Poole admitted that he was ‘bummed’ not to have got his fledgling AC38 challenge over the line, but told me he had absolutely no regrets about giving it a go.
“A lot of people would have been too scared of the negative possibilities and just decide that it wasn’t even worth trying,” he said. “It was a ‘you won’t know unless you go’ kind of scenario. I knew I was getting into the deep end by doing this.
“The America’s Cup is the pinnacle of our sport and the amount that I have learned in the last four months has been incredible. Although it didn’t come to fruition for us to get to Naples next summer, we have made huge headway and we’ve definitely developed a lot of really valuable connections through our team.”