{"id":132850,"date":"2021-07-16T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/?p=132850"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:08:41","slug":"paul-goodison-on-how-to-drive-a-foiling-f50-in-sailgp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/catamaran-sailing\/paul-goodison-on-how-to-drive-a-foiling-f50-in-sailgp-132850","title":{"rendered":"Paul Goodison on how to drive a foiling F50\u00a0in SailGP"},"content":"Saturday 5 June will see the second regatta in this second season of SailGP<\/a>. For the first time ever the event will visit Italy with racing throughout the weekend in Taranto.\r\n\r\nThe opening event of the SailGP season in Bermuda<\/a> set the stage with familiar rivalries, and some big crashes and capsizes.\r\n\r\nAll eight of the teams have already been practising in Italy, giving each team a chance to reacquaint themselves with the high-tech, foiling<\/a> F50 catamarans<\/a>. Two crews - Great Britain SailGP and New Zealand SailGP Teams<\/a> - were also putting in some much needed practice time with new faces onboard.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_132186\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Paul Goodison takes to the water helming the British team's F50 for the first time[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe current leader after the first event \u2013 the British SailGP Team \u2013 has swapped one Olympic gold medalist for another with Paul Goodison<\/a> making his debut as the driver for the British team, replacing Ben Ainslie<\/a> for the next two events. An interim shift, this substitution will have all eyes on the British team as it aims to retain its position at the top of the leaderboard.\r\n\r\nGoodison said: \u201cThis is my first time ever sailing on the F50 and I was very impressed by the team and the boat and it was just great to get out sailing again. There is a little bit of apprehension for me going into my first event but, to be honest, I am just super excited and just can\u2019t wait to get out there and line up with the other boats and start racing.\u201d\r\n\r\nArticle continues below...<\/em>\r\n\r\n
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\r\n\r\nSwiss born Arnaud Psarofaghis also had his first two days in the driving seat. The double European champion in the foiling Moth class, takes the wheel of the New Zealand SailGP Team after the date shift for the Tokyo Olympic Games sees Peter Burling and Blair Tuke<\/a> step aside into a supporting role for the next two SailGP events in Plymouth and Aarhus.\r\n\r\nAdditional crew changes on the New Zealand boat include the arrival of James Wierzbowski as flight controller, and Jason Saunders as wing trimmer. The three new team members took to the water for the first time with their sights firmly set on moving up the leaderboard from fifth position.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_132184\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" Team during some warm up racing ahead of the regatta. Photo: Bob Martin \/ SailGP[\/caption]\r\n\r\nSouthern Italy will see the reemergence of Jimmy Spithill<\/a>\u2019s United States SailGP Team and Nathan Outteridge<\/a>\u2019s Japan SailGP Team after a nearly catastrophic collision in Bermuda that severely damaged both boats and took them out of the running for the event.\r\n\r\nAfter a race against time, both boats returned to the water just in time for some vital training ahead of the season\u2019s second event this weekend.\r\n\r\nJapan SailGP Team flight controller Francesco Bruni said: \u201cIt is very exciting to be out sailing on the water, especially for me at my home event. I'm really looking forward to seeing a lot of fans. It's gonna be very good racing in Taranto.\u201d\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_132187\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"630\"]\"\" The wing extension used in light winds and newly introduced for this second season have been used in practise. Photo: Thomas Lovelock \/ SailGP[\/caption]\r\n\r\nJoining the F50s on the water over the weekend are the successful candidates of SailGP\u2019s boundary-breaking and gender equal Inspire Racing program. Fans can expect an on-water showcase of young males and females racing for the future - nine sailors on WASZPs, and 18 sailors on RS Fevas - who will share the racecourse with the supercharged F50 foiling catamarans.\r\n\r\nAction at the Italy Sail Grand Prix gets underway at 1:30 p.m. local on both Saturday 5 and Sunday June 6. Fans unable to attend can watch the live broadcast in Italy through official broadcast partners Rai Sport and Sky Italia, and by downloading the award-winning SailGP App. For details on how to watch globally visit SailGP.com\/Watch.\r\n\r\n
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Paul Goodison is one of the most talented foiling sailors around \u2013 he\u2019s a three-time International Moth World Champion and was mainsail trimmer on the American Magic AC75 in this year\u2019s America\u2019s Cup, doing the same role on the Artemis Racing foiling catamaran in the previous Cup. Oh and he\u2019s also an Olympic Gold medallist.\u00a0But until a few weeks ago, he\u2019d never competed in the SailGP circuit \u2013 which makes taking over the wheel of the foiling F50 for Ben Ainslie for the Great Britain SailGP Team all the more challenging. Having won the season opener in Bermuda, Ainslie stepped out of the circuit for two events (he recently announced the addition of their second child to the Ainslie family, congratulations to Ben and his wife Georgie), handing over to Goodison for the Italian stage of the tour. We spoke to \u2018Goody\u2019, as he is widely known, just before the start of the third SailGP event in Plymouth, UK, which kicks off tomorrow. \u201cIt’s very new,\u201d he explains. \u201cMy my role with Artemis a long time ago was as the backup helmsman to start with and then I ended up being a wing trimmer when it came round to the 50. “Then the last time round I did a reasonable amount of driving the AC75 early on when Dean [Barker] was away, we swapped in and out a little bit, then I was racing as the wing trimmer in the last America’s Cup. To be stepping into this kind of fleet racing with eight boats and reaching starts is all quite exciting and quite different from what I’m used to. Article continues below… \u201cSo it was a steep learning curve, I guess, in Taranto, but a good one.\u201d The Brits squad finished 6th in Italy, with Nathan Outteridge sailing Team Japan to win, but a mixed series saw usual front runners Australia, with Tom Slingsby, finishing 8th. Learning to sail the foiling F50 Previously, many of the SailGP teams were able to hone their skills on a highly sophisticated simulator at Artemis Techologies in the UK, but due to Goodison\u2019s packed schedule he had to learn on the foiling F50 for real. \u201cUnfortunately, I didn\u2019t get the chance to go on the simulator! That would have been really nice, but it was just about being thrown in the deep end. “But the other guys, the whole team from the shore team to the sailing team here is tremendous. So it was a lot easier than it would have been, I guess, if I’d been out there with a less experienced team.\u201d\u00a0 One of the biggest challenges of racing in Taranto was that with light winds meant each crew was reduced from five to three (removing the grinders onboard) to allow the F50s to foil at a lower wind speed. \u201cSailing with three [an option taken by the teams to reduce crew weight in very light winds] the first day last time was a real challenge and something I probably didn’t …Continue reading »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1571,"featured_media":132866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1160,982],"tags":[1523,173,919,2133,1633],"review_manufacturer":[],"acf":[],"introduction":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132850"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138643,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132850\/revisions\/138643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132850"},{"taxonomy":"review_manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yachtingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review_manufacturer?post=132850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}