Viability Lab will launch SailGL (Great Lakes) as the first regional spin-off proposed by SailGP, created to Champion a World Powered by Nature and Racing for a Better Future. The SailGP Inspire program is a community, education, and outreach initiative focused on inclusivity and diversity while providing ESG experiential opportunities and new career pathways to the next generation. Powered by the belief that sailing can be a force for good with a purpose-led Race for the Future agenda, it attracts not only participants but supporters and investors as well.

 

The Great Lakes freshwater system is the largest on planet Earth, and in one of the nation's most iconic, strategic, and sensitive waterways in that system-the Straits of Mackinac-Viability Lab is fostering systemic change to restore health to multiple ecosystems and initiate environmental education and restoration, impacting residents, visitors, and the land and waterways of northern Michigan.

 

While we may not be as salty as our ocean-sailing counterparts, the Straits are the epicenter of the Freshwater Sail Racing World, hosting the world's two longest, most celebrated freshwater sailing races. While #RaceToMackinac is the global call for freshwater sail racers, we're thrilled at the possibility of adding the moniker of SailGP's #RaceForTheFuture by aligning with an organization that shares our commitment to making every marine system clean, healthy, and sustainable for all.