Emirates Team New Zealand: Design, Built & Racing Masters

Top: New Zealand Team members,  click to enlarge & slideshow.  Event photos: ACEA / Gilles Martin-Raget & Ricardo Pinto / TNZ –

I was about to write an article on the entire New Zealand sail , desgin & shore teams, but reading Peter Burling statements in their press release made it redundant.
In two phrases below the kid aknowledge the work done by their co workers on land on the repairs made after the hard frontal pitch and on the design and built team for the speed they had today.

Team members photos above goes representing  Artemis & all other AC Teams crews. (note Filmmaker Nick Bowers as member of TNZ, send those training reels Nick! )
Below report sent by TNZ press-  
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EMIRATES TEAM NEW ZEALAND WILL CHALLENGE FOR THE AMERICA’S CUP

Champagne celebrations for Emirates Team New Zealand…the Kiwis winning the Louis Vuitton challenger series for the fourth time and doing it in some style.

By beating Artemis 5-2 they now take on Oracle Team USA in the America’s Cup match starting next weekend.
In a seventh race against the Swedes, initially delayed by light winds, Peter Burling dominated his arch rival Nathan Outteridge in the start box, heading off to round mark one in the lead for the first time in the series final.

From then on Emirates Team New Zealand were untouchable, the Swedes with no answer to the Kiwi boat’s speed.
Upwind and downwind Aoteraoa had the measure of Artemis, with an average speed almost three knots faster than the Swedish boat.

And with slick boat-handling producing a “fly-time” on the foils of 99.7 per cent the Kiwis sailed close to a perfect race.

“The boat was going seriously fast,” said Burling. “I think we are in great shape to take on Oracle.”

Dedicating the Louis Vuitton win to the Emirates Team New Zealand shore crew, Burling praised the massive effort they’d made to repair and prepare the boat.

“They gave us the tools we needed to win and this is a great way to be able to repay them today.”
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