The Canadian SailGP Team is on the hot seat. They have no funding, no event next season, and a skipper that may be the most disliked in the league. Worse, two new fully-funded teams are coming, and the league is building only one boat. Canada is on the list of team’s that could lose their boat for Season 5.

Canada joined the league with a brash owner, and ironically, took another team’s boat for Season 3. Led by 2-time Match Racing World Champion Phil Robertson, who had already helmed for China and Spain, he matches his elite skill with high risk tactics.

But team owner Fred Pye failed to meet funding obligations for Season 4, the league took over the ownership, and its efforts to be relieved of this burden have not been successful. When the league did not renew the popular Season 4 Halifax event, it spoke to how events without teams don’t occur in Season 5.

“Behind the scenes, we are working hard to ensure the team is on the start line when Season 5 begins in November in Dubai,” noted Robertson, “and discussions are already underway for a Canadian event in Season 6.”

That is, if Team Canada survives.

‘Against All Odds’, the team’s Season 3 documentary, is available below: