The incoming Brazilian team has acquired ROCKWOOL DEN grinder Richard Mason, signing him as strategist for the 2025 Season.
Mason is a SailGP veteran, having raced with the British, Swiss and Danish teams in Season 2, 3 and 4 respectively.
However his appointment to the Brazilian team sees him take on the new role of strategist, pivoting away from his previous grinder positions. It comes after Mason was recently seen training with the fledgling team during an off-season training camp in Bermuda.
Before SailGP, Mason competed in numerous world championships, winning the Extreme Sailing Series in 2017, and competing as part of the British Challenger team for the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland, 2021.
Mason is the fourth member to Brazil’s crew line-up to be announced following the appointments of driver Martine Grael and grinding partnership Marco Grael and Mateus Isaac.
It comes after team CEO Alan Adler said he had secured ‘amazing, experienced athletes’ for Brazil’s first Championship campaign.
