since the 2012 London Olympics. The regatta on Plymouth Sound will also give Australia's Tom Slingsby the chance to bounce back from a last-place performance in the previous regatta, an unthinkable finish for the crack team that claimed the $1 million, winner-take-all prize during the inaugural season of 2019. (Bob Martin/SailGP via AP)
Hometown Brits, Aussies look for SailGP rebound in Plymouth

By Bernie Wilson Jul. 16, 2021 01:56 AM EDT

FILE - In this Feb. 29, 2020, file photo, skipper Ben Ainslie steers the boat as the British team slows after crossing the finish line in the second fleet race of the SailGP series in Sydney. Britain beat Australia in the final match race. The second regatta in SailGP’s second season will be notable for who’s missing as much as who will be sailing in Taranto, Italy.The biggest absence will be that of Ainslie, who helmed the British team to victory in the podium race in the opening regatta in Bermuda after Tom Slingsby’s defending champion Australian team dominated the fleet racing. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
Ainslie, Waterhouse to miss SailGP regatta in Taranto, Italy

By Bernie Wilson Jun. 04, 2021 02:52 AM EDT

In this photo provided by SailGP, date not known, Nina Curtis poses for a portrait in Hamilton, Bermuda. Curtis has been picked to join the defending champion Australian SailGP team for the rest of the season as part of a developmental program designed to bring women into the global league. Curtis, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics and sailed with Team Brunel on the final five legs of the 2017-18 Volvo Ocean Race, beat out Lisa Darmanin in a training camp during the season-opening regatta in Bermuda two weeks ago. (Bob Martin/SailGP via AP)
Top Aussie female sailor Curtis picked to join SailGP squad

By Bernie Wilson May. 06, 2021 08:58 PM EDT

In this photo provided by Sail GP are Nina Curtis, left, and Lisa Darmanin, right, posing with helmsman and CEO Tom Slingsby at Sydney Harbour Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Australia. Four years ago, the closest Australian Olympic sailing medalists Darmanin and Curtis could get to the America's Cup was by taking jobs in a hospitality lounge on site in Bermuda. They'll be back in Bermuda in just a few days, this time with the defending champion Australian team in SailGP as part of a developmental program designed to fast-track the inclusion of women into the global league. (SailGP via AP)
Darmanin, Curtis chosen to try to make Aussie SailGP team

By Bernie Wilson Apr. 07, 2021 07:14 PM EDT

This photo provided by SailGP shows Australia SailGP skipper Tom Slingsby in Sydney, Australia on Feb. 6, 2021. The women sailed WASZP one-person foiling dinghies, giving Slingsby the chance to assess their potential ability on the 50-foot foiling catamarans used in SailGP. Slingsby said. "There's a lot of training ahead. We've seen some amazing male sailors who have been dropped out of SailGP because they just couldn't keep up. By no means is it going to be easy, but I just think it's great to give them the opportunity for them to come and live and train with team and see what it's all about and then if they're good enough, they'll make it." (Beau Outteridge/SailGP via AP)
Aussie sailor could be going for cousin's job on SailGP boat

By Bernie Wilson Feb. 12, 2021 03:27 AM EST