F50

I hope that's the correct word.

A global sailboat racing competition using F50 catamarans.

So I used the wrong word.

I used the wrong word.

F50 catamarans.

These boats can reach speeds of approximately 100 kilometres per hour, powered entirely by wind.

So one important difference between the Formula One and the SailGP is that SailGP provides all competing teams... with identical boats.

Matt noted that the data is available to the public through Oracle Insights, allowing fans to explore team performance.

It's an absolute modern miracle, the AC-75, and how a monohull can...

in the America's Cup is able to match a multi-hull like the F50 and SailGP.

But to do that again, to take it offshore and believe that a monohull can beat a multi-hull around the world to take the Jules Verne record, I mean, that would completely rewrite design concepts in sailing if it can achieve that.

So if it's capable of doing what the numbers suggest it will be able to do, it will be the most revolutionary boat of its generation.

cracking the whip, I reckon.

I reckon so, yeah.

So maybe it's not as easy for Jimmy Spithill to just pull people out of Lunarossa and put them on his F50.

When you said looking over the fence, I thought you meant you're looking over the fence down the paddock.

If we get to see Ewan McGregor vomiting off the back of his boat, having a horrible time, saying that he never wants to go sailing again by the end of it, he'd be like the rest of the offshore sailing world, and then he'd be back in a boat in six months' time.

I mean, of course, we saw him with the Emirates Great Britain team, say, you know, on an F50 earlier in the year, so he's clearly putting in some hours.

Freddie, you've actually got some inside scoop on this.

Yeah, so I met the director, actually, in London about six months ago and talked about this challenge that Ewan was doing and talked about the boat that he was going on.

OK, Stephen Casey, the 3,157th of the Stephen Casey's, says, in my opinion, the sailing, this is talking about the AC40's preliminary regatta, sailing highlights a number of issues with SailGP.

How much better is it as a sailing fan having distance on a race course that means having to work windshifts around the course? In SailGP stadium courses, there is very little opportunity to work back if behind.

The F50 is a great piece of technology, but the AC40, for me, is a much better boat for this type of racing.

What do we reckon?