Team New Zealand skipper Dean Barker and veteran Stars and Stripes navigator Peter Isler will be on Pyewacket in the 42nd Transpacific yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in July.
The record-holding Reichel and Pugh-designed 77-footer will be sailing its last race for Roy Disney, who has sold theboat to an undisclosed Asian buyer to make room for his maxZ86, now under construction in Auckland.
Meanwhile, Alinghi skipper Russell Coutts is one of several America's Cup helmsman who will compete in the King Edward VII Gold Cup in Bermuda in October.
The event, which is the second on the Swedish Match Tour 2003/4, has attracted former OneWorld skipper Peter Gilmour, Oracle sailors Chris Dickson and Peter Holmberg, and Stars and Stripes skipper Dennis Conner.
