Schnacks sues Team New Zealand
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 Auckland claiming Team NZ’s new leadership hired him only to stop him from moving to another team.
His lawyer said yesterday: ‘Any of the syndicates would have him if they could.’
Schnackenberg, 59, was the syndicate head of the disastrous 2003 Cup Defence, after which an independent report identified the management structure as the most important reason for the failure to retain the cup.
When round-the-world helmsman Grant Dalton was brought in to manage the next challenge, Schnackenberg was demoted to the design team.
Schnacks sues Team New Zealand
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