Sebastien Scheitner
The Switzerland SailGP Team may be new to SailGP this season but the Swiss syndicate led by 23-year-old Sebastien Scheitner in fact originates from the young skipper’s GC32 crew, Team Tilt.
Team Tilt won the CC32 World Championship title in 2017 and the following year were named Swiss sailing team of the year. At the recent GC32 worlds in Lagos Portugal this year the team finished fourth.
In parallel, Scheitner has also been successful as an Olympic campaigner in the 49er class having established himself as a regular top ten finisher on the international circuit and representing his country at the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Games.
Scheitner told me that the Team Tilt concept had been born at the 2013 Youth America’s Cup in San Francisco when the fledgling team finished fourth overall and has been evolving ever since.
“The goal with that project was really to give an opportunity to young Swiss sailors to race at an international level against the best sailors in the world.,” he said.
“We started with the Youth America’s Cup and …