Check out SailGP. It’s got some flaws, but they did actually manage to design a sailboat race that goes fast enough to actually be interesting to watch in real-time.
flaws
I have my doubts that it’s as eco-friendly as they claim, since they still use fossil fuels for support boats, shipping the sailboats across the world between events, etc.
It’s pretty new and seems a little underfunded, so the production values and commentating can be a bit rough around the edges.
They try to make it accessible (e.g. by reporting speeds in kph instead of knots), but it’s still got a whiff of yacht-club elitism to it.
That time was like 30 years ago. Now we can either stop using them altogether and have a bad time, or we can keep using them and have a slightly more bad time.
k, it’s time to wind down the whole we’re-just-burning-fossil-fuels-for-fun stuff now.
Running boats like this for 10 seconds costs nothing compared to a mega yacht.
i doubt the actual motorsports are the biggest carbon emissions of stuff like this
Check out SailGP. It’s got some flaws, but they did actually manage to design a sailboat race that goes fast enough to actually be interesting to watch in real-time.
flaws
I mean, i’m certainly ok with a fully electric motorboat
That time was like 30 years ago. Now we can either stop using them altogether and have a bad time, or we can keep using them and have a slightly more bad time.