I have yet to meet GB1’s latest signing Jemima Lines, but from everything I have read about her in the British mainstream media over the past 24 hours, two things are clear. First, she's a major badass – and second, her résumé is a breath of fresh air when it comes to America’s Cup sailor signings.
It will come as no surprise to readers that the 29-year-old’s background combines elite-level competition experience in the British Olympic Sailing Team (where she was understudy to gold-medal-winning kite surfer Ellie Aldridge at Paris 2024) with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering (pretty much a prerequisite for any aspiring America’s Cup sailor in this current era of semi-automated, AI-driven, foiling boats).
I was digging through my audio interview file system over the weekend, when I discovered an interesting unused chat I had a few months ago with New Zealand sailor Jason Saunders at the launch of the French America’s Cup challenger La Roche-Posay Racing Team in Lorient.
Last week I made a ‘trains, planes, and automobiles’ round trip to attend an update presentation on Giovanni Soldini’s Ferrari Hypersail project at the spectacular all-new North Sails loft in Genoa, Italy.
