{"id":4395,"date":"2026-08-03T15:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=4395"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:21:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:21:28","slug":"black-foils-on-crest-of-a-wave-in-fight-against-destructive-marine-trawling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=4395","title":{"rendered":"Black Foils on crest of a wave in fight against destructive marine trawling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand sailing team combine racing with campaigning for environmental and social impact<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSailing on the Solent was awesome, but our racing \u2026 not quite perfect,\u201d says Blair Tuke, co-chief executive of the Black Foils, New Zealand\u2019s SailGP team, after finishing fifth at last month\u2019s Great Britain Sail Grand Prix. It was only the team\u2019s second competitive outing of the season after the boat had to be \u201cpretty much rebuilt\u201d following a big crash in Auckland in February, which forced them to miss four races.<\/p>\n<p>But the team\u2019s work off the water hasn\u2019t stopped in the boatyard. Before the race in Portsmouth, which coincided with the beginning of National Marine Week in the UK, the Black Foils were awarded the Better Planet award in SailGP\u2019s Impact League that rewards teams for environmental and social impact alongside racing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/03\/black-foils-on-crest-of-a-wave-in-fight-against-destructive-marine-trawling\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/aug\/03\/black-foils-on-crest-of-a-wave-in-fight-against-destructive-marine-trawling' target='_blank'>Read the original article on www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand sailing team combine racing with campaigning for environmental and social impact \u201cSailing on the Solent was awesome, but our racing \u2026 not quite perfect,\u201d says Blair Tuke, co-chief executive of the Black Foils, New Zealand\u2019s SailGP team, after finishing fifth at last month\u2019s Great Britain Sail Grand Prix. It was only the team\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}