Extreme Sailing Series update, Emirates Team New Zealand return to contest 2014 season

From the following press release by the Extreme Sailing Series:

http://www.extremesailingseries.com/news/view/emirates-team-new-zealand-go-extreme#.Ut70cK99LFd

Emirates Team New Zealand have today been confirmed as the tenth team on the Extreme Sailing
Series™ starting blocks for 2014, with legendary America’s Cup skipper Dean Barker. With a further Series team announcement in the coming weeks, a full grid of 11 teams will embark on the eight stop global tour, which starts in Singapore in just over four weeks, with the first starting gun on the 20th February.

London 2012 silver medal winning 49er duo Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who last week were announced as part of the Kiwi development squad for the 35th America’s Cup, will join Barker. While the pair are currently campaigning for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Barker and Burling will share skipper duties, as Barker explained: “I will skipper five. We will rotate sailing squad members through the other crew positions. Between the two of us we will be able to field competitive crews through the year.”

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Emirates Team New Zealand back to contest 2014 series, photo courtesy Extreme Sailing Series