By Nick Mulvenney

SYDNEY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - SailGP returns to where everything started in Sydney this weekend and archmageriseswiki.com 6 years on from the inaugural race, Coutts sees a brilliant future for the ingenious global sailing league.

An Olympic champ and skipper of three Americas Cup-winning boats, Coutts teamed up with Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of the Oracle software application business, to introduce the series with six teams all owned by the league.

While the inaugural season which kicked off in Sydney in February 2019 included just 5 rounds, this weekend's race will be the third round of 13 the now 12-strong fleet will object to on the 2025-26 schedule.

"It's just incredible, in fact, the uptake and number of events now," SailGP chief executive Coutts told Reuters at the Sydney Opera House on Friday.

"We're certainly sitting at 13, and aiming to increase that over the next seasons to somewhere around 20. If you compare that to Formula One that has 24, that's sort of where we wish to get to. So yeah, the future appearances excellent."

The idea of Formula One on water is implicit in the league's name and the comparison is not far from the mark when the world's best sailors press the F50 hindering catamarans to their limitations at what are awesome speeds for waterborne vessels.

"We didn't set out to simply attract the devoted sailing fan, we try to make this sport easy to understand and explainable for all sports fans," Coutts added.

"Most of our fans are not passionate sailors, and that is among the reasons that we've grown so rapidly. We are attracting individuals that just like viewing a race, they don't need to understand anything about sailboats."

A bumper crowd of 25,000 ticketed fans turned out to view Tom Slingsby's Australia group win the 2nd round of the series in Auckland last month.

"I believe you'll see several of our occasions this year now like that, possibly even topping that," said Coutts, a 62-year-old New Zealander.

"The most essential thing is the fans watching on broadcast ... but the fan experience on website is also vitally crucial. We desire fans to come and have a fun time and see some terrific racing."

Technological innovation is essential to SailGP and numerous thousands of data points are relayed from the boats to the Oracle Cloud for hb9lc.org the usage of race organisers, wiki.whenparked.com groups and to assist broadcasters improve the audience experience.

360 DEGREE VIEW

Coutts is excited about some more developments coming online as Artificial Intelligence is increasingly used to overcome the mountain of information.

"The big development for us going forward is the 360 degree view from on board the boat, with listening to the team comms," he said.

"The audience will be taken on board and ride together with the Australian team in a race, and be able to browse wherever they want. That's the future."

There have, antir.sca.wiki of course, been difficulties over the 6 years with the 2nd season interrupted by the COVID pandemic and bphomesteading.com race days still sometimes at the grace of wind conditions.

A scarcity of F50s indicated the French team was unable to complete at this year's season-opening race in Dubai and damage to the boat once they got it ruled them out of the Auckland leg.

The full fleet of 12 boats will therefore race for the very first time this weekend and among the most pleasing elements for Coutts is that all however among the teams are, or quickly will be, privately owned or run.

"These groups are now offering for $50 million, I would never have predicted that this at an early stage," said Coutts, who prepares to bring another number of teams on board next year.

"We understood that that was the entire method the model was set up, that team owners would be able to trade their teams and hopefully make cash out of it, but I didn't think we 'd attain it this early. That's been a good surprise." (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, modifying by Michael Perry)