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Not much new out of the Sydney SailGP Press Conference today…Welcome Diago Boutin to the table!

Presenting Rita’s new wrap (picture courtesy of SailGP).

It’s gonna be quite strange to see…

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SO MANY RED & WHITE BOATS on the water that announcer Todd Harris is gonna get even more confused.

Great for the league and that team, in particular. They certainly don’t seem to have any problem finding sponsorships.

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Welcome Spirit to the SailGP family of boats!

Go Canada Go! Go Spirit 🇨🇦! Named after the Team’s adopted Orca, to promote conservation with their partner OceanWise.

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It’s already January 1, 2023 in New Zealand, so Happy New Year and Happy Birthday to the one and only Peter (Pete) Burling!

Pete, you’ve had a terrifically busy year and I hope you’re celebrating today!

Let’s do a quick recap of your 2022 highs (and a few lows imho).

January

Negotiating personally and professionally (you know the ones) during your summer vacation

February

Re-signing with Team NZ (ETNZ) for the AC37 Cup cycle, with you as Skipper

March

Improving results to a respectable 5th place finish to the second season of Sail GP in San Francisco

Co-led the team to the inaugural win in the Sail GP Impact League

April

Launched Live Ocean Racing with the Women’s Race team to compete in the Open ETF26 Grand Prix series with Liv Mackey as inaugural Skipper

Partnering with Zhik in supporting Live Ocean Racing

Waka Hourua Voyage with Live Ocean Foundation up the Northland coast

May

Team NZ Live Ocean Racing lines up in Bermuda for the start of Sail GP Season 3

June

Frustrating Sail GP Chicago event, nearly reaching the podium race

Supposedly privately proposing to “your girlfriend” in New York City afterwards 🤢

Voices for a Healthy Ocean - a Declaration by sporting and ocean communities - presented by you and Blair at the United Nations World Ocean Conference in Lisbon, Portugal

July

Partnering with Omega to support Live Ocean Foundation and Live Ocean Racing

Making your first final at the Sail GP Plymouth event and winning the event

Topping the Sail GP Impact League and sailing podium at the same event - first time ever for a Sail GP team (thumbs nose at the Aussies)

August

Being featured, along with the Team, in Sail GP Episode 3, “Cracking the F50 Code”

Dominating all three qualifying races, as well as winning the podium race in the Sail GP Copenhagen event

NZ team moves to second in the overall Sail GP standings

September

Co-Helming the new AC40 for ETNZ

Part of the Judging Panel for the 2022 World Sailing 11th Hour Racing Sustainability Award

October

Winning the friendly waka race on the Avon river over Blair’s team to promote the upcoming March 2023 Sail GP event in Otautahi-Christchurch

Testing and a gentle capsize of the ETNZ AC40 (boat and crew unharmed)

November

NZ Team awarded penalty points in scorching hot, light wind Sail GP Dubai event, but team remains in second place

Celebrating Jesse Tuke’s (finally public) win in Celebrity Treasure Island with the $110K NZ charitable donation to Live Ocean Foundation

Discovered the structural weakness in the bow of the AC40 (crew unharmed), making it safer for the entire one-design fleet to be used in the AC37 Womens and Youth Cups

December

Helming the second LEQ12 boat for ETNZ out on the Waitemata habour

Approving your engagement to be finally reported/leaked publicly 😝 lol

Being hailed as the ‘Biggest Sailing Geek’ by your fellow Sail GP sailors in their 2022 Yearbook posting

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Not much new out of the Tech Walk and the Press Conference…

… except NZ docked 4 penalty points AGAIN for touching USA boat’s rudder during the practice races (sigh).

Kyle Langford off AUS boat due to back injury (get well Kyle, but enjoy your longish Swedish home stay) but Ed Powys will slip right in, so no real changes or threat to their top of the podium lead.

Canada still narrowly leading the Impact League race. Hannah Mills back from her pregnancy and back on board Team GB boat.

They will be sailing in a 4-person configuration for Saturday and likely for Sunday as well, as winds predicted to be light all weekend.

Some sailors are delighted to be off the boat (Josh Junior) and leaving the grinding to others (Liv Mckay).

My predictions for this weekend:

Top 3 boats to make it to the final will be GBR, DEN and NZ. USA have also be a threat with Rome Kirby back on board, but consistency will be their ever present problem. CAN will also be a definite threat as Phil has sailed here and knows what to expect. SUI may also do better, due to their expertise and coaching for light wind conditions. FRA, SPA and AUS will fizzle out.

For a change, this humble blogger is not staying up for the first day races to watch it live! It is a little too late here in 🇨🇦. Maybe Sunday’s races!

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My headline: Christchurch SailGP Contingency and Conservation Controversy Continues.

The latest - 2023May24 NZ article link above.

This originally came to my notice from a 2023May18 article linked below which republished a Newsroom article.

To quickly summarize: Dolphin contingency plan in place approved by NZ Department of Conservation (DOC). Plan involves trained observers in boats, drones and acoustic detectors in the water and DOC observers in the race control booth. Racing of Sail GP vessels to halt (skippers to ensure team boats fall off the foils) if dolphins sited within marine sanctuary waters and also within 300m distances of race markers.

Plan followed and used to adjust practice times and practice races. Also invoked during the first day of racing, which delayed the start of racing (2023Mar18)

Second day of racing (2023Mar19) - no problems. During the final race, a pair of dolphins were sighted by observer boats, possibly within the 300m radius of a certain distance of the final turn marker, while the raceboats turning away from the area of potential sighting towards the finish line near the shore. Canada SailGP team victorious.

April2023 - DOC investigation launched. Conclusion that DOC observers can’t actually be sure that dolphins within the 300m zone and therefore no breach of NZ legislation.

