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Kiwis announce defending Kenwood Cup Team

by Susan McKeag 2 Jun 2000 07:04 BST
The Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron has announced the New Zealand Team selected to defend the Kenwood Cup in 2000. The New Zealand Team will include Mick Cookson's new Farr 47 HIGH FIVE #5, Naohiko Sera's new Farr 47 SEA HAWK and Hideo Matsuda's Farr 45 BIG APPLE III. The team reserve yacht will be Andrew Taylor's Davidson 55 ANDIAMO. BIG APPLE III was the winning boat in the '98 Kenwood Cup and this year will be crewed mostly by members of Team New Zealand with Dean Barker as skipper. SEA HAWK will have Ray Davies as skipper, Tom Dodson as tactician, George Hendy as navigator and Team New Zealand's Mathew Mason at the mast. HIGH FIVE #5 owner Mick Cookson has put together a strong crew with Harry Dodson, David Barnes, Nick Heron and Chris Salthouse among them. Team Manger for the New Zealand Team will be Brett Neill who's Cookson 39 WHITE CLOUD was a member of the winning Kenwood Cup team in 1998.

USA NAMES TWO KENWOOD CUP TEAMS

US SAILING has announced that two USA Teams have been selected to challenge for the Kenwood Cup this year and a third team may still be selected. The USA RED Team will include the new Farr 50 ESMERALDA owned by Makoto Uematsu and skippered by Ken Read, John Kilroy's 1999 World Champion Farr 40 OD SAMBA PA TI and Philippe Kahn's Farr 40 OD ORION. The USA WHITE Team will include Seth Radow's highly optimized Sydney 41 GLAMA!, Scooter Simmons Sydney 41 CHA-CHING and Doug Taylor's Farr 40 OD ZAMBONI. The USA BLUE Team is currently under consideration.

FARR 40 OD PACIFIC REGION CHAMPIONSHIP

The Farr 40 OD Class has designated Kenwood Cup 2000 as their Pacific Region Championship for this year. So far four boats have entered the series including John Kilroy's SAMBA PA TI, Philippe Kahn's ORION, Doug Taylor's ZAMBONI and Hiroshi Kusu's FOUNDATION, the latter a charter from Australia. Additional entries for the Pacific Region Championship are expected after the Farr 40 World Championship being held in Newport, RI June 6-9.

Kenwood Cup 2000 begins July 31 and ends August 9, 2000.

More Information: www.kenwoodcup.com

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