Tuke, Burling and Coutts...short of a match-ready boat. Photo/PhotosportPeter Burling and Blair Tuke's Sail GP debut could be scuttled because the Covid-19 pandemic will leave them without a boat. Sail GP boss Sir Russell Coutts is frantically trying to get a dispensation, supplying information about who does what on the New Zealand team to authorities. "The New Zealand boat arrived in Bermuda unfinished because it takes considerable time to build these boats," Coutts told Bermuda's Royal Gazette. The second season of Sail GP was abandoned last year because of the pandemic.

Source: New Zealand Herald April 13, 2021 19:52 UTC