My thoughts on this “controversy”:

A. No one wants to see endangered aquatic species hurt or their behaviour altered due to a sporting event. However, these Hector’s dolphins or any other aquatic species don’t generally wear e-tags. If the drones and/or acoustic detectors didn’t or couldn’t pick up their location during the final race and all they had to go on were the boat observers, of course the DOC observers can’t be sure if there was a breach of the Plan, let alone the NZ legislation. This may be compounded by questions about the dolphin observer boat behaviour throughout the entire event.

B. As an outsider, I was quite surprised at the number of spectator boats on the water at this event. I know that Kiwis love their sailing and power boating, but this would seem to be the one place and time where there was bound to be conflict between spectator boats and “race-sanctioned” boats. My unpopular opinion is to limit access to the area to the Coast Guard, race vessels, support vessels and dolphin observer vessels only. Yes, this would be disappointing to local boat owners that they can’t anchor within designated areas to watch the racing from the water. Back to the harbour, I say and encourage watching from the shore, anchored at the dock or on TV. If you want to hold a race event smack dab in a marine sanctuary, let’s plan to avoid all on-the-water conflict. And if the people aboard the dolphin observer vessels weren’t doing their jobs properly, SailGP and the DOC may want to avoid using them in the future. Possibly drop more acoustic monitors throughout the harbour and use more drones.

C. Why not interviewing the race skippers is not a big deal. Why bother? The final race boat skippers (Peter, Phil/Chris Drapper and Ben or was it Tom?) are concentrating on racing. If they were not notified by race control of a potential dolphin sighting during the final race, they would have no useful information they could add to the DOC investigation. And SailGP race control did not notify them about the reporting sighting and freely submitted that info during the DOC investigation.

D. Racing in a marine mammal sanctuary and in a small busy harbour was always a difficult proposition. Everyone involved has an interest and bias and the media coverage and the sources interviewed are revealing.

Will this cancel the 2025 event planned for Christchurch? Imho no. However, it does sound like the Dolphin Contingency Plan (dolphin vessel spotters help or hindrance? who has the last say- DOC observers or race officials? Was the right call made at the time?) and the Event Plan (local boat presence mucking up the ability of others to do their jobs) will need updating as a matter of continuous improvement.

Keep going SailGP - competitive sailing, event management and conservation interests are all navigable on and off the water. But it definitely takes work!

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Meet Sean Herbert - new up and coming NZ sailor

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Still on a high from an amazing win!

Go 🇨🇦 go!

Watch out for Season 4.

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Congrats to Yachting New Zealand and Live Ocean Racing for their educational partnership launched on Wednesday March 15, ahead of the Christchurch Sail GP event.

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Amokura has been completely refitted and passed all electrical and hydraulics system testing and is being currently transported by train from Auckland to Christchurch.

Kudos as always to the NZ-Warkwark based Sail GP tech team and Sail GP Global Tech team for their mobilization efforts.

This allows the tech team to get cracking on the rest of the fleets wings as well as the new Canada SailGP boat that were damaged by the microburst at the last event. in Sydney Australia.

Next to last Sail GP event is March 18-19 in Christchurch, NZ. Hope all 9 boats line up with a standard wing configuration.

Gotta find some kiwi snacks to celebrate - which is a tough ask in my part of the world….

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Yes, very beautiful! Oui, très belle!

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More video about the technical difficulties facing the Sail GP sail team in terms of rewiring and re-equipping Amokura.

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Team NZ solidly in second place in the overall Sail GP standings, but Amokura suffers damage from a lightning strike.

SAILGP SEASON 3 CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS (after eight events) //

1 // Australia // 68 points

2 // New Zealand // 59 points

3 // Great Britain // 54 points

4 // France // 53 points

5 // Denmark // 51 points

6 // Canada // 45 points

7 // United States // 43 points

8 // Spain // 24 points

9 // Switzerland // 23 points

*United States penalized 4 season points

*New Zealand penalized 4 season points

*Switzerland penalized 2 season points

*Spain penalized 2 season points

From the NZ Herald:

The NZ boat, ‘Amokura’, was hit by lightning while it was being transported back to the base, while the Kiwi team were onshore picking up their winners’ trophy for the event win.

In the Kiwis’ place, Switzerland driver Sebastien Schneiter, France strategist Manon Audinet and Denmark grinders Luke Payne and Martin Kirketerp were on board helping to transport ‘Amokura’.

Kirketerp, who was touching a shroud at the time, sustained an electric shock and was immediately evacuated for medical assistance.

Schneiter, Audinet and Payne, who were not injured, were evacuated from the F50 and did not return on board until after the storm had passed.

After undergoing tests and overnight observation, Kirketerp was discharged from hospital and appears to be okay.

New Zealand SailGP co-CEO and wing trimmer Blair Tuke said he was thankful no one was seriously harmed by the incident.

Amokura suffered extensive damage from the strike and it is uncertain whether she can be repaired and ready for the Sydney Sail GP event in mid-February.

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Alright, alright.

Can anyone tell me why the heck on Friday January 13th, 2023, the Singapore newspaper, The Straits Times, used this particular photo of Pete and Blair to accompany an article about Pete as the helm of the NZ Sail GP team?

This photo is 10 years outta date, and there are literally thousands of more current photos of them, together and separately, on line since they were both on Team Korea. What they couldn’t find any non-copyrighted images to use since then? Please.

Is this some sort of Asian solidarity photo pact among the “free” press?

Anyway, glad the Straits Times thinks that they remain couple goals!

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Highlights from Day 1 from SailGP from SanFrancisco

And my food related NZ snacks. Thanks @WhaiaTrading! Tasty. Go Kiwis! Canada is sailing well too.