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Dean's Diary: Extreme 40's in Turkey - Dean Barker reports By Dean Barker, Qingdao, China , 9:12 PM Thu 26 May 2011
Dean Barker, Emirates Team NZ skipper and Director of Kiwi Yachting Consultants Nexus AB, reports from Istanbul, Turkey on the Extreme40 series, in which Emirates Team NZ is competing. Sailing with Dean Barker are Glenn Ashby (AUS), James Dagg (NZL) and Richard Meacham (NZL) ...[more]

Dean's Diary: Extreme 40's in Qingdao - Dean Barker reports for Nexus By Dean Barker, Qingdao, China , 7:27 AM Tue 19 Apr 2011
Dean Barker, Emirates Team NZ skipper and Director of Kiwi Yachting Consultants Nexus AB, reports from Qingdao on the recently concluded Extreme40 series, in which Emirates Team NZ finished second overall to Luna Rossa. ...[more]

Dean Barker: America's Cup skipper and Nexus Marine Director + Video By Richard Gladwell, 8:06 AM Fri 8 Apr 2011
Emirates Team New Zealand skipper, Dean Barker leads a double life. While most know him for this exploits in three America’s Cups, he is also a Director of Auckland based Kiwi Yachting Consultants who in turn own Nexus Marine AB, the Swedish based manufacturer of marine instrumentation. ...[more]

America's Cup winning skipper to speak at Royal Akarana YC tonight By Kevin Robertson, 9:21 PM Thu 17 Mar 2011
James Spithill from Oracle Racing will be speaking at the Royal Akarana Yacht Club on Friday the 18th March 7pm. Everyone welcome to come along and here the past and present Americas Cup news. This includes both Flintstone and Facebook generations. The prizes for the recently completed Nexus Gold Cup will also be presented during the evening. ...[more]

Extreme 40's Oman - Dean Barker reports on Final Day By Dean Barker, 9:46 AM Fri 25 Feb 2011
Today was the final day in Oman and with 6 races anything could happen. We started the day well with 2 good races but a couple of average races dropped us back a bit from the leaders. However we finished strongly with a 2nd and then in the final double points race another 2nd place ...[more]

Extreme 40's Oman - Dean Barker reports on Day 4 By Dean Barker, 8:21 PM Thu 24 Feb 2011
Today was a great day for us on the water. We managed to win the first and last race of the day and had a 6,3,2,4,3,2 in between. This has elevated us up to 4th on the overall standings 18 points behind the leader, 11 points behind 2nd, and 7 behind 3rd. With 6 or 7 races still to go tomorrow and 11 points for a race win there is still plenty of potential to improve further with a strong day. ...[more]

Extreme 40's Oman - Dean Barker reports on Day 3 By Dean Barker, 8:25 PM Wed 23 Feb 2011
Today was the first day of Stadium Racing which is where the organisers pull the course into confined spaces and run very short tight races with a total duration of no more than 10-15 minutes. As you can imagine there is a huge emphasis on starts and boat positioning and as one of the other team members called it, 'this is the start of the crash and burn racing'. ...[more]

Dean Barker: Three practice races - one win in Extreme 40's By Dean Barker and Extreme 40 Media, 2:27 PM Sun 20 Feb 2011
Team New Zealand skipper, Dean Barker reports on the preliminaries for the Extreme 40 series in Oman, UAE Today we had three practice races as our final prep for the racing tomorrow. We sailed in a very difficult 6-12 knot onshore breeze which had big holes and shifts. ...[more]

Extreme 40's Oman - Dean Barker reports By Dean Barker, 9:33 PM Wed 16 Feb 2011
We have been in Oman now for three days preparing for the first event of the Extreme 40 Sailing Series. It will be raced in Muscat from 20-24. We are currently in Mussanah which is a marina 45 miles to the north where a number of the teams have been training for the last month. ...[more]

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