Top Kiwi Sailors
It is little wonder that New Zealand has produced a good chunk of the world's top sailors over the last 25 years. It is a country totally surrounded by sea - there is 15811km (9824 miles) of coastline.
Sir Peter Blake
Sir Peter Blake will go down in history as one of the world's great modern-day ocean sailors. He won the Whitbread round-the-world race, the Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest non-stop navigation of the globe, and the America's Cup - as head of the 1995 and 2000 America's Cup campaigns. Sir Peter (who earned a knighthood for his endeavours) was tragically killed by pirates in December 2001 while attempting to save the world's oceans and waterways through his own environmental project, blakexpeditions.
Grant Dalton
Grant Dalton has sailed around the world more times than most people would ever dream of. The Auckland yachtsman - who calls himself a ‘true Kiwi bloke’ - has made six successful circumnavigations of the globe, winning the Whitbread round-the-world race and the latest blue-ocean adventure, The Race. He is now attempting a seventh rounding in the Volvo Ocean Race (formerly the Whitbread) on board Amer Sport One.
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