Team New Zealand Sailing

Intro

New Zealand has some of the best sailors in the league. Their team is based in Auckland the team head is Ross Blackman, the skipper is Dean Barker who supports his team 100%, their budget is amassive 32 Million USD.

The Story

Team New Zealand suffered a hammer blow weeks after becoming the first syndicate to successfully defend the Cup outside of America in 2000. Skipper Russell Coutts and tactician Brad Butterworth failed in the Swiss Alinghi Challenge. The team were also hit hard by the murder of Sir Peter Blake (Sir Peter Blake was murdered on a jungle trek in south Africa ), New Zealand icon and mastermind of their 1995 and 2000 Cup triumphs .

In the Americas cup the Neo Zealand team will be sailing in their vessel the hula.

The America's Cup is driven by money, passion and fervour, but principally money, and it is in the generation of this that the latest problems have arisen.

It was when the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron became the trustee holder of the Cup in 1995 that the troubles began. The Kiwis turned a profit, some of which was channelled into the defence of the Cup by Team New Zealand.

No one objected to that, at least until the lawyers decided that it was fair game for them to delve into the original 1887 Deed of Gift, where the Cup is described as being 'in trust'. Those words have opened a new can of worms.

Challenge from Switzerland, believe the funds that are surplus to the running of the Cup should be distributed between the defender and the other challengers. This has led to some outpourings by the New Zealand media with one headline reading, 'Rivals seek the Team NZ Cup Money

The warning gun is scheduled sounded at 1315 hours, Saturday 11 January 2003 , for the start of the Louis Vuitton Challenger Final. In the skippers’ coin toss to determine starting position,
For the first time in the history of the event there will be umpires on board each of the finalist boats.

Althought we are presenting the New Zealand team the Swiss Alingi Team has won the Battle

The On-board Umpire Observer System serves two purposes – to provide the umpires with information from the Vessel, and to inform the sailors of crucial information

When they are in decision making mode the umpire ‘’in Vivo’’ will be at the back of the boat where each team has put a protection bar. The umpire will not replace the 17th man position. Five umpires will be rotated through being on board a race boat and umpire boat.

The teams think it’s a great concept. “We think it’s a great thing and have always been in favor of having umpires o board to take away some of the uncertainty,” said Chris Dickson.

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