Sail GP in SF
Join Bay Lights Charters aboard one of our Bristol yachts for the race of the season!
SEEING IS BELIEVING
SailGP returns to San Francisco for the Season 3 Grand Final, May 6-7, 2023! Experience a fan-focused, two-day spectacle of exhilarating races, intense rivalries and action-packed entertainment! The Best way to witness the races is on the water. Grab group of up to 49 and watch the modern sailboats race aboard Gas Light, our 72-foot tall ship schooner. These races are intense, so fast, and unbelievable to witness. If you don’t have a larger group, charter Blue Skies, our 35-foot trawler with up to 6 of your favorite people. You won’t be sorry! This event makes for an unforgettable time spent on San Francisco Bay. Your backdrop will be the city by the bay waterfront as well as Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito to name a few! Truly iconic views. Don’t miss this opportunity!
RACING THAT WILL TAKE YOUR BREATH AWAY
SailGP has to be seen to be believed, it is true.
Featuring the sport’s best world class athletes racing in identical F50 catamarans, national teams battle it out in short, intense races, flying or so it seems as the boats foil at impressive speeds in excess of 60 mph. And, you will be able to be there to witness the most exciting racing on water in person with your crew.
Following 12 months of intense racing – in some of the most iconic venues around the globe – the nine teams come together at the SailGP Grand Final to decide the overall season champion, right here on San Francisco Bay. This will be history in the making!
Experience the thrills, spills, daring maneuvers and near misses as the nine teams push the limits in races that are decided by inches. Even if you haven’t been following the elimination races or sailing at all it is a day you and your friends won’t soon forget. Being on the water, aboard a yacht is always something to brag about but being on the water for a world wide racing event is like no other… WOW!
Get up close to the action and witness who will be crowned the next SailGP Season Champions! Come Join the Fun!
WHEN AND WHERE
May 6-7, from 2:30pm each day.
The United States Sail Grand Prix takes place on San Francisco Bay just off Marina Green with the race course set between Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge. If you charter a yacht you will have a front row seat for the action.
ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO
One of the United States' most iconic cities, San Francisco is full of exciting experiences and inspiring culture - making it a premium travel destination. There are the famous cable cars to transport you from stunning scenery to outstanding restaurants, as well as the colorful and crooked Lombard Street. San Francisco Bay itself is one of the most iconic sailing venues across the globe, and has become a regular fixture on the SailGP calendar.
Want to know more about SF? San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/; Spanish for "Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021.[20] It covers a land area of 46.9 square miles (121 square kilometers),[21] at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749[22]) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021.[23] Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include SF, San Fran, The City, Frisco, and Baghdad by the Bay.[24][25][26]
San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences,[27][28] spurred by leading universities,[29] high-tech, healthcare, FIRE, and professional services sectors.[30] As of 2020, the metropolitan area, with 6.7 million residents, ranked 5th by GDP ($874 billion) and 2nd by GDP per capita ($131,082) across the OECD countries, ahead of global cities like Paris, London, and Singapore.[31][32][33] San Francisco anchors the 13th most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 4.6 million residents, and the fourth-largest by aggregate income and economic output, with a GDP of $669 billion in 2021.[34] The wider San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area is the fifth most populous, with 9.5 million residents, and the third-largest by economic output, with a GDP of $1.25 trillion in 2021. In the same year, San Francisco proper had a GDP of $236.4 billion, and a GDP per capita of $289,990.[34] San Francisco was ranked seventh in the world and third in the United States on the Global Financial Centres Index as of March 2022.[35]
As of June 2022, the Bay Area was home to four of the world's fifteen largest companies by market capitalization,[36] and the city proper is headquarters to companies such as Wells Fargo, Salesforce, Uber, First Republic Bank, Airbnb, Twitter, Block, Levi's, Gap, Dropbox, PG&E, Lyft, and Cruise, although the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the exodus of business from downtown San Francisco.[37][38] The city is home to a number of educational and cultural institutions, such as the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the University of San Francisco (USF), San Francisco State University (SFSU), the de Young Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Ballet, the San Francisco Opera, the SFJAZZ Center, the California Academy of Sciences, the San Francisco Giants, and the Golden State Warriors. A popular tourist destination,[39] San Francisco is known for its steep rolling hills and eclectic mix of architecture across varied neighborhoods, as well as its cool summers, fog, and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, Alcatraz, and Chinatown and Mission districts.
San Francisco was founded on June 29, 1776, when colonists from Spain established the Presidio of San Francisco at the Golden Gate and Mission San Francisco de Asís a few miles away, both named for Francis of Assisi.[3] The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, transforming an unimportant hamlet into a busy port making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time; between 1870 and 1900, approximately one quarter of California's population resided in the city proper.[23] In 1856, San Francisco became a consolidated city-county.[40] After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire,[41] it was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, it was a major port of embarkation for naval service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater.[42] It then became the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945.[43][44][45] After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, significant immigration, liberalizing attitudes, the rise of the "beatnik" and "hippie" countercultures, the sexual revolution, the peace movement growing from opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States. More recently, statewide droughts in California have strained the city's water security.[46][47]
SEE IT. FEEL IT. BE THERE
Catch all the action from the water, on the water is the best way to be a part of this epic sailing event!
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