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By Nick Mulvenney

SYDNEY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - SailGP go back to where it all started in Sydney this weekend and six years on from the inaugural race, co-founder Russell Coutts sees an intense future for the innovative global sailing league.

An Olympic champion and skipper of three Americas Cup-winning boats, Coutts coordinated with Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of the Oracle software business, to introduce the series with 6 groups all owned by the league.

While the inaugural season which kicked off in Sydney in February 2019 featured just five rounds, this weekend's race will be the 3rd round of 13 the now 12-strong fleet will contest on the 2025-26 schedule.

"It's just incredible, actually, the uptake and number of occasions 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 contrast is not far from the mark when the world's finest sailors push the F50 hindering catamarans to their limitations at what are awesome speeds for waterborne vessels.

"We didn't set out to just interest the avid sailing fan, we try to make this sport reasonable and explainable for all sports fans," Coutts included.

"The majority of our fans are not devoted sailors, and that's one of the reasons we've grown so rapidly. We are appealing to people that similar to enjoying a race, they do not need to understand anything about sailboats."

A bumper crowd of 25,000 ticketed fans turned out to enjoy Tom Slingsby's Australia team win the second round of the series in Auckland last month.

"I think you'll see several of our events this year now like that, perhaps even topping that," said Coutts, engel-und-waisen.de a 62-year-old New Zealander.

"The most crucial thing is the fans viewing on broadcast ... but the fan experience on site is also essential. We want fans to come and have an excellent time and see some great racing."

Technological development is integral to SailGP and hundreds of countless information points are communicated from the boats to the Oracle Cloud for using race organisers, groups and to assist broadcasters enhance the viewer experience.

360 DEGREE VIEW

Coutts is excited about some more innovations coming online as Artificial Intelligence is significantly employed to overcome the mountain of data.

"The big advancement for us moving forward is the 360 degree view from on board the boat, with listening to the group comms," he said.

"The viewer will be taken on board and ride in addition to the Australian group in a race, and be able to browse wherever they want. That's the future."

There have, bytes-the-dust.com of course, been obstacles over the six years with the second season interfered with by the and race days still sometimes at the grace of wind conditions.

A shortage of F50s indicated the French group was unable to contend 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 one of the most pleasing elements for Coutts is that all but among the groups are, or soon will be, independently owned or run.

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

"We understood that that was the whole method the design was established, that team owners would be able to trade their groups and ideally generate income out of it, however I didn't believe we 'd attain it this early. That's been a great surprise." (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, modifying by Michael Perry)