The team will partner with Live Ocean Racing, a conduit between the pair’s ocean conservation charity Live Ocean and their sailing endeavours. Live Ocean Racing will be dedicated to using the SailGP championship to raise awareness of the charity’s mission to protect and restore the ocean, aligning with SailGP’s overall focus on sustainability and clean energy solutions.
Tuke said, “With SailGP’s significant global audience, there is an opportunity to really move the needle on the urgent need for a healthy ocean.”
“Our aim is to build a winning, commercially viable race team from New Zealand that has ocean protection and restoration in its DNA.”
The pair remain fully committed to their defence of the America’s Cup with Emirates Team New Zealand and winning another gold medal at the postponed Tokyo Olympic Games.
SailGP Season 2 events were postponed due to COVID-19, and will restart in San Francisco and New York in April and June of next year. Following the US leg of the championship, Grand Prix events will take place in each of the European team markets: the UK, Denmark, France and Spain.
The league plans to hold seven to nine events as part of Season 2 and will feature racing in the Australia/New Zealand region in the early part of 2022.
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