SailGP Technologies

I was offered a job by SailGP Technologies while handing in my masters’ thesis. I wanted to be back on my feet after a summer of writing the paper. I knew I was both under- and over-qualified and it wasn’t the right indsutry for me, but it’s around cutting-edge tech, and the craft now is very high level. The boats have no safety factor, must be identical to each other, so every component has a tolerance of a single millimetre or gram. The hangar feels very much like a lab. The “engineering common sense” and workshop tidiness I learned at Crinan and sailing means that I’ve hit the ground running. The job can be high-stress and I love those moments. I am learning extreme exactness, discipline, cutting edge manufacturing, but I don’t feel challenged enough. It isn’t a directly climate nor socially conscious industry, the problem solving isn’t there, and by now I miss city life and the U.S. As much as I learn and laugh at this job, it was never going to be long-term.

What I gained from this job that is core to my future as a designer is precision. It’s visible that my undergraduate architecture projects had promising ideas, but the presentation lacked quality. I have always spent too much time ideating, and too little time creating. After Crinan, here, and some general maturing too, I feel I now possess a diligence that I used to lack.