Monthly Archives: April 2025

SailGP Back for 2026

SailGP just announced the first 6 race locations for 2026, and Halifax is back in June! From the Release:

In 2026, the Rolex SailGP Championship will set sail in Perth, Sydney, Rio de Janeiro, Bermuda, New York, Halifax, Portsmouth, Saint-Tropez and Dubai, followed by the winner-takes-all Grand Final in Abu Dhabi….

The full calendar – including remaining host cities and dates – will be confirmed in due course…
This 2025 Season, SailGP welcomed a record fleet of 12 national teams, including two new additions to the start line: the Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team and Red Bull Italy SailGP Team. The championship has confirmed plans to add two new expansion teams to its roster in 2026.

As far as the 2025 season goes, the Next race is Rio was cancelled after Australia suffered a wing failure in San Francisco. SailGP has identified a defect in the wings. New Zealand had also suffered a similar failure in a previous season. Both teams boats were built and sailed in the 2017 Americas Cup. The Next event will be in June in New York.

E-Ship 1 visits Pier 9

Enercon’s E-ship 1 made its first call to Halifax this week, delivering components for a windfarm currently under construction in Lunenburg county. The Components are being stored on Pier 9 untill they are needed then trucked to the site.

E-ship 1 is propelled by 4 Fletner rotors, which make use of the magnus effect to propel the ship. Essentially the spinning rotors create a low pressure area, which then pulls the ship forward.

E-ship 1 has called on sheet harbour in the past, but this is the ships first call in Halifax.

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