ETNZ

A team with individual and collective experience of success on the MedCup Circuit and every facet of it, what to do – and what not to do – to win. Ray Davies was instrumental in the success of Peter de Ridder’s Mean Machine in 2006 and Dean Barker (skipper) has been a regular on the helm of regatta winning TP52’s but this will be the first time that ETNZ has stepped up to the plate on their own terms, with their own boat.

They launched, sea trialled, tuned and tested at home before the boat – a development of the 2008 Circuit winner Quantum – was shipped to Europe. A team to watch.

Skipper and helmsman: Dean Barker (NZL)
CEO and mast man: Grant Dalton.
Key crew members: Tactician, Ray Davies (NZL); Navigator, Kevin Hall (USA); Bowman, Jeremy Lomas (NZL); Mainsail trimmer, Don Cowie (NZL); Trimmers, James Dagg (NZL) and Grant Loretz (NZL).

NZL  380
Member:  Dean Barker  
Designer: Botin Carkeek    
Builder:    Cookson
Website:  www.emiratesteamnz.com
Contact:   dean.barker@emiratesteamnz.com

Photos Rob Crawford and Chris Cameron.