Emirates Team New Zealand became only the second syndicate to launch their new generation yacht on the weekend after South African team Shosholoza.
According to the NZ Herald, Emirates Team New Zealand managing director Grant Dalton said the boat’s maiden voyage went well.
“We have had no problems and you can’t deduce anything other than that.
“We have […]
Team New Zealand will try out some different sailing combinations but are still looking for results in the next phase of America’s Cup pre-regattas starting in Sweden on the 25th of August.
With the regattas now counting towards the 2007 challenger series, the Emirates-sponsored syndicate are the top ranked challenger after the opening two-race series in […]
Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton is miffed by suggestions that double Olympic gold medallist Ben Ainslie is unhappy with his role in the syndicate.
Ainslie has chosen to forfeit his position as strategist on the race boat in favour of developing his skills as a helmsman on the B boat - a position he shares […]
BRITAIN’S two young aspiring match racers had contrasting fortunes at the Toscana Elba Cup yesterday. Ben Ainslie was knocked out in the first-round repechage having won four matches, while Iain Percy went through in the other half of the draw with only three victories.
Ainslie, sailing with four crew from Emirates Team New Zealand, including Andy […]
Team New Zealand will seriously fear just two of the 10 other challengers confirmed for the 32nd America’s Cup in 2007.
That is Peter Montgomery’s take on the final makeup of the Louis Vuitton fleet ready to fight for the right to challenge Swiss holders Alinghi for the Auld Mug in Valencia, Spain.
The defending Swiss yacht […]
Emirates Team New Zealand is fielding three crews on the international match racing circuit this year, skippered by Dean BARKER (NZL), Kelvin HARRAP (NZL) and Ben AINSLIE (GBR).
Emirates Team New Zealand join the list of America’s Cup teams to confirm their line ups for the major ISAF Graded Match Race events of the European Spring […]
Team New Zealand is close to securing another major sponsorship deal which would all but complete their funding for Valencia 2007.
Rumours abound the new backer is a giant Spanish brewery.
Team boss Grant Dalton is giving little away, apart from saying the deal is nearly done.
However, Dalton admits the contract negotiations are the most difficult he […]
Despite winning three Olympic sailing medals - two of them gold - it looks as if there will not be any place for Ben Ainsley in the next Americas Cup.
The Briton has been part of the Team New Zealand afterguard but looks set to miss out on a place in the actual sailing crew in […]
Kevin Shoebridge, the day-to-day boss of Emirates Team New Zealand, chuckles at the irony of Auckland’s fickle weather. Two summers ago, sailors sat and waited for days on end for a fair wind to blow on the Hauraki Gulf to race in the America’s Cup. Now, with the silverware elsewhere, the summer winds have been […]
Emirates Team New Zealand are ready to embark on the next part of their mission to reclaim the America’s Cup.
The syndicate’s summer training programme in Auckland has ended and the team are now packing up and heading to Europe for this year’s six pre-cup regattas or “acts”.
NZL82 will be shipped to Valencia next week for […]
Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker beat former boss Russell Coutts in the final of the Congressional Cup in California yesterday in their first encounter since the disastrous America’s Cup defence.
Following on from Emirates Team New Zealand’s success in last year’s pre-cup regattas in Europe, Barker edged out Coutts and his Danish crew 2-1 in […]
The team, skippered by New Zealander Dean BARKER (NZL), who is currently competing in the ISAF Grade 1 Congressional Cup in California, USA, has used the southern hemisphere summer to test hulls, appendages and sails.
By the end of next week, the programme will have been completed and the team will pack up and prepare for […]
Former Team New Zealand boss, Tom Schnackenberg, has taken legal action against the team, claiming it has deliberately shut him out of the next America’s Cup.
The veteran sailor and boat designer, who held the syndicate together when Russell Coutts and Brad Butterworth defected to Alinghi in 2000, has lodged papers in the High Court at […]
Pavilion Technologies, a world leader in advanced process control (APC) and environmental compliance solutions, announced on Monday, 14th March, 2005 that it is an official supplier for Emirates Team New Zealand, challengers in the 32nd America’s Cup which will take place in 2007 in Valencia, Spain.
As part of the agreement, Emirates Team New Zealand will […]
Vodafone’s sponsorship of Team New Zealand, announced on Tuesday, is worth “well north” of seven figures and will see the America’s Cup team’s telecommunications supplied exclusively by Vodafone New Zealand until 2007.
For the first time, Team New Zealand boats will be able to transfer data in real time to analysts on the shore, rather than […]
The Hauraki Gulf in Auckland was reacquainted with America’s Cup racing yesterday when NZL81 took on German stablemate NZL68 in the first of Team New Zealand’s inhouse races.
The racing gives the crews a chance to brush up on their skills before the first of this year’s pre-regattas in June but its main purpose is to […]
Ben Ainslie and Shirley Robertson’s “three blondes in a boat” have capped a golden year for British sailing by being named in the New Year honours.
Ainslie, who triumphed in the Finn class at the Athens Olympics, has become an OBE.
Beijing is something Ainslie must also make a decision about but for different reasons.
He is […]
Emirates Team New Zealand is back in the water at its home base in Auckland after a successful 2004 European campaign. Having won this year’s Louis Vuitton season trophy for the pre-regattas held in Marseille and Valencia earlier this year, the team has re-grouped and is ready for an intense training period in the waters […]
Branded in the new Team New Zealand colours, the first German-built America’s Cup yacht felt the water ripple under her hull for the first time yesterday in Auckland’s Viaduct Harbour.
Built by the illbruck syndicate for last year’s Cup, a lack of finance meant the yacht was never completed, and as a result the lime-coloured hull […]
RUSSELL COUTTS
In a blaze of glorious sniping and told-you-so’s, Russell Coutts and Alinghi were spectacularly divorced, with both parties proving that it was not an amicable split. Billionaire America’s Cup syndicate winner Ernesto Bertarelli dished the dirt by returning an aggrieved Coutts’ fire with news that Coutts’ salary did not lag behind that of Swiss […]