{"id":370868,"date":"2026-04-09T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370868\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T07:56:08","slug":"sailgp-rio-black-foils-strategist-liv-mackay-to-sail-for-france-in-brazil-no-firm-timeline-for-new-zealand-teams-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/370868\/","title":{"rendered":"SailGP Rio: Black Foils strategist Liv Mackay to sail for France in Brazil; no firm timeline for New Zealand team\u2019s return"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt was definitely very serious so I\u2019m really glad she\u2019s okay and, from what I understand, her recovery journey is going well. Obviously she needs some more time, so I feel really grateful for the opportunity to step in for her for this event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent some time with her over the past few weeks to learn how the dynamic is for her in this team and really try to do a good job for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

It sees the Kiwis and French join forces in multiple facets on the water, after salvageable parts of the Black Foils\u2019 boat were used to rebuild France\u2019s F50 foiling catamaran. With the league officials judging France were not the team at fault in the Auckland crash, they were given priority in the rebuilding process.<\/p>\n

The remaining parts of the Black Foils boat are currently in transit to the SailGP Technologies base in Southampton, but the New Zealand team are expected to get an entirely new boat for their return to the water.<\/p>\n

\"FranceFrance and the Black Foils collided during SailGP’s Auckland regatta in February. Both boats were badly damaged. Photo \/ SailGP<\/p>\n

There remains no clear timeline on when that will be, however members of the Black Foils shore crew will travel to England later this month to work with the team at SailGP Technologies on the delivery of the team\u2019s new F50.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really grateful for the opportunity. It\u2019s my first time in Rio and I\u2019m really looking forward to getting back on the water. It\u2019s a bit of a different circumstance than I was expecting, but I think it\u2019s a really positive step forward for everyone, so I\u2019m looking forward to the weekend,\u201d Mackay said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince the crash, I\u2019ve spent quite a lot of time talking with different people through support from our team and the league so I feel really positive about the weekend, really excited to get back on the water, and I think it\u2019s a really important period of time to just get back out there. I feel ready.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mackay won\u2019t be the only new face on board this weekend for the French, with Australian super-sub and former Team New Zealand America\u2019s Cup skipper Glenn Ashby stepping in as wing trimmer.<\/p>\n

Ashby filled the role for the Australians in the first two events after Iain Jensen suffered a knee injury, and now joins the French as a replacement for Leigh McMillan, who required surgery on his shoulder<\/a>. <\/p>\n

McMillan also suffered his injury in the Auckland crash, but it wasn\u2019t until weeks later that it was confirmed he would be sidelined by the damage.<\/p>\n

Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was definitely very serious so I\u2019m really glad she\u2019s okay and, from what I understand, her recovery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57538,51,7022,575,11783,803,3549,2837,1138,32851,2082,1221,11775,78,193951,76456,12023,661,117,111,43,139,7805,69,41140,1527,106586,18248,32850,95836,4412,165,8229,210,38707,61,12637,25535,1533,4576,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-370868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-aftermath","9":"tag-auckland","10":"tag-black","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-brought","13":"tag-continue","14":"tag-crash","15":"tag-during","16":"tag-firm","17":"tag-foils","18":"tag-for","19":"tag-france","20":"tag-french","21":"tag-in","22":"tag-janeiro","23":"tag-liv","24":"tag-mackay","25":"tag-major","26":"tag-new","27":"tag-new-zealand","28":"tag-news","29":"tag-newzealand","30":"tag-no","31":"tag-nz","32":"tag-regatta","33":"tag-return","34":"tag-rio","35":"tag-sail","36":"tag-sailgp","37":"tag-strategist","38":"tag-teams","39":"tag-their","40":"tag-they","41":"tag-through","42":"tag-timeline","43":"tag-to","44":"tag-together","45":"tag-waters","46":"tag-will","47":"tag-work","48":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}