Reynolds steered his team’s fully foiling F50 racing trimaran that clocked speeds over 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) prior to the official racing on Bermuda’s Great Sound.
Ok, so. Ryan Reynolds is not the only charismatic movie star who also happens to be smart, attractive, and wealthy due to numerous business ventures that augment his movie appearance fees. He’s not even the only charismatic movie star—who also happens to be smart, attractive, and wealthy—to own part of a professional sports team. In fact, he’s part owner in more than one team. But that’s not news either.
However, Ryan Reynolds did make some news at the SailGP Apex Group Bermuda Sail Grand Prix this weekend. That’s because instead of just looking cool and posing for photos with the Australian Bonds Flying Roos SailGp team he co-owns with another charismatic movie star who also happens to be smart, attractive, and wealthy—Hugh Jackman. Reynolds donned a helmet, felt the spray on his face, the G-forces on his body, and actually steered his team’s wingsail powered, fully foiling F50 racing trimaran that clocked speeds over 55 miles per hour (90 km/h) prior to the official racing on Bermuda’s Great Sound.
And you know what, even the fact that Reynolds jumped aboard his team’s boat in Bermuda probably isn’t all that news worthy either. But, I was compelled to run this fun little story because of what he said after ripping around Bermuda’s blue blue water with skipper Tom Slingsby and his crew.
“The most insane thing I’ve ever experienced,” Reynolds said. “It was crazy. The world needs to know more about this. It’s really nuts.”
And I will say from my own first-hand experience sailing aboard on of these amazingly fast boats myself, he’s right. Sailing well over twice the wind speed on a wing-sail-powered fully foiling F50 racing catamaran that creates F1-level G-forces is insane. In a good way.
But, I’m also humble enough to know that lots more people will care about what Ryan Reynolds thinks about the speed and excitement of SailGP racing than a psudo-preppy yachting journalist thinks. And I’m totally cool with that! As a life long sailor who’d followed the development of the SailGP since the aftermath of the 2017 America’s Cup in Bermuda (where Oracle Team USA lost the Cup to Emirates Team New Zealand), I love seeing events like the SailGP and others continue to evolve and grow. And if Ryan Reynolds helps turn more people on to the power, beauty and excitement of ultra-high-performance boat racing, I’m all for that too.
And oh yeah, his team (Bonds Flying Roos) won this weekend’s event in Bermuda that marked the fifth stop in the 2026 season for the Rolex SailGP Championship. The next stop of the Rolex SailGP Championship is the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix that’s scheduled to take place from May 30-31 on the Hudson. I’m pretty sure that’ll have some star-studded excitement to report on too. Stay tuned.
This story was originally published on forbes.com and all figures are in USD.
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