Global sailing race coming to St. Petersburg

A global offshore sailing race will be coming to the Tampa Bay area in 2027.

The region will serve as the North American stop for the Ocean Race. During the event’s third leg, participants will depart from St. Petersburg and travel to Cascais, Portugal. This is the first time the competition has been brought to Florida’s Gulf Coast.

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County sports tourism booms, with field-space bottlenecks

Pinellas continues ramping up national and international interest in the sports sector. More teams and tournaments are finding the appeal of the county as a hot spot for competition, driven by warmer winter weather and expanding infrastructure like the $26.5 million Sprowls Horizon Sports Park, which debuted in February.

Of course, the appeal of being somewhere warm, when your hometown is insufferable to play in during the winter, isn’t new.

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