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Video Feature
Re-live the action of America's Cup 2000 |
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Open Movie
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Team New Zealand's Going Gets Tougher
| Team New Zealand sails ahead of Prada's Luna Rossa. |
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Within weeks of successfully defending the America's Cup during the 2000 campaign, both Team New Zealand skipper Russell Coutts and tactician Brad Butterworth departed to take up positions with the new Swiss-based Alinghi syndicate. Tom Schnackenberg, new CEO Ross Blackman and skipper Dean Barker steadied ship and filled the gaps with new blood of outstanding talent and experience.
Since summer 2000-01, the black boats have been training extensively on the Hauraki Gulf in preparation for the 2003 Cup Challenge.
The Defender
Country: New Zealand
Yacht Club: Royal New Zealand Squadron
Syndicate Manager: Ross Blackman (CEO)
Principal Sponsors: SAP, Telecom, Toyota, Lotto and Steinlager
Team New Zealand Afterguard
Sailing Manager and Skipper: Dean Barker
Helmsman: Betrand Pace and Cameron Appleton
Design Team Leader: Tom Schnackenberg
Principal Designers: Clay Oliver and Mike Drummond
Weatherman: Roger Badham
Team size: 85
About the Black Boat
Boat Builder: Cookson Boats
Sails: North Sails
Spars: Southern Spars
Tenders: Rayglass Protector
Generation 2000 Yachts: NZL57 - Black Magic and NZL60 - Black Magic (won America's Cup 2000)
Generation 2003 Yachts: NZL81 and NZL82 were launched in August and September 2002, and named New Zealand.
For more information on Team New Zealand visit www.teamnewzealand.com
Other Facts and Figures
- The America's Cup is sterling silver and weighs 134oz. Made in 1848 in London by Garrard, the Crown Jeweller for the First Marquis of Anglesey, its cost today would be approximately GBP100,000.
- The original America's Cup is priceless. Known as the 100 Guineas Cup and first raced for on the 22nd of August 1851, it is engraved with the results of every America's Cup race since.
- New Zealand was the first nation outside the United States to successfully defend the America's Cup, when Team New Zealand beat Prada 5-0 in the cup match in March 2000.
- Eighty superyachts visited Auckland during the 1999/2000 Louis Vuitton Cup and America's Cup series. Fortunately Auckland had the largest superyacht marina in the Southern Hemisphere to berth them.
- On average, 1990 spectator craft of all shapes and sizes went out on the Hauraki Gulf each day of the 1999/2000 America's Cup Regatta to watch Team New Zealand do battle with the Italian Challenger, Prada.
- The 1999/2000 Regatta attracted 1514 accredited media to the Louis Vuitton America's Cup media centre on Auckland's waterfront.
- During the six months of the 1999/2000 Cup festivities, 4.2 million people visited the America's Cup Village - a purpose-built harbourside quarter which housed all 12 competing syndicates and became the entertainment heart of Auckland.
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