NEW ZEALAND
Chief Executive:
Syndicate head/designer/navigator:
Team New Zealand
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Skipper:
Team New Zealand won the America's Cup in 1995 off San Diego in a remarkable 5-0 sweep by NZL-32 Black Magic over Young America.
Five years later, Team New Zealand became the first to successfully defend the America's Cup outside the United States when they sailed NZL-60 to
over the Italian Prada challenge. Again, the score was 5-0 for "the black boat".
After steering New Zealand to victory in the first four races of the 9-race final series in 2000, skipper Russell Coutts turned the helm over to back-up helmsman Dean Barker.
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Barker proved worthy of his mentor's faith, and confidently completed the unbeaten string against the Italians while Coutts savoured the victory from a Team NZ chase boat.
Shortly after the 2000 regatta, however, several of Team New Zealand's brightest stars, including Coutts and tactician Brad Butterworth, left to join
.
Tom Schnackenberg, who was Team New Zealand's design coordinator and navigator during the successful campaigns in 1995 and 2000, remains with the team as syndicate head and design coordinator.
, who had led the 1995 and 2000 campaigns, also announced he was stepping down. He joined the Cousteau Society, then formed his own environmental organisation Blakexpeditions. In December 2001 he was murdered at the mouth of the Amazon River in Brazil.
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New boats:
,
,
Trial horses:
(built for the 2000 cup defence)
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(successful defender in 2000)
Club:
The team
(* indicates 2000 Team NZ veteran)
*
(bowman)
*
(back-up helmsman, strategist, navigator)
(grinder)
(traveller)
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(design team)
*
(trimmer)
(helmsman on training boat)
Tom Dodson (tactician/strategist)
*
(principal designer)
*
(tactician/strategist)
*
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(sailmaker)
Ben Fletcher (sail loft)
Daniel Fong (trimmer)
Jamie France (design team)
Paul Gudgeon (sail loft)
(bowman)
* Jared Henderson (pitman)
* Nick Heron (runner/floater)
Nick Holrod (design team)
Zachary Hurst (trimmer)
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Andrew Kensington (design team)
* Jeremy Lomas (bowman)
*
(trimmer)
*
(grinder)
*
(runner/pitman)
Lance Manson (rigger)
Roy Mason (shore crew)
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(grinder)
*
(pitman)
*
(bowman)
(design team)
* Chris Mitchell (rig design coordinator)
*
(mid bowman)
Andrew Nottage (shore crew)
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*
(principal designer)
Craig Oxenham (shore crew)
(sailing coach and back-up helmsman)
Pace was skipper of the French Le Defi challenge in 1999.
*
(tactician)
Loren Poole (designer)
*
(mainsail trimmer)
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Selwyn Ross (shore crew)
(mainsheet)
(pitman)
(trimmer)
(tactician, traveller)
David Slyfield (fitness trainer)
(grinder)
Jason Squire (shore crew)
Neville Thorpe (shore crew)
(grinder)
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*
grinder/mastman)
(mastman)
(strategist)
Directors:
Peter J Menzies
Ralph Norris
John Risley
Kevin Roberts
Jumped ship:
